It’s the last Friday of August, which means everyone’s either out of town on vacation or about to ride in this month’s Critical Mass bicycle meetup. Last month, the ride plowed right through Miami’s active Zika transmission zone in Wynwood — tonight, the ride zips through the somewhat-safer roads of…
Long before the “Thanks, Obama” meme was a glimmer in your racist aunt’s eye, people were blaming things on Hillary Clinton. From Vince Foster to Benghazi to Emailgate, Hillary is old hat at battling away accusations by now. But there’s one thing that we actually can blame on Clinton today: She’s coming…
Driving in Miami is pretty much its own punchline. You’re on your way to work, or the plastic surgeon’s office, or your meth dealer’s apartment, trying to be all zen about the traffic, when suddenly some idiot cuts you off and damn near causes an accident. There’s a reason Florida…
Jacob Alkov chained his Schwinn to a loading zone sign at Lincoln Road and Pennsylvania Avenue several weeks ago. It was a Sunday and, he says, all the racks in the area were already loaded with bicycles. When he returned, a sticker was affixed to his ride. “Park your bicycle…
Four days after moving to Florida, I got in my first-ever car accident. In response, my coworkers simply shrugged. One of them grabbed my shoulder in solidarity. “Welcome to Miami,” he said, and then tottered off cackling. A study released yesterday has confirmed what anyone who’s driven along I-95; plowed…
It’s the last Friday of the month, which means traffic across town will come to a screeching halt as hundreds of cyclists commandeer the streets tonight. It’s Critical Mass, the one night every month when Miamians who hate cyclists are forced to shut up and deal with bikers for once…
Traffic in Miami, on an average day, falls somewhere on the pain scale between a forced viewing of Michael Bay’s latest Transformers movie and a Floyd Mayweather punch to kidneys. Even worse, public transit is so lacking that most Miamians have no option but to bake in their cars along the…
Miami Beach is moving swiftly with its plans to bring a light rail system to the city, and, now, one of the three organizations bidding to build the project has released renderings of what their vision of that system might look like. On Facebook, Connect Miami Beach (a consortium of…
The backlash against red light cameras conintues. The Miami-Dade County Commission voted this week to rescind the county’s power to install the cameras in unincorporated areas. That means you’ll never see red light cameras in places like Kendall, Westchester, Brownsville and The Redlands. Back in 2011, the County Commission tentatively…
Just two months ago, hundreds of grinning cyclists gathered at the western end of the Venetian Causeway. They had reason to celebrate: The scenic, historic link between downtown and South Beach had been closed for eight months of repairs, leaving bikes with a Sophie’s Choice of the high-speed MacArthur and…
Vera Arias glides north along Federal Highway during morning rush hour, her black Republic road bike fast and light beneath her. All her senses are heightened at this intersection near the Miami-Dade/Broward County line, the worst part of her daily ride to work. Cars zoom past and honk aggressively. To…
One of Miami’s most treacherous roads may be getting a serious safety upgrade, in the form of a 10-foot protected path for use by cyclists and pedestrians. The Julia Tuttle Causeway, a six-lane divided highway that connects Midtown Miami with Miami Beach, posts a speed limit of 55 miles per…
If you need a dose of rage to get your blood pumping on a Monday morning, take a few minutes to read the Yelp reviews of Tremont Towing. Amid the usual complaints of illegal tows and surly drivers, you’ll notice another common complaint: Drivers must pay nearly $300 to get…
The first time we heard of architect Bernard Zyscovich’s plan to turn parts of the Rickenbacker causeway into a pedestrian and cyclist friendly linear park it was a revolutionary but still modest idea. His original plan called for lessening the number of car lanes on the bridge, and replacing them…
Uber and Lyft have operated in Miami-Dade in a murky legal gray area for years. After lots of talks and false starts the Miami-Dade County Commission finally passed an ordinance yesterday to legalize the car-for-hire apps. It wasn’t even a close vote. The ordinance passed 9-2, and was widely hailed…
We’ve seen some things on Miami roads, but maybe nothing quite as crazy as this. Video has emerged of what appears to be a road rage incident that occurred on Tuesday down in Kendall in which one man wound up taking a ride on the hood of a white VW while…
Every year since its inception, the Walk Score rankings have placed Miami as one of the nation’s top ten most walkable cities. In fact, last year, Miami shot up to fifth on the list. We retain that spot in the just released 2016 rankings. Although, our raw walk score has…
Miami-Dade leaders have been talking about massive expansion of transit systems in the County for more than 15 years now, but little has actually been done. There’s, of course, the issue of how to actually pay for these things compounded by constant in-fighting over which project should be pursued first. …
Spend a few late-night hours outside Beach Towing’s walled-in lot in Sunset Harbour and you’ll surely hear this refrain from a furious tourist realizing they owe $300 to get their car back: “This is illegal!” There’s not much recourse for those burned tourists except to fork over the cash. But…
Next time you’re sitting in gridlock on the Palmetto Expressway or spending a half-hour to drive four blocks on South Beach during rush hour, console yourself with the fact that six other metro areas in the United States have worse traffic. Does that relieve you? As your grip slowly tightens on your…
Anyone planning to spend time downtown or in South Beach this weekend may want to rethink their plans — and fast. With tens of thousands of extra party people here for Ultra, LeBron back in town to play the Heat, and South Beach raging with spring breakers, our already traffic-choked…
Another day in Miami, another occasion to bitch about traffic. In Brickell, it’s so bad that even the valet parkers say their tips have been cut in half because the roads are so congested the cars can’t even get to a damn valet station. One brave Miamian has a public…
