When it comes to the future of public transit in Miami-Dade, one thing we’re not suffering for is ideas. Oh, people have lots of ideas. Of course, ideas require studies, and those requires agreements between various local governments and agencies. Then there’s the process of figuring out which ideas are…
How bad is the nightmarish grind of traffic in Kendall? It’s so awful that a group of Kendall residents is demanding a drastic solution: Stop building in the area altogether until mass transit improves. Late last month, the ten-member board of the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations unanimously voted on a…
At the moment, drivers have a single direct option to get to South Beach: The Julia Tuttle Causeway. With the Venetian Causeway still days away from re-opening after a months long closure to fix structural problem, a portion of I-395 between the Palmetto Expressway and the MacArthur Causeway experienced structural…
Miami cyclists finally have a reason to celebrate. The main bicycle link between the mainland and Miami Beach, the Venetian Causeway, will reopen in a little over a week after a nine-month closure for repairs. Karim Nahim, the manager of the Miami Bike Shop, says the store is already feeling…
2015 was a record-breaking year for hit-and-run accidents in the state of Florida last year. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that the state had 92,623 hit-and-run accidents last year, about an 8,000 accident rise since 2014. That resulted in more than 19,000 injuries and a total of 186 fatalties. 18,345 hit-and-runs…
Miami Beach has spent much of February touting its plans to become a more bike-friendly city and splashing bright green paint on one prominent bike lane. So it was curious that today the city’s official Twitter account promised aggressive action against cyclists who dare to lock up to a street sign…
Check your calendars and grease up your gears — or point your car in the opposite direction, if you’re not of in the spokes-and-pedals crowd. It’s the last Friday of the month, which means hundreds of cyclists in Critical Mass will rolling through city streets at rush hour tonight. The…
Anjali Ramkisson, the a fourth-year neurology resident at Jackson Health System who was caught on camera trashing an Uber in Brickell, appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America today to apologize for her actions. The 30-year-old claims she upset that day after her father wound up in the hospital, and her boyfriend…
Downtown Miami has changed immensely in the last twenty years, shifting from a sleepy business district to bustling bayfront of condo skyscrapers, museums and arenas. But one thing has stayed constant: The traffic clogged artery of Biscayne Boulevard dividing most of downtown from the waterfront. Next week, city commissioners will…
A video currently going viral purports to show a woman trashing an Uber driver’s car near Mary Brickell Village over the weekend after a disagreement. According to YouTube user Juan Cinco’s description of events, he and his friends had ordered an Uber through the app, when the woman in the video…
Last week, Uber e-mailed its Miami-Dade customers to not so subtly threaten to pull out of the county if the County Commission passed a ordinance the rider-sharing company viewed as unfavorable. Well, at today’s Commission meeting that ordinance’s sponsor, Chairman Jean Monestime announced that he was pulling the legislation. “Based on…
The dirtbikes, ATVs and motorcycles came to South Florida by the hundreds yesterday, popping wheelies and darting through traffic as they sped across Broward County and then south in to Miami. Police mostly left the mass ride alone as confused motorists took to social media in bafflement. The ride wasn’t…
Another reason why owning a Lamborghini in South Beach is no longer worth it: can you really trust the valets to handle your car with care? According to a few recounts on social media, back on December 29th a valet was tasked with parking a red Lamborghini on South Beach,…
Uber continues to thrive in Miami-Dade despite the fact its technically illegal. After some early attempts to get the ride-sharing service out of town after its initial launch, Mayor Carlos Gimenez decided to let the company, and its competitor Lyft, continue to operate in a legal gray area. On January…
Anyone whose spent time walking around Miami has on occasion spotted an unexplained pair of heels left sitting in the streets. We’re never quite sure how they get there, but shoes on the street here isn’t an unusual sight. Unless its hundred of shoes sitting on the Turnpike. That’s what happened…
Just after 12:30 a.m. last Wednesday, a 23-year-old chef named Alexandra Lefler entered the northbound I-95 express lanes near Miami Gardens Drive — heading in entirely the wrong direction. Minutes later, she slammed head-on into a Hyundai, killing all four passengers and herself in one of the grisliest accidents in…
Ever since Miami Vice depicted Sonny Crockett cruising around town in a Ferrari Daytona, high-powered luxury sports cars have been an unshakable facet of Miami’s cultural identity (or, at least, the stereotypical postcard version of it). It seems music videos filmed down here are required to include at least one candy-colored…
If there’s one advantage traditional taxis have over Uber, it’s that their rates always remain the same. Not true for Uber. When the ratio between passengers requesting rides and the number of available drivers in an area become untenable, the “ride sharing” app jacks up prices and informs riders they’ll have…
Today, the site of the MiamiCentral train station is a giant pit filled with concrete pilings and buzzing construction equipment just across from County Hall on NW 1st Avenue. The nine-acre complex will eventually be the home station for the Brightline, the new Orlando-to-Miami passenger train service. And it’s now…
Public transit in Miami-Dade already has so many issues when it comes to running in the daytime that discussing the possibility of expanded services during late-night hours seems like wishful thinking. To Miami-Dade Transit’s credit, they do expand certain services into the wee hours of the morning during special events, but…
Ken Bereski was cycling home in South Beach around 10:45 p.m. last Thursday when he heard a car horn honk. He went on the defensive and prepared for the worst. Ten seconds later, a car slammed into him from behind, hurling him to the ground. The crash, on Collins Ave…
The most glaring missing option in Miami’s public transit arsenal: an easy and effective mass public transit system that connects Miami Beach to the mainland. Plans have been discussed for decades with no results. Well, now Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine says his city will take immediate steps towards starting…
