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…
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…
