It’s the Friday of the month, which means the ride is on tonight, and it’s a winding one. More significantly, tonight’s Critical Mass will cycle across the Venetian Causeway to South Beach — the last time cyclists can use the historic causeway before it closes on Monday for months of…
Around 10:30 p.m. on a Monday late last month, Eber Vasquez pedaled north from his apartment on NE 23rd Street and onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The 25-year-old, clean-cut Guatemalan immigrant with a neat goatee was still in his work clothes from the day’s painting job. Across his back was…
Aaron Cohen. Christophe Le Canne. Walter Reyes. This evening, in a group bicylce ride leaving from Crandon Park, hundreds of people will ride for them, and for all the other cyclists who have lost their lives while riding in Miami and around the world. “(The ride will) honor those that have…
Miami gets a lot of well-deserved flak for its molasses-slow move toward becoming a bike-friendly metropolis, but there’s one bustling stretch of road that’s already full of commuters on two wheels. The scenic Venetian Causeway sees thousands of daily cyclists gliding over the main low-speed link between the mainland and…
Barely three weeks ago, the Florida Supreme Court delivered yet another legal blow to the highly controversial red light cameras that have spawned like love bugs across the Sunshine State in recent years. The highest court in the state refused to reconsider a judgment that Hollywood’s cameras are illegal. But…
Trolleys aren’t exactly cutting edge, but apparently they’re the future of public transport in two Miami-Dade towns. Both Miami and Miami Beach have discussed the idea of expanding their free trolley systems this month. The Miami Beach plan would be more dramatic by expanding what was meant as a temporary…
As if you needed another reason to add to the list of way driving in Miami is a pain, InsuranceQuotes.com reports that Miami-Dade has the most expensive average car insurance rates in Florida. Miamians pay 54 percent more than your average Floridian, which is even more depressing when you learn…
Every year since 2011, Walk Score has released their rankings of America’s most walkable cities. Every year Miami lands in the top 10. Every year actual Miamians scratch their heads and think, “Wait, that can’t be right. I don’t walk anywhere.” Walk Score, owned by online real estate database company Redfin, remains…
Miami has the 7th worst traffic of any major metro area in America according to a new analysis from the makers of TomTom GPS. That’s not exactly big news. Everyone knows we’re plagued by bad traffic here, and we were ranked in the same 7th place position on last year’s…
Good morning, Miami — hope you’re not planning on driving anywhere today! Let’s review just a few of the interesting things that are happening in your city today: The Miami Open, one of the world’s most popular tennis tournaments, continues with early round play in Key Biscayne. Critical Mass, the…
According to Best Doctor, Miami is the 8th “most bike-friendly” city in America, only behind a handful of cycling meccas like Portland, Oakland and DC. To determine this the analysis graded each of America’s 52 largest cities on three different criteria. Miami actually did horribly in two of the three,…
Talks of turning a stretch of Biscayne Boulveard into a pedestrian-friendly grand promenade have been in the works for a few year, and now we’ve finally got an idea of what that might look like. The Miami Downtown Development Authority has released a video rendering of architects Behar-Font & Partners…
Ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft continue to operate successfully across Florida despite the fact they’re technically doing so illegally in many counties. An attempt last year to legalize the services statewide fizzled out in Tallahassee, but two new bills filed in the state senate and house signal that the legislature…
Even in a city where deadly hit-and-runs are a weekly occurrence, a vehicular homicide this weekend was particularly brutal. Early Sunday morning, 39-year-old Takesha Shawanna Hayes — who used a motorized wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis — was hit by a car as she rolled through a Little Haiti intersection…
In response to an all too regular string of accidents involving drunk drivers and bicyclists on the Rickenbacker Causeway, police will set up a DUI sobriety checkpoint on the bridge to Key Biscayne tonight. The Miami Police and Miami-Dade Police departments will join forces for the checkpoint. See also: Another…
Since launching last May and June respectively, Lyft and Uber continue to thrive in Miami-Dade County. This is despite the fact they continue to do so illegally. No, you didn’t miss any news. There have been no changes to the county ordinances. Well, now the owner of a limousine service…
Two things everyone knows for sure: Miami is surrounded by a lot of water, and Miami has major transportation problems. Well, at a recent planning and zoning meeting, the City of Miami Commission discussed the possibility of looking beyond buses and trains to fix transportation…
Critical Mass returns to Miami tonight in what is sure to be an especially emotional ride. Last week, a local cyclist was killed and another seriously injured in the latest hit-and-run on the Rickenbacker Causeway. The deadly accident was the fourth on the bridge linking downtown to Key Biscayne in…
Granted, we don’t need to give Miamians much of an excuse to stay out late on Saturday and sleep in on Sunday morning. But if you’re not running the Miami Marathon and live around the affected area, it might be the best to stay in. The annual marathon will close…
Update: The cyclist killed this morning has been identified as Walter Reyes. His cycling partner, Henry Hernandez, is in serious condition at a local hospital. Police say the driver fled the scene but later returned, and investigators are looking into whether he was intoxicated. For cyclists around South Florida, this…
In December, Citi Bike crossed the bridge from South Beach to the mainland and celebrated its 50 new stations with a party at Bayfront Park. Some residents in Brickell haven’t been celebrating the arrival of the bike share, though. In fact, so many residents complained about the 38-foot racks eating…
In October, New Times published an investigation chronicling a rash of passenger injuries on Miami-Dade County’s public bus system — and worse, the county’s habit of retaining bad drivers. Through the first eight months of 2014, we found, county buses hit pedestrians and bicyclists seven times in “preventable” accidents; 97…
