According to Metro Magazine Miami-Dade Transit has been honored by the National Association of Counties for their Train Tracker service.
If you have not already check out the Train Tracker by visiting www.miamidade.gov/transit and click “Where is the Train?” in the left navigation bar under “Rider Tools.” If using a mobile device, visit www.miamidade.gov/transit/mobile/.
Congrats MDT!
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Miami-Dade’s Train Tracker Service Garners Award
Dump The Pump
Tomorrow is national Dump The Pump day, an annual event started by the American Public Transportation Association to encourage people to try transit, walking, or bicycling to their daily destinations. As Miami-Dade Transit Director Harpal Kapoor says in this Miami Herald article on the subject, with gas prices rising again (49 days straight) now might [...]
Does The Stallworth Sentence Match The Crime?
What do you think Miami? Consider the comments section an open forum.
You may also read my opinion and thoughts on the case at my Planetizen blog.
News Roundup
“Effective Sunday, June 14, 2009, more than 60 bus routes will be adjusted” (Miami-Dade transit)
Lee County is trying to spend its stimulus money as fast as possible. In what seems to be a pattern across the country, transit is losing out to roads mostly because of faulty federal funding rules.
Congress has agreed to allow transit [...]
Bicycle Summit Exceeds Expectations
A large standing room only crowd of 80 100 people gathered tonight at Jose Marti Park for the city’s first Bicycle Summit. While it certainly was great to see so many familiar faces in the crowd — many of who have had a critical role in pushing Miami to become more bicycle friendly – it [...]
Join Us At The Bike Summit
This is just a friendly reminder that Miami’s first public Bicycle Summit, an event tied to the city’s first Bicycle Master Plan, will take place today at Jose Marti Park. Click here for all the details and here (if you have not already) to fill out a brief 11 question Miami bicycle survey. Many thanks [...]
Free Fruit Trees
With talk of peak oil imminent, I thought it was well timed that the City of Miami is hosting a fruit tree giveaway to City residents tomorrow, Saturday June 12th. Considering the increased expense of shipping agricultural products across the world my bet is that we’ll need to rely on sources of food close to [...]
Department of Energy: Peak Oil Closer Than We Thought
In the first official acknowledgment of ‘peak oil’, the Department of Energy has released its yearly International Energy Outlook, and it does not look good. Simply put, peak oil is the term that describes the point past which we have used more oil than remains in the Earth. Some have argued that the current extreme [...]
Boston Unveils Smart Code
Yet another large city is deciding to implement a smart growth code, this time Boston.
Today, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council will unveil a new plan for growth and preservation in Greater Boston. The plan, called “MetroFuture,” was constructed with input from more than 5,000 residents and regional leaders. It calls for a new pattern [...]
Virginia Key Master Plan: A Closer Look
Our friends over at the Urban Environment League Blog have been doing a great job of covering the latest on the Virginia Key Master Plan. Check out the complete May 20 presentation here. Given the upcoming Planning Advisory Board vote, I thought to highlight some of the good and not-so-good aspects of the plan.
The Virginia [...]
FDOT Sees, Clicks, and Fixes in Broward County
The Florida Department of Transportation’s Broward Operations Center is already using the website that you may have just heard about, SeeClickFix. That means that instead of your concerns just getting posted on the site and ignored, you can hope for some action. Transit Miami spoke with Darlene Williams in the complaints department at FDOT, who [...]
SeeClickFix
We’re proud to introduce a new feature of Transit Miami called ‘SeeClickFix‘.
SeeClickFix encourages residents to become citizens by participating in taking care of and improving their neighborhoods. We allow anyone to:
See – see a non-emergency issue in your neighborhood
Click – open a ticket describing the issue and what can be done to resolve it
Fix – [...]
City of Miami Trolley #238
@ NW 2nd St. and 16th Ave, 1940 Courtesy of Florida Memory, State of Florida Archives
Save Mr. Clucky!
As if bicycle-riding people didn’t have enough problems, now the bicycle-riding rooster is in danger. The City of Miami Beach is trying to evict Mr. Clucky, the bicycle-handlebar-riding rooster, just for being a farm animal. Read more about it at the Miami Herald and head over to the rooster’s own website for more info on [...]
Welcome Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Streetsblog Capitol Hill launched today. Here’s what writer Elana Schor had to say about the DC version:
Streetsblog Capitol Hill is a federal version of the Streetsblogs in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco — a place for community residents and livable streets advocates to connect with the often daunting bureaucracy in the nation’s [...]
