The city has received a $1.7 million federal transportation grant to help improve pedestrian access to Union Station.

The grant will pay for improvements to a 1,620-foot stretch of Asylum and Farmington avenues. The upgrades will help create “safer, convenient and attractive routes to the station from surrounding residential, shopping and employment districts,” city officials said Wednesday.

For more on this story, visit: Hartford: City Gets $1.7 Million Federal Grant For Street Improvements Near Union Station – Hartford Courant.