We demand a recount. The INRIX Traffic Scorecard says that Miami only has the 12th worst traffic congestion in the country. Anyone who has ever been stuck in Miami traffic knows it’s the worst thing ever. No, literally the worst thing ever. The official ranks of worst things ever might as…
Transportation in the City of Miami is about to become more of a shared experience. Following the lead of Miami Beach, the City announced that they’ll launch a car sharing program this summer and the Miami Herald reports the city also is looking into the possibility of a bike sharing…
When Carlos Bertonatti slammed into cyclist Christophe LeCanne on the Rickenbacker Causeway in January 2010, killing the 44-year-old on the spot, advocates begged the County to make the bike lanes safer. Nothing happened. This past February, almost the exact same tragedy repeated: This time, the driver was Michele Traverso and…
Pity Jorge Exposito. There, but for the grace of God, go you. Exposito shared with us his tale of highway toll woe. He owns a SunPass transponder, which he thought was replenished. But in late April, he got a letter from a collection agency telling him he owed $691.80. Before…
The facts seem pretty clear: On Feb. 15, Michele Traverso, a 25-year-old with a suspended license, slammed into two cyclists on the Rickenbacker Causeway after he’d spent a long night drinking in Coconut Grove. Traverso then sped away, leaving one of the cyclists, Aaron Cohen, a father of two, dying…
Miami’s roads are known for two things: insanely bad driving and fancy cars. It’s always a shame when the two combine, especially when a wreck involves somewhere in the neighborhood of $400,000 worth of automotive extravagance.Friday night out front of the Epic Hotel in downtown a Maserati GranTurismo S (worth…
What are you doing in this house, school bus? School buses don’t belong in houses. Go back on the street where you belong, school bus.Oh, it was all that asshole SUV’s fault? You really are a jerk, SUV. Thankfully, you didn’t cause any serious injuries to humans, SUV. Updated. …
Does your daily commute take your through the interchange of the Dolphin and Palmetto Expressways? Well, we’re sorry for your daily dose of traffic torture, but there’s some good news. The Florida Department of Transportation will pay you up to $75 a month to carpool. It’s true!…
Back in the ’60s, Coral Gables banned pickup trucks from being parked outside in residential neighborhoods and has stubbornly defended the zoning law ever since. But could a new era of pickup truck freedom dawn in the City Beautiful? Well, maybe, but the city continues to drag its feet, and…
Ultra Music Festival is taking it to the streets — literally. A few blocks of northbound lanes of Biscayne Boulevard will be closed Thursday night through early Monday morning. Plan your route accordingly, and as a favor to yourself and the drivers who can’t avoid it, consider staying out of…
The notorious red light cameras in North Bay Village see all and fine all for running a red light without discrimination, even those who no human traffic cop would dare right up. Like, for example, those taking part in a funeral procession. Yet, the cameras apparently made no exception for…
Miami loves its bold faced names almost as much as it hates its traffic, and today the sheer amount of star power in town may very well overwhelm our roadways. Not only is the leader of the free world making a visit to Coral Gables today, but Linsanity comes to…
Reporter Adrienne Pedersen was doing a boring little segment this morning on gas prices when more exciting news happened directly behind her. A car and a cab collided on camera as Pedersen gave her report, and the news reporter didn’t even blink. Watch the video below…
Michele Traverso, the driver responsible for a deadly hit-and-run accident on the Rickenbacker Causeway, made his first appearance in court this morning and voluntarily submitted to a drug test. Despite previous arrests for possession of marijuana and cocaine, Traverso’s drug test came back clean…
When police arrested 25-year-old Michele Traverso yesterday on charges that he fatally struck a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway before speeding away, Miami cyclists felt a tragic sense of déjà vu. Just over two years ago, police say another young driver named Carlos Bertonatti ran after fatally hitting another cyclist…
Aaron Cohen, one of the two bicyclist who were injured in an early morning hit-and-run car crash on the Rickenbacker Causeway on Wednesday morning, has died.Meanwhile, police have arrested the driver Michele Traverso, 25, after he turned himself in early this morning. Traverso was driving with a suspended license and…
Miami is infamous for its bad drivers. Climbing behind the wheel is a contact sport here, like running through Little Havana with an “I (heart) Fidel Castro” T-shirt on.So, prompted by a reader complaint, we requested records on the county’s most dangerous intersections. It seems the chances of getting into…
In South Florida, 92,112 workers take public transportation to work. Which sure sounds like a lot — and indeed leads the state in pure numbers — but with a workforce of more than 2,500,000 in the tri-county area, that means only 3.68 percent of workers use public transit, according to a new…
A Florida law requires all bicyclists to keep at least one hand on a handlebar while riding their bike at all times, which, of course, prevents show offs from looking totally awesome. Republican Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff may have been unsuccessful in her attempt to bring Las Vegas-style casinos to Florida…
For the second time in a matter of months a South Florida woman has been killed in after being run over by her own car. The latest incident happened Sunday around 11 p.m. in the 4200 block of Northwest Fourth Street in Miami according to The Miami Herald…
We’re not going to say that bicyclists are better than everyone. We’re just going to tell you that LeBron James rode his bicycle to work yesterday and then made one of the most awesome slam dunks in NBA history by literally jumping over an opponent. We’re going to let you…
It’s a slippery slope down the path of transportation socialism, ain’t it? First it starts with public buses, then the City of Miami Beach got a taste of bike sharing with DecoBike, and now the city is about to launch a car sharing service. The city has partnered with Hertz…
