Mapped record
915
Crash points currently mapped from available Port Huron exports across the years in this project dataset.
Political organizing and civic education for Port Huron
Demand more from Port Huron than dangerous streets, exclusionary zoning, and expensive decline.
Port Huron Urbanist turns local evidence into local pressure. We use Strong Towns, new urbanism, parking reform, and neighborhood-scale organizing to push for a city that is safer to cross, easier to live in, and more affordable to sustain.
Crash costs
17.7M
Estimated FHWA comprehensive crash cost captured by records that include usable injury-severity labels.
Local urgency
40%+
Of local streets rated in poor condition by PASER, underscoring how overbuilt infrastructure strains the city budget.
Movement brief
Port Huron deserves a politics of repair rather than a politics of resignation. That means treating crash patterns as design failures, treating zoning as a civic choice rather than a law of nature, and treating every strip of excess pavement as a long-term maintenance burden. This site is built as an organizing document first and a brochure second.
Platform
A local urbanist platform for safety, solvency, and everyday dignity.
Dangerous by design
Complete Streets
Port Huron’s most dangerous corridors are not failing because residents behave badly. They are failing because they were engineered to move cars quickly, forgive wide turns, and force people walking or biking to negotiate hostile crossings. A complete-streets agenda starts by treating safety as a design responsibility rather than a moral lecture.
We demand street designs that calm traffic, shorten crossings, organize turning movements, and stop widening pavement that the city cannot safely maintain. When more than 40 percent of city streets are already rated in poor condition by PASER, overbuilt infrastructure is not only unsafe. It is fiscally irresponsible.
Missing middle, not missing neighbors
Housing and Zoning Reform
Port Huron’s historic parcel fabric was built for small lots, mixed use, corner stores, accessory dwellings, and ordinary neighborhood density. The modern suburban code works against that inheritance by requiring too much land, too much parking, and too much separation between homes, shops, and daily life.
We support reduced lot-size minimums, lighter lot-coverage limits, smaller minimum dwelling sizes, the elimination of parking mandates, and legal space for duplexes, fourplexes, courtyard apartments, and mixed-use infill. More homes in more places is a walkability strategy as much as a housing strategy.
Protection, not paint
Safe Bicycle Infrastructure
Port Huron should not ask residents to share fast, wide arterials with heavy traffic and call that bicycle access. If the city is serious about safety, access, and household affordability, it needs a connected network that gives children, older adults, and everyday riders a realistic alternative to driving.
We advocate for a citywide system of safe, separated bicycle infrastructure that connects neighborhoods to schools, downtown, the waterfront, parks, and daily destinations. A serious bicycle network is not a recreational amenity. It is public safety infrastructure.
Why Demand More
Because small-city decline is not inevitable. It is often the result of repeated public choices.
Port Huron can choose safer street geometry, more homes on existing lots, less wasteful parking, and a transportation system that does not force every household into higher car costs. Those are local policy choices. They can be changed locally as well.
Street safety improves when design slows conflict points instead of blaming road users after the fact.
Mixed-use infill and missing-middle housing support walkability, neighborhood commerce, and municipal productivity.
Parking reform helps redirect land and capital away from empty asphalt and toward homes, businesses, and tax base.
Separated bicycle infrastructure widens mobility choices for people who cannot or do not want to drive every trip.
New fiscal tool
See which Port Huron parcels generate the most value per acre.
Our new value-per-acre page uses parcel-level local data to show why traditional downtown form is so fiscally productive and why setback, parking, and lot-coverage rules often block the very pattern the city should want more of.
Explore value per acreNew advocacy page
Push for a stronger 2026 master plan before the June 30 comment deadline.
The new master plan page brings together our concerns about weak zoning reform, vague street-safety language, and the gap between what residents said in surveys and what the draft currently delivers.
Review the master plan updateVisible crashes
915
Vehicle
909
Pedestrian
4
Bicycle
2
Severity legend and cost basis
Fatality
$15,988,000 each
0 crashes
$0
Serious injury
$1,705,100 each
2 crashes
$3,410,200
Minor injury
$384,000 each
16 crashes
$6,144,000
Possible injury
$204,600 each
21 crashes
$4,296,600
No apparent injury
$18,100 each
210 crashes
$3,801,000
Marker legend
Bicycle
Circle markers identify bicycle crashes.
Pedestrian
Diamond markers identify pedestrian crashes.
Vehicle
Square markers identify vehicle crashes.
Most common visible crash patterns
Angle
251
Rear-End
213
Sideswipe - Same Direction
152
Single Motor Vehicle
111
Case for change
Port Huron needs a public conversation that links design, budgets, and everyday life.
Street safety
Crash clusters point to repeated design conflicts, not isolated bad luck. That makes them a planning problem as much as an enforcement problem.
Fiscal reality
Every wide lane, oversized intersection, and parking-heavy corridor creates long-term maintenance obligations that a small city has to carry for decades.
Coalition building
Urbanist reform becomes politically durable when residents, merchants, and neighborhood advocates can point to shared local evidence and common goals.
Organize
Turn the evidence into meetings, comments, walk audits, and local campaigns.
Use this website as a common brief for neighbors, civic groups, local businesses, planners, and elected officials. The goal is not simply to describe what is wrong. The goal is to organize around corridor-by-corridor improvements and code changes that make Port Huron more walkable, safe, and affordable.
Use the crash map in public comment, neighborhood meetings, and corridor walk audits.
Connect street safety to land use, fiscal stewardship, and household affordability.
Bring Strong Towns, new urbanist, parking reform, and housing reform language into local campaigns.
Focus on specific intersections, specific code changes, and specific design standards that Port Huron can change now.