Photo of the Universal Gate 2100 Courtesy Cubic Transportation Systems
According to this article by Larry Lebowitz on the Miami Herald website, the Miami-Dade Transit Agency will be introducing SmartCard technology over the next year. The first fare boxes are scheduled to begin appearing in Metrobuses starting this month, with a systemwide roll-out to be completed by [...]
We’re Getting SmartCards…
About those proposed fare hikes…
Flickr Photo Courtesy Redpopjp
After reading Larry Lebowitz’s article in The Miami Herald yesterday, I decided to take a look around the nation at transit fares.
Here, for your edification (and, hopefully, action), I compare what our fares here in Miami-Dade County would look like after enactment of our commission-proposed fare hike, versus fares of some [...]
Transit Fare Hikes Delayed
Larry Lebowitz, Miami Herald Transportation reporter, wrote last night in breaking news that the Miami-Dade Commissioners delayed their vote for a $0.50 hike in bus and train fares for Miami-Dade Transit. According to Lebowitz, the deferral puts more pressure on the mayor and the transit agency to find solutions to the current cash crunch faced [...]
Alcohol? On Transit?
Effective June 1, all types of alcoholic beverages were declared illegal on London’s Underground. Never having travelled outside our rather puritanical nation’s borders, I hadn’t really thought about “drinking and riding” being a problem. After all, beverages of all sorts are not allowed on Miami-Dade’s transit system.
Though, after giving this some thought, a refreshingly cool [...]
I’d rather take the train…
Photos from today’s drive
Originally uploaded by seanbossinger
But to get from my folks’ place in Sebastian to our place in the Gables, it would take a 60 minute drive out to Okeechobee for an Amtrak that might or might not be late. So I got stuck driving through today’s light shower. This picture was [...]
Transit Ridership is Up – Duh… – Now Lets Kill Transit
Photo from Jack M. Turner at trainweb.org
As reported on CNN.COM, mass transit ridership is up, especially in the more transit-averse areas of the country (Seattle – 15%, Miami – 13%, even in Dallas and Denver). According to the video, ten billion trips were taken on mass transit in this country in the 2007 calendar [...]
One alternative to transit…
The Miami Herald’s website is reporting that Florida International University is adopting four-day work weeks for most of its employees this summer, in order to save money on electricity by closing many of its buildings one day per week. Employees will still be required to work the requisite 40 hours each week, but will do [...]
(My) First $4.00+ Gas Sighting…
I’ve been waiting for this moment, probably for too long; it arrived rather uncerimoniously as I passed the Chevron at 72nd Av. on SW 24th Street in the unincorporated neighborhood of Westchester. Now, I’ve seen diesel being sold at $4.25 or so for at least the last month, but until this morning, I had not [...]
Is an Increase in Waterfront Property on the Horizon?
The Miami Herald is reporting that County Commissioners, today, will hear a report from the “Miami-Dade County Climate Change Task Force,” in which data point to nothing less than a dramatic rise in sea levels on the horizon.
What does this have to do with transportation in Miami? Some of the suggestions for improvement from [...]
Welcome to TransitMiami’s New Platform…
For our regular readers, you will definitely notice the changes. For those who may be joining us for the first time, you’re looking at an evolution in progress. TransitMiami has left Blogger as its platform for communicating with you, and has moved to WordPress. WordPress offers a bit more flexibility, more stability, and loads more [...]
Pay-as-you-Drive? Insurance to Improve the Environment…
On Public Radio International’s “The World,” today, there was a report that insurance companies are looking at creating products based on various aspects of environmental risk. One risk being evaluated for potential profit is global warming based on carbon emissions. One of the leading causes of these emissions, of course, is transportation by [...]
Traffic jams a thing of the past?
In their March 13th edition, the Economist magazine published this article in which it was written that a company in Washington state, spun off from Microsoft, will be compiling and analyzing real-time satellite transponder and cell phone data from delivery vehicles. The company, INRIX, then will provide this real-time traffic analysis to companies like [...]
Public Meeting on Metrorail Expansion – March 25
Miami-Dade Transit has set March 25 as the date of the next public meeting to discuss plans for the new Metrorail line connecting the Earlington Heights station with the Miami Intermodal Center under construction near the Miami International Airport. The actual meeting will start at 7:00 p.m., with an open-house being held before, at [...]
Celebration of Disconnectedness
On the Tomorrowland Transit Authority this past week, I passed a model of Walt Disney’s original plan for an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT). I got to thinking: “I wonder how many people passing this model on a daily basis know that the Walt Disney Company actually tried their own hand at an [...]
Unity is definitely unique…
Robert Samuels, along with other staff writers of the Miami Herald has been writing this week about Unity Boulevard, perhaps better known as 27th Avenue. This thoroughfare traverses four of the most culturally and economically diverse areas of South Florida.
While the article delves into detail on the neighborhoods of Miami Gardens, Opa-Locka, Liberty City, [...]
