Walking to school for Shelby Township junior high and high school students along 25 Mile in northern Macomb County will soon get easier and safer thanks to a $1.3 million pedestrian bridge township officials plan to build.

Construction will start next year on the bridge over the Middle Branch of the Clinton River, east of Van Dyke Avenue and west of M-53. It will close one of the last sidewalk gaps on the north side of 25 Mile Road between Jewell Road and Shelby Road, allowing students to walk to William E. Malow Junior High and Eisenhower High School.

A $817,980 grant to Shelby Township by the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments will pay for a majority of the $1.3 million project.

Brian Pawlik, a planner for SEMCOG, said the pedestrian bridge is the type of project that helps h

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