MiamiBikeReport.com is a new, fully-interactive website for the Greater Miami community that makes bicycling that much funner, easier, better. Started by Eddy, an active member of the local bicycling community, the website makes it easy to report any challenges Miamians face while on bike ride: crap or cars in the Bike Lane, collisions,police targeting cyclists, harassment and much more. MiamiBikeReport has the potential to be a huge resource for you, us, city planners, law enforcement, social equity groups and policymakers.
The #MiamiBikeReport is like a bicycle – it only works if you keep it moving.
TransitMiami.com wants to help make sure people who ride – all over Miami, speaking both English and Spanish – are using the site for it to really work for the community. Our partners at The South Florida Bike Coalition will be working with Eddy to promote this website through flyers, neighborhood groups and law enforcement. If you are willing to help, contact hello@miamibikereport.com.
So, how easy is it to report?
MiamiBikeReport asks those of you who are internet savvy to go here and submit a description of the incident/debris/issue (with photos, if you have them) online. However, unlike other projects that have tried to do this before (TransitMiami’s earlier project was a model for the MiamiBikeReport), this program is not only more comprehensive, it allows anyone to report anything related to a bike ride in multiple easy ways:
- Text the type of incident, location, time to 786-250-2453(BIKE)
- Drop an email with the same to send@miamibikereport.com
- Tweet with the hashtags #bikereport or #miamibikereport
- Submit this easy online form.
VisitMiamiBikeReport.com and try it out. Eddy is eager to hear your suggestions and ideas to make the site work better at hello@miamibikereport.com.
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Yeah, this is just pure awesome. I just blogged about it as well on Slow Bike Miami.
http://goo.gl/fb/Rrv5u
This would be perfect for an iPhone app.
Hi Neil,
The tool is accessible via mobile browser at http://corker.miamibikereport.com/mobile
I’m aware there is an iPhone app (and also for Android and Windows mobile devices) for the software we used on the site. However, we didn’t do any testing on that, since the main interest was to get the site up due to the number of incidents occurring lately.
Looking at the iTunes store, it doesn’t have the application listed there, but the developers of the software have it available as a download on their site.
If I can somehow get my hands on an iPhone (I’m a Blackberry user and the other contributor of the site uses Palm) I will sure give it a try and update this post.
Thanks for taking a look at the site!
What software are you using to power this?