HARRISONBURG, Va – The City of Harrisonburg will soon receive federal funding to allow a key infrastructure improvement project to move forward in the downtown area.

Virginia U-S Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced this week that Harrisonburg will get over 14 million dollars to support the City’s Downtown Streetscape & Mobility Transformation project.

City Communications Director Mike Parks says he is thrilled about this funding because the project has been in the works but there had been no funding for it.

The project will convert a lane of U.S. Route 11 to a two-way separated bicycle area between the intersections of Main Street and Noll Drive and Grattan Street and Liberty Street. A shared use path will also be constructed along Main Street between Grattan Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

The project will also include additional pedestrian, bicycle, and intersection improvements to improve safety for the community and will be transformative for the Liberty Street Corridor and Downtown.