“I’m a hot, sexy chick, and I don’t like people fucking with me.” Such is the battle call of “Jozy” — born Ira Deford — a preop South Beach transsexual who this month took a historic stand in traffic court after bashing the side mirror of a blood bank’s bus…
Driving through South Florida is about to get a little more expensive. Toll roads operated by the Florida Department of Transportation will see toll raises put in place by June 30, 2012. That includes the Florida Turnpike, the Sawgrass Expressway and Alligator Alley. Express lanes on I-95 and road that…
From red-light cameras to toll lanes popping up on roads you’ve traveled free of charge for years, Florida is always busy devising ways to get over on drivers. Here’s the thing: Just ’cause the state — or its officers — does it, doesn’t mean it’s legal. A class-action suit filed…
Alberto De Jesus Coteron Oliva, 19, tried to pull his best The Fast and the Furious moves over the weekend. Now he sits in jail for killing three teenage passengers in his car Sunday night and fleeing after the accident…
It’s been a strange week for Miami Heat star-turned-executive Alonzo Mourning. He was involved in an alleged hit-and-run accident, with the other driver filing a lawsuit. He then hosted his annual Zo’s Summer Grove charity weekend only to have Dave Chappelle involved in a metaphoric on-stage car crash. Now he…
A few months back, Riptide wrote about Ken Bereski, an IT consultant who’s become the Howard Beale to Miami’s cyclists who deal daily with life-threateningly awful drivers. Bereski was mad as hell, so he strapped cameras to his bike and started filming all the dangerous driving.Well this month, Bereski got…
Warning: walking in South Florida may be dangerous, as if you already weren’t aware. According to a new report by transportation reform group Transportation for America, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Palm Beach metro area is the third most dangerous city for pedestrians in the entire county, and Florida cities dominate the list…
Well, that didn’t take long.It’s only been a few weeks since DecoBike installed its eco-friendly beach cruisers all over South Beach, yet someone has already hacked one in half with a saw.But despite the vandalism — and some customer confusion over when to return the silver bicycles — DecoBike seems…
If this were any other city in the world, the sight of a Playboy Playmate in six-inch stilettos and skintight jeans wobbling down the street on a beach cruiser would be an odd way of unveiling a new bike share.But this is Miami Beach. And despite our recent criticism of…
Just about everyone with a cerebral cortex agrees the planet is getting warmer, and we driver assholes are the ones to blame. So it’s hard to hate on efforts that encourages us to ditch our gas-guzzlers and put some effort into getting around town. But we’ll make an exception for…
It’s late on Super Bowl Sunday when a sedan barrels through the bike lane on 16th Street at Alton Road, right at cyclist Ken Bereski. Bereski slams on his handbrakes and swerves. The car squeals to a halt inches from his tire. “Learn to drive!” Bereski hollers. “You got a problem?”…
Traffic was snarled this morning in downtown after a man died in a car crash after his car was hit by another vehicle traveling the wrong way down the MacArthur Causeway. The accident happened at about 3:20 a.m. when 22-year-old Omar Bravo was driving westward on the eastbound lanes of…
There are certain things that studies and data analysis don’t really need to tell us, like, for example, that the commute-time traffic in Miami is pretty horrible. Yet, whenever these scientist or mathematicians or data-obsessed journalists tell us something we already know, and perhaps rank it, we feel validated. “See,…
Thirty-two percent of all traffic-related deaths in 2008, the most recent year for which statistics are available, were caused by drunk drivers. Several more were caused by drivers under the influence of drugs. That means more than 32 percent of traffic-related deaths could have been avoided if drivers didn’t get…
If state senator Evelyn Lynn has her way, there will be no more rush-hour digital hankypanky on Florida highways. In fact, there would be no more digital anything allowed while driving in the Sunshine State.Lynn’s recently introduced Senate Bill 80 would ban “text messaging, e-mail, instant messaging, or paging, while…
In a nice break from Britto-mobiles and Stephen Gamson Lambos, electric car makers Tesla have unveiled a car collaboration with an artist that doesn’t offend our sensibilities. They commissioned painter Laurence Gartel to design a costume wrap for their Roadster model…
We’ve given up on Miami — home of bloodthirsty drivers and bureaucrats too inept to implement bike lanes — ever being a good place to ride a bicycle…
After watching one too many sad bastards who’d lost their licenses to a DUI come wandering into his scooter shop, Doug Vitello had a brilliant idea: What if he could sell them a low-speed bike that could get them to work or the probation office?Thanks to a Chinese manufacturer and…
You leave work at 5 o’clock, hop on the 836 and at what seems like a snail’s pace hop on the Palmetto and, if you’re lucky, 60 minutes later you’re back home at you’re three-bedroom house in Kendall. Miami’s traffic problems suck, don’t they? Not according to a new study…
Local composer Wendy Mae Chambers is known for her avant-garde musical scores and quirky instruments, not her singing voice. But she must have sung one helluva tune in court earlier this month to avoid going to jail.On September 1, a year and a half after drunkenly plowing her SUV into…
An accident straight out of a Michael Bay movie has temporarily shut down a portion of Krome Avenue in both directions. At least three motorcycles collided with a tractor trailer. Luckily, a nearby helicopter landed near the scene, and a man jumped out of the chopper to administer CPR to…
I am probably the least qualified exotic car reviewer in the world…
