You can’t miss them. The new signs, on Lincoln Road at Meridian and Washington avenues, are massive, and their message is loud and unambiguous. “NO BICYCLES ON LINCOLN ROAD,” they flash in lighted block letters. “BICYCLES PROHIBITED 9 A.M. to 2 A.M.” The electronic signs went up a couple of…
If you see ghosts and goblins flying around town tonight, don’t be alarmed. Demonic spirits haven’t slipped out of Hell and stolen hipsters’ fixies. Instead, it’s just a special Halloween edition of Critical Mass. That’s right. The year’s most frightening holiday happens to fall on the last Friday of the…
A man performs a stunt on his motorcycle.Motorcyclists performing death-defying stunts at high speeds while weaving through traffic on I-95 are not, unfortunately, an unusual sight in Miami, but last night those tricks proved deadly for one man. Police say the man, either 25 or 26 years old, lost control…
Yesterday Eric Arem, a Hollywood resident, won a court ruling: His red light camera citation was thrown out. At issue was that Arem hadn’t actually received the ticket from the City of Hollywood. Instead, it was issued by a Tempe, Arizona-based company, American Traffic Solutions (ATS). ATS operates the majority…
The news hit Miami Beach residents back in April like an early season tropical depression: the decaying Venetian Causeway would have to close for the better part of a year for a rebuilding project. For residents who’ve lived through more than a year of Alton Road traffic-pocalypse, losing the causeway…
The afternoon of May 31, 2008, a vigorous 95-year-old named Alice Mathas spent hours walking around South Beach with her son Paul. Around 7:45 the pair boarded a Miami-Dade bus headed back to their apartment in Bal Harbour. They didn’t make it. As Alice started down the aisle of the…
The Miami Beach bike-sharing program formerly known as DecoBike will finally expand across the bridge to the city of Miami in November, but the expanded service area isn’t the only thing changing. Thanks to a sponsorship from CitiBank, the service will now be known as CitiBike, which is also the…
Anyone who’s tried to drive through South Beach in the past year can tell you that Alton Road has been a construction-induced nightmare: snarled bumper-to-bumper traffic and nearly impossible pedestrian access to shops and restaurants. Good news! The work on Alton is nearly done. But that means the next phase…
DecoBike, Miami Beach’s 3-year-old bike-share program, has been a stirring success, with more than 1.5 million rides logged on the blue-and-silver cruisers just last year. But spend half an hour watching cyclists zipping around South Beach and you’re about as likely to spot a bear on a unicycle as you…
If your Friday night plan was to skip traffic and sneak across the Venetian Causeway to Miami Beach, you might reconsider. The narrow, two-lane toll road will host this month’s tour de Critical Mass. It’s the first time in five months that Critical Mass will cross the causeways and maneuver…
Miami may be looking to the past for its public transportation future. In the ’20s and ’30s, streetcars zoomed through the city of Miami, and now city commissioners have renewed a push to bring them back. According to Miami Today, the plan had gained steam back in 2006 but lost…
As of last October 1, texting while driving in Florida is illegal. But almost one year after the ban went into effect, it’s clear police across the state — and in Miami-Dade County — are rarely enforcing the law. Only 352 texting while driving citations have been issued in the…
Being a hotel worker is hard — low pay, long hours, ungrateful clientele. But for hundreds of workers at the Fontainebleau and theEden Roc in Miami Beach, life just got that much harder: Because of a change in city parking policy, employees are no longer able to use a nearby…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. LeBron is gone. No longer will we have wet dreams about attending Critical Mass and spotting King James next to us in the peloton. But Miami’s monthly bike celebration continues without him. Tonight’s ride will take cyclists 11.5 miles along…
At a breakfast networking event in Wynwood this morning, Miami Parking Authority chief Art Noriega, addressing the ongoing parking changes that have rankled the neighborhood’s businesses, called Wynwood a kind of “Wild Wild West” of parking and said his agency is working to refine its system. “We knew that the…
It’s the tenth anniversary of Allstate Insurance’s “Americas Best Drivers” list, and as usual, South Florida cities find themselves near the bottom. Of the 200 cities ranked, Miami has the 186th “best” drivers, or 15th worst. Meanwhile, Hialeah came in at 189th, or 12th worst. Both cities have fallen further…
Wednesday evening, a cop in Key Largo saw two motorcycles whiz by on Overseas Highway at more than 100 mph. The cop, Dep. Brian Cross, decided it was too dangerous to pursue the two bikes, so he radioed an alert instead. Half an hour later, one of the motorcyclists attracted…
Two bills to prohibit red-light traffic cameras failed to pass Florida’s legislature this spring. And now Miami-Dade officials have taken the initiative to place an additional 150 cameras at intersections throughout the county. See also: Rick Scott Signs Bill To Make Red-Light Cameras Slightly Less Bogus…
Merely owning a car in Florida could cost you $500 extra a year than it would in other states. In fact, according to a new analysis from BankRate.com, Florida is the third most expensive state in the nation to own a car…
Two people were injured this morning after a car somehow ended up plowing through the front door of Lincoln Road souvenir shop Alvin’s Island. Details are short at the moment, but the two victims were walking by the store when the vehicle apparently lost control. The driver of the red…
Walking down the western sidewalk of Ocean Drive isn’t so much a leisurely stroll as it is a maneuver through the middle of a never-ending string of crowded restaurants. That’s why Miami Beach commissioners are considering a way to eliminate the cramped atmosphere while preserving the strip’s cafe culture. According…
Let’s be honest: July was a crappy month for Miami. Bizarrely, the bad news seemed to arrive every Friday in this, the sweltering summer suck-hole of the year. On Friday, July 4, a happy holiday became a horror show when four boaters died on Biscayne Bay. A week later, LeBron…
