Just when you thought that things at the Stephen P. Clark center couldn’t get much sleazier, along comes Commissioner Jose ‘Pepe’ Diaz to wow even the most cynical observer. Under a veiled attempt to cut budget costs, the Commissioner is proposing two separate ordinances. One will eliminate the Community Councils, and send zoning cases to [...]
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Alvarez Proposes Cutting Bus Routes
If you’ve been too distracted by elections and Vice Presidential nominations this week, maybe you haven’t heard yet that Miami Dade Transit may be cutting bus routes. Larry Lebowitz at the Miami Herald has the details on the routes that could be cut. These are routes with plenty of ridership, so nothing to be taken [...]
The Week in Review…
Lots went on this week in transit and I for one am exhausted. I know we have been silent these past few weeks on what has been happening, and speaking for myself, I didn’t have anything new to add to the discussion that I had not already said before. MDT is having problems, ridership is [...]
Postscript on UDB Vote
It’s not often that our local politics gets featured in National news media (unless of course it has something to do with Cuba or an international custody battle), but Time Magazine featured an article this week on the UDB fight.
“One of the Lowe’s project’s biggest backers on the commission is Jose “Pepe” Diaz, who [...]
Miami 21: On Hold Again
Miami 21 is in the Herald today with news that is not very uplifting. Commissioner Regalado, a longtime critic of the plan, has decided that the residents of his district do not yet fully understand the code and that he will not let the plan move forward until they do. Judging from turnout at meetings [...]
Miami News & Commentary
The State growth management planners have officially drafted a report recommending Miami-Dade County commissioners to reject the most recent bids to move the Urban Development Boundary further west. The issue will now head back to county commissioners who will vote again based on the state’s recommendations.
We really did not see this going any [...]
Commission Goes Crazy
A national transportation commission, with the scary sounding name of “National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission,” released a report last week known as Transportation for Tomorrow. This report calls for, among other things, raising the gas tax by 40 cents in five years, creating a new federal bureaucracy, imposing federal regulations on states [...]
Mid Week News
Tri-Rail carried more passengers in 2007 than in 2006. The overall system ridership is up 31% since march 2006…
City of Miami is working on identifying vacant lots to be used for park space…
The County Commission is trying to get the state and federal government to kick in hundreds of millions of dollars for metrorail [...]
Thursday Quote
“A hundred years after we are gone and forgotten, those who never heard of us will be living with the results of our actions.”
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A Giant Leap in the Right Direction
I attended today’s county commission meeting to voice my support for many of the projects, particularly the port of Miami Tunnel and the Streetcar. I sat through all 10 hours of testimony and discussion, at times observing our commissioners running around in circles. Hours of discourse could have likely been saved had all [...]
City of Miami Port Tunnel Vote Today
City of Miami Commissioners will be voting today on ponying up their paltry $50 million share of a nearly Billion dollar plan to tunnel from Watson Island to the Port of Miami, providing direct highway access to the facility. We’ve discussed (See: Port Part 1, Part 2) how we prefer a rail option to [...]
Mayor Alvarez Holds the Line
We some how bypassed this article last week, but, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez vetoed commission recommendations to approve a number of projects outside of the UDB. The veto will likely stand given that the commission lacks the 2/3 majority to override the mayor, presuming that none of the commissioners switch sides…
“If Miami-Dade moves outside [...]
Miami Eye?
Preliminary discussion has begun over at County Hall exploring an option to create a large observation wheel somewhere within the county. The Ferris wheel, likely comparable to the London eye, would rotate numerous large enclosed observation pods slowly, providing riders with unobstructed views of the skyline and Bay. The project is the brainchild [...]
Pig on Our Bay, Part 1
As we promised earlier, let’s discuss the recently approved commission plans to build an above ground parking structure and Bay of Pigs Museum on the parcel of land behind the AA Arena otherwise known as Parcel B. As Alex of SOTP noted earlier today let’s disect some of the finer parts of Tuesday’s Miami-Dade Commission [...]
Apologies/News Briefs
We here at Transit Miami, would like to issue a heartfelt, sincere apology to our dedicated readers for our less than stellar content contribution lately. Each of us is currently wound up in our personal affairs and have naturally failed to allocate enough time to writing comprehensive, detailed articles on the latest transit/development issues. [...]
