PORT HURON — City officials are expected to pick a preferred option to redesign Huron Avenue by the end of the summer, coinciding with . A has met twice to consider five options identified by the Michigan Department of Transportation. Those options vary in how they’d arrange travel lanes, parking, and more as part of the project on that section of Main Street from the Black River to Glenwood Avenue.
And so far, according to the city, stakeholders may be leaning toward one alternative that incorporates a road diet redesign and new buffered bike lanes while maintaining parallel parking. “We’re removing or replacing the pavement, the curb and gutter, the traffic signals, the storm sewer, the streetlights, landscaping, everything,” Thomas Anderson, the project’s manager for MDOT, told roughly 40 attendees at a meeting with the downtown business community on Wednesday. “We’re also upgrading the sidewalk areas to be ADA compliant.
” While plans call for the addressing underground infrastructure along Main Street, also including water main work amid MDOT’s reconstruction, officials said there was a short variety of details they are still working out. On Wednesday, Anderson broke some of those down, as well as the outcome to a community survey on project details completed this spring. However, because many of those potential layouts include a road diet — a reduction in travel lanes aimed at safely slowing the flow of traffic — he said the project would require .
