Public Radio Tulsa
By Cassidy Mudd
August 24, 2022
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Oklahoma on Tuesday to highlight a $10 million federal grant awarded for a major infrastructure project in west Tulsa. The project will reconstruct the area of West 51st Street to reconnect neighborhoods cut off after the construction of U.S. 75. Secretary Buttigieg said the project will address safety and convivence, and will help to create jobs for the area. "We're eager to see this to get done as quickly as possible — in the stretch while it's under construction, the good jobs that it will create," Buttigieg explained. "And then as soon as it's finished, the difference it's going to make for neighborhoods that have literally been waiting for something like this for decades."
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