It’s only Thursday and the traffic in both Miami and Miami Beach has already reached nightmare status. It’s particularly bad this year considering one main link between the mainland and SoBe, the Venetian Causeway, is shuttered for construction. So if you’re about to get in your car this week to…
The old stereotype about the worst kind of Florida drivers is that they’re old snowbirds who have forgotten how to drive. The kind of person who drives 20 MPHs under the speed limit in the left lane with their turning signal accidentally on for 10 minutes. The latest analysis of…
It’s the day after the big day. That extra piece of turkey is sitting heavy in your stomach. Those three extra glasses of merlot are throbbing straight through to your brain. If you’re a lunatic, you’re eagerly planning some kind of marathon shopping spree that will take you to hordes…
Almost 20 million people live in Florida. Last year, almost 100 million more visited. This is a state, in other words, with a whole lot of people who need to move around — especially in and around hyper-congested South Florida and family vacation-mecca Orlando. As any Floridian knows, public transportation…
You ever find yourself stuck on the Palmetto during rush hour and think, “Jeez, their can’t be traffic anywhere else in the country worse than this.” Well, technically, there are 19 stretches of road in the country with worst traffic. Not that that’s much of a consultation, and indeed a…
Every year during Art Basel, traffic between Miami Beach and the mainland becomes a vivid nightmare straight out of Hieronymus Bosch’s imagination. And Basel’s 2015 installment is going to be the worst traffic ever, as the Venetian Causeway — a preferred route of many to the Beach — remains closed…
A day after we tested out eight different ways to commute through Miami, Uber is introducing a new one. The increasingly popular car-by-app service is set to launch its UberPOOL offering in Miami. UberPOOL is essentially carpooling through Uber. A user indicates we’re they want to go and the app…
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…
