Check out these pictures of bicycle shelters and on-street bicycle parking. These are the types of bicycle parking ideas that should have been implemented at the new shopping center on South Beach. If two on-street parking spaces are removed, there would be enough room to park about 30 bicycles. Considering the developer just over built [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
Everglades Bicycle Club Annual Holiday Toy Ride 2009
[ December 13, 2009; 7:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Sunday, December 13, 2009
7:00-7:30 AM Toy and Donation Drop off & Refreshments
7:30 AM—All Rides begin
Ponce de Leon Middle School, Coral Gables
Admission fee to ride:
$15.00 or more donation or an unwrapped, new toy or gift for children infant to17 years old, worth at least $15.00. Gift Cards are especially appreciated for the teenagers.
3 Rides:
Easy Pace Family [...]
Miami Beach Monthly Community Bicycle Ride
[ December 12, 2009; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. January 9, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. February 13, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. March 13, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. April 10, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. May 8, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. June 12, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. July 10, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. August 14, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. September 11, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. October 9, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. November 13, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. December 11, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ]
The Miami Beach Bicycle Center organizes a monthly bicycle ride (2nd Saturday) with a Miami Beach Police escort. This is a great free event for the entire family.
601 5th street (Corner of 5th and Washington)
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Tel: 305-674-0150
Experience Level: Novice/Intermediate
Bring water and sunscreen.
FDOT and Dangerous by Design
[ December 16, 2009; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Here’s your chance to speak to an FDOT representative about the recently released Dangerous by Design report that ranked the following four metropolitan areas within Florida as the most dangerous for pedestrians in the United States.
1. Orlando-Kissimmee, FL
2. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
3. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL
4. Jacksonville, FL
The MPO Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee will [...]
Tallahassee Responds to ‘Dangerous by Design’
Shortly after the Dangerous by Design report came out, I filled out a letter at the Rails to Trails website to be sent to the Florida Legislature on the subject. I just got a form-letter reply from Speaker Larry Cretul that I’d like to share.
Thank you for your e-mail regarding the safety of pedestrians and [...]
New Bike Racks at the 5th & Alton Mall
New Bike Racks at the 5th & Alton Mall
I needed some things for dinner and quickly rode my bike to Publix at the Mall on 5th & Alton. It’s sort of a given that there would be no bike parking and I’d have to lock my bike to the garbage can, and indeed its what [...]
Update: The 311 Experiment
We have a little bit of good news to report; the pedestrian crosswalk signals at the South Miami Avenue and SE 13th Avenue intersection are working again after nearly a week since they stopped working.
Nevertheless things appeared to take a turn for the worse around lunch time today at this intersection. I went home for [...]
Rail Bill Passes Florida Senate!!
The State of Florida Senate passed the rail bill, complete with funding for tri-rail ($15-17 million), funding for Sun-Rail, and the establishment of the State Rail Enterprise to manage regional (and high speed) rail. Woo hoo! This is a big first step in the right direction for the State of Florida. The details of the [...]
Traffic Light Problems Continue to Plague Brickell
It seems like things are getting worse, not better, for those of us that live and work around Brickell. The traffic lights on Brickell Avenue and SE 14th Street were broken yet again today. Yesterday morning Public Service Aides were at this intersection directing traffic during morning rush hour, but today they were no where [...]
NPR Article About Roadrage
Listen to this sobering NPR report on the tumultuous on-road relationship between cars and bikes.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, traffic crashes killed 716 cyclists last year and injured 52,000 people riding bikes, trikes and unicycles.
Then later…
“These bicyclists are extremely rude, and they take up the road — four, five people at a [...]
AIA Awards DDA Masterplan “Urban Design of the Year”
Congratulations to Javier and the DDA team!
The Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) recognized the Miami Downtown Development Authority’s (Miami DDA) recently completed 2025 Downtown Miami Master Plan at its annual design awards ceremony, by its selection of Javier A. Betancourt, the Miami DDA’s manager of urban planning and transportation. [...]
Florida Legislative Rail Session Update
From tampabay.com:
At the start of the second week of a two-week special session, the Florida House voted 84-25 today for sweeping rail legislation. The bill allows creation of the SunRail commuter line in central Florida, adds a new permanent money source for the debt-ridden Tri-Rail system in South Florida and accelerates construction of a multi-billion-dollar [...]
Update: The 311 Experiment
Even though the County Public Works Department had all weekend to repair all the pedestrian crosswalk signals at the SE 13th Street and South Miami Avenue intersection, they remain broken. This will be the second day in a row that the CPWD has neglected to provide a safe route to school for our children. It’s [...]
Update: The 311 Experiment
It’s been 24 hours since I dialed 311 to report that all the pedestrian crosswalk signals at the SE 13th Street and South Miami Avenue intersection were not working. This morning, I took the time to witness several parents trying to cross the street here with their young children on the way to South [...]
The Beauties on Bicycles
Darlington Media Group and the Darlington Cycling Campaign produced a short video about overcoming social stigmas in order to encourage women to ride bicycles in the UK. A few months ago Scientific American reported that that best lead indicator for bikeability are women riders. As you may know, we here at Transit Miami are big [...]
