Bloomfield Township to Add Safety Path on Telegraph Thanks to TAP Grant

Bloomfield Township provides security path to Telegraph because of TAP Grant

(SEMCOG, November 20, 2025)

Bloomfield Twp, MI – SEMCOG, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, has awarded $1,427,429 to Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) funding for a 1.4-mile Bloomfield Township pedestrian security venture alongside Telegraph Street between Golf Drive to the north and Mall Drive to the south, connecting folks to public transportation, jobs, neighborhoods, residences, parks and a college. It additionally supplies an important sidewalk connection to the Clinton River Path.

In honor of this venture, a ceremonial examine was offered on the Bloomfield board assembly on Monday, November 11.

“The addition of this security path will present a protected and accessible route for pedestrians, connecting residents to close by eating places, buying facilities and different native locations,” stated Bloomfield Township Supervisor Mike McCready. “By bettering walkability and increasing non-motorized transportation choices, this venture will enhance each security and high quality of life in Bloomfield Township,” stated McCready.

“We’d like to ensure we have now some funding out there to construct these essential connections – from sidewalks to our trails and our security paths,” stated Kevin Vettraino, SEMCOG Planning Director. “We additionally need to respect and acknowledge the allies we have now in Congress who carry nice assets to our communities. The necessity to enhance our transportation community is actual, and we’re going to do all the pieces we are able to to make sure there’s a program that can attain the whole area for years to come back,” Vettraino stated.

“Simply to talk briefly in regards to the council’s success with the primary Faucet grant that occurred final yr at Telegraph, Franklin and Sq. Lake,” stated Corey Almas, PE, director of Engineering and Environmental Providers. “As a result of success of that venture, we felt it was crucial to use for an additional TAP grant that might cowl the extension of northern Telegraph Street from Mall Drive to Golf Drive,” Almas stated.

“I come from native authorities,” stated Samantha Steckloff, state consultant, District 18. “You attempt to handle these funds as finest you possibly can, and it is actually unimaginable that you just take the time, that your workers takes the time, that every of you takes the time to go after these matching funds,” Steckloff stated.

“I am the chair of the Michigan Legislative Incapacity Caucus,” stated Sharon MacDonell, State Consultant, District 56. “Initiatives like this are actually essential to serving to individuals who cannot drive and who use public transportation, and so they really want to have the ability to get to and from our transit factors safely. So I am very completely happy to listen to about this, and I am positive it is going to profit seniors and folks with disabilities vastly, so thanks very a lot,” stated MacDonell.

Undertaking Highlights:

• Shut a 1.4 mile sidewalk opening.
• Connects a neighboring neighborhood (Pontiac) and has created a brand new security path.
• Connects to the Clinton River Path and the bigger Nice Lake-to-Lake Path system.
• Improves entry to native public transportation on the SMART 375 route (Pontiac to Taylor).

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