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…
So you’ve heard about All Aboard Florida, the private railroad line that will connect Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach to Orlando set to be completed in 2017. Perhaps you’ve imagined one day ditching your car in favor of a ticket on the train for your next trip to…
It’s the Friday of the month, which means the ride is on tonight, and it’s a winding one. More significantly, tonight’s Critical Mass will cycle across the Venetian Causeway to South Beach — the last time cyclists can use the historic causeway before it closes on Monday for months of…
Around 10:30 p.m. on a Monday late last month, Eber Vasquez pedaled north from his apartment on NE 23rd Street and onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The 25-year-old, clean-cut Guatemalan immigrant with a neat goatee was still in his work clothes from the day’s painting job. Across his back was…
Aaron Cohen. Christophe Le Canne. Walter Reyes. This evening, in a group bicylce ride leaving from Crandon Park, hundreds of people will ride for them, and for all the other cyclists who have lost their lives while riding in Miami and around the world. “(The ride will) honor those that have…
Miami gets a lot of well-deserved flak for its molasses-slow move toward becoming a bike-friendly metropolis, but there’s one bustling stretch of road that’s already full of commuters on two wheels. The scenic Venetian Causeway sees thousands of daily cyclists gliding over the main low-speed link between the mainland and…
Barely three weeks ago, the Florida Supreme Court delivered yet another legal blow to the highly controversial red light cameras that have spawned like love bugs across the Sunshine State in recent years. The highest court in the state refused to reconsider a judgment that Hollywood’s cameras are illegal. But…
Trolleys aren’t exactly cutting edge, but apparently they’re the future of public transport in two Miami-Dade towns. Both Miami and Miami Beach have discussed the idea of expanding their free trolley systems this month. The Miami Beach plan would be more dramatic by expanding what was meant as a temporary…
As if you needed another reason to add to the list of way driving in Miami is a pain, InsuranceQuotes.com reports that Miami-Dade has the most expensive average car insurance rates in Florida. Miamians pay 54 percent more than your average Floridian, which is even more depressing when you learn…
Every year since 2011, Walk Score has released their rankings of America’s most walkable cities. Every year Miami lands in the top 10. Every year actual Miamians scratch their heads and think, “Wait, that can’t be right. I don’t walk anywhere.” Walk Score, owned by online real estate database company Redfin, remains…
Miami has the 7th worst traffic of any major metro area in America according to a new analysis from the makers of TomTom GPS. That’s not exactly big news. Everyone knows we’re plagued by bad traffic here, and we were ranked in the same 7th place position on last year’s…
Good morning, Miami — hope you’re not planning on driving anywhere today! Let’s review just a few of the interesting things that are happening in your city today: The Miami Open, one of the world’s most popular tennis tournaments, continues with early round play in Key Biscayne. Critical Mass, the…
According to Best Doctor, Miami is the 8th “most bike-friendly” city in America, only behind a handful of cycling meccas like Portland, Oakland and DC. To determine this the analysis graded each of America’s 52 largest cities on three different criteria. Miami actually did horribly in two of the three,…
Talks of turning a stretch of Biscayne Boulveard into a pedestrian-friendly grand promenade have been in the works for a few year, and now we’ve finally got an idea of what that might look like. The Miami Downtown Development Authority has released a video rendering of architects Behar-Font & Partners…
Ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft continue to operate successfully across Florida despite the fact they’re technically doing so illegally in many counties. An attempt last year to legalize the services statewide fizzled out in Tallahassee, but two new bills filed in the state senate and house signal that the legislature…
Even in a city where deadly hit-and-runs are a weekly occurrence, a vehicular homicide this weekend was particularly brutal. Early Sunday morning, 39-year-old Takesha Shawanna Hayes — who used a motorized wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis — was hit by a car as she rolled through a Little Haiti intersection…
