As another real estate boom rocks Miami and ever more South Florida newcomers pack into the ‘burbs, transit in Miami has never been a bigger topic. A new train service to Orlando is making national headlines while the county mayor pushes for better buses amid a Miami Herald series on…
If you’ve been following the development of All Aboard Florida you’ve probably thought to yourself at one time or another, “Wait, are they going to call it that?” The answer is no. You won’t be talking about jumping on the “All Aboard Florida train” to Orlando. In fact, the project…
Happy Halloween! And—more to the point for cycling enthusiasts and anyone trying to get around tonight: Happy last Friday of the month! It’s time for Critical Mass! Tonight’s group ride heads way over to Miami’s southwest and back, for a total of approximately 13 miles. The ride begins, like always,…
Working a minimum wage job in Florida can now no longer even afford you two hours worth of curbside parking in South Beach anymore. Starting on Monday, Miami Beach hiked parking prices for surface lots and curb side parking spaces across the city, but not all hikes were equal. The biggest…
One night in late June, Gus Kalogeras, a retired St. Thomas University dean, was driving south on U.S. 1 back to his home in Sunny Isles Beach. Just past Aventura Mall, he turned left on a yellow that quickly switched to red. A couple of weeks later, Kalogeras received…
Has there been a stupider political miscalculation in Miami-Dade over the past decade than the spread of red light cameras through out our various municipalities (well, ok, Marlins Park, but besides that)? Local governments thought they’d be a good way to keep streets safe (despite studies suggesting their were better…
Miamians like to joke that tourists hop in a cab at the airport, get dropped off in South Beach, and then never leave until they repeat the process in reverse. To be fair to those tourists, getting around Miami-Dade County can be confusing and daunting. We don’t make it simple…
It’s that time again — the last Friday of the month. Time for Critical Mass. And tonight the massive group bicycle ride heads north. Like, way north. After starting downtown, the ride heads west, along Flagler Avenue. At Northwest 22nd Avenue, in Little Havana, cyclists will turn north, passing through…
Well, the Venetian Causeway is still closed and plans for the fabled Baylink rail system are still firmly in the “maybe someday” file, but soon you’ll have an exciting new way to travel across the bay from Miami to Miami Beach. Car sharing service Car2Go will expand its service to…
Patrick Wanninkhof loved bicycling, beat boxing, and helping people. Wanninkhof had a megawatt smile, a mop of curly brown hair (sometimes), and an affinity for math and engineering; he grew up in Key Biscayne, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida, and then taught physics and computer science…
Miami is a city in love with its cars that barely knows how to drive. So it’s no surprise that many of us don’t know the laws regarding the safe and legal operation of a bicycle either. In fact, it seems like every time we post a story about a…
Welcome to another summer day, Miami. Today’s forecast: A relatively temperate high of 90, with temperature dipping into the mid-80s by early evening. Perfect weather, in other words, for joining a few dozen of your closest, sweatiest friends on a 16-mile group ride? Yep, it’s Critical Mass tonight. This evening’s…
Here’s a novel idea for how to slow the rising tolls across Miami Dade: Put them to a vote. A new Miami-based political action committee called Drivers Ready to Improve, Vote and Empower (DRIVE) wants an amendment to the Florida Constitution that would require any toll increase anywhere in Florida…
Miami-Dade county’s new transit director has big plans. While Alice Bravo, the city of Miami’s former deputy city manager, has several short-term projects in mind, her grand vision is sure to raise eyebrows in South Florida: Eventually, she hopes that the plans her and her team put in place in…
Eber Vasquez was killed while riding his bicycle in April of this year. Walter Reyes was killed while riding in January. Aaron Cohen was killed in February 2012, Christophe Le Canne in 2010. But in addition to those deaths, of course, are hundreds of unreported crashes between cars and bicycles…
Juan Mullerat argues that Calle Ocho is Miami’s most historic street, but sometime between now and the 1960s it was transformed into a three-lane highway to absorb the brunt of the city’s growing east-west commuters. “I’m driving down it down and I don’t see anybody walking, just cars,” Mullerat tells…
Around 8:40 Wednesday evening, not long after sunset, a 51-year-old woman was driving east on the Tuttle Causeway in a 2015 Chrysler van, towards Miami Beach. West of Alton Road a man was walking across the highway from south to north. He was hit by the Chrysler, his body launching…
For the last five years, justifiable-toll advocate Carlos Garcia felt like a lone crazy man screaming in the woods. “No one cared, no one was listening,” he says. But after Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) approved a new toll rebate program on Tuesday, Garcia believes the right people are finally listening—and…
Jon Ranellone was cycling home in South Beach around 1 am last Friday when a car slammed into him. The accident, in front of the Panera at 14th Street, threw him from his bike onto the asphalt. But that wasn’t the worst part of the ordeal, the video editor says…
In early November, with a new toll system about to launch on the 836 Expressway and the 112, Doral resident Alexander Gonzalez was worried. He was already paying some $50 each month on those roads, to get to and from work at a communications company in Coral Gables. The changes…
Not only has Miami’s Critical Mass bike ride grown to be one of the largest in the country, but its also just about the only one where you’ll occasionally catch an NBA champion peddling next to you. Dwyane Wade is a frequent rider, and has brought wife Gabrielle Union and…
Memorial Day weekend in South Beach. So many people. So many cars. So few parking spaces. Thus, a lot of towing. Six hundred twenty-three vehicles, actually, more than double the corresponding four-day period the week prior. “We want to make sure that residents’ quality of life is high,” says Saul…
