A few weeks ago on this blog, Felipe pointed out how incomplete streets are more than just an inconvenience for some people. For people like Lance, who rely on active transportation for exercise or just simple mobility, designing and maintaining our roads and sidewalks to accommodate everyone is the difference between being able to get [...]
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Bicycle lanes on Miami Beach put on the chopping block?
[ June 23, 2010; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Transit Miami received this email regarding Euclid Avenue from Gabrielle Redfern, on behalf of BASIC (Bicycle Activists for a Safe, Integrated City)
Another day, another bicycle facility on the chopping block in the City of Miami Beach. Current plans call for dedicated bike lanes on this road when it gets reconstructed in the nearer future. Even [...]
Enforcement increases on the Rickenbacker Causeway, but hazards still remain.
Since the hit and run collision that killed cyclist Christoph LeCanne in January, the Transit Miami Eye has noticed that the Miami Dade Police Department has wholeheartedly stepped up enforcement on the Rickenbacker Causeway. This morning I noticed a small army of Miami Dade police officers pulling over speeding cars. Well done MDPD, your efforts [...]
Transitography #138: France
For the past couple of weeks I have been eating, drinking, and biking my way through France. My wife and I spent a week honeymooning in Provence and another week in Paris.
Provence
We spent the first week of our honeymoon cycling through the heart of wine country in Provence. Our tour was organized by Headwater and [...]
Better City by Better Block: Dallas as our example
We talk a lot about improving the streets here at TransitMiami.com. Streets are about moving people, but they are also destinations in and of themselves. People go out of there way to ride specific bikeways and trails, explore Lincoln Road and the Upper Eastside/Biscayne Boulevard. Families take tri-rail just to get to Clematis for an [...]
Just another Sunday morning on the Rickenbacker Causeway
Yesterday I went for a bike ride on the Rickenbacker Causeway. This is what I witnessed:
Several hundred bicyclists
Hundreds of pedestrians
Two Miami Dade Police cruisers enforcing the speed limit
At least 7 cars driving in excess of 50 mph
Five cars driving in excess of 65 mph on the bridges
A SUV swerve into the bicycle lane while doing [...]
Update: FDOT’s Coral Way Resurfacing Project
It’s been nearly 6 months since FDOT completed its auto-centric resurfacing project on Coral Way. Our readers may recall that I did a thorough analysis on the poor quality of the bike lanes which were striped on Coral Way. We were told that FDOT would go back and re-stripe the bike lanes correctly [...]
FDOT is officially put on notice
Enough is enough. Cyclists in South Florida are sick and tired of FDOT’s antics. FDOT chooses not to include or even consider bicycle lanes in most of their resurfacing projects in District 6. Last night about 35 cyclists attended an open house in which FDOT told the attendees that bicycle lanes would not be included [...]
The Proof is in the Pudding: Reducing the Speed Limit Saves Lives
Streetsblog is reporting that over the past decade London has been reducing speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph throughout the city. Today London has over four hundred 20 mph zones. As s result, Londoners have benefited from a 46% decline in fatalities and serious injury within the 20 mph zones during the past [...]
Creating an Urban Bicycle Network
Until recently Miami had never really given bicycling much consideration. During the past year or so the bicycling movement has gained momentum here. The Miami Bicycle Master Plan was approved by the Miami commissioners, bicycle lanes are slowly popping up and we see more and more cyclists on the road everyday. This is certainly a [...]
An Inspiration to All Cyclists
Mr. R.K Smith, 88, with his 1953 Schwinn Cruiser
In my never-ending quest to add a truly vintage bicycle to my collection, this morning I stopped by a garage sale in Coconut Grove while on my morning bike ride. There out of the corner of my eye I spotted a 1953 Schwinn cruiser owned by Mr. [...]
Port Tunnel Work (Unofficially) Begins; MacArthur Causeway to be Expanded
Miami today is reporting that work on the $1 billion port tunnel has (unofficially) begun. Environmental work is underway and rigs have been set up on MacArthur Causeway’s median to begin taking soil samples. The project officially breaks ground in May and will take approximately 4 years to complete.
Not only will we have a very [...]
Death Wish to Bike in Miami?
Friend of Transit Miami Dana Weinstein recently wrote an editorial for the Miami Herald to commemorate Bike Month. Although Dina commutes with her two children to school on bicycles, she does not suggest that inexperienced cyclists/parents follow her lead. She says, “It really takes someone with almost a death wish to walk or bike”.
Part of [...]
Commissioner Carollo Not (Yet) Supporting the Bicycle Master Plan?
Commissioner Frank Carollo, District 3
At this week’s Bicycle Action Committee meeting, the regular updates given on the status of the Bicycle Master Plan were missing a few crucial projects, all of which are in Commissioner Frank Carollo’s district. I asked the Bicycle Coordinator, Collin Worth, what happened? Ever the diplomat, he informed us [...]
Transit Miami Recommendations for the Rickenbacker Causeway
The Rickenbacker Causeway is similar to Chicago’s Lakeshore Drive; everyday thousands of people descend upon our beautiful causeway for recreational purposes. This is particularly evident on Saturday and Sunday mornings when runners, walkers, rollerbladers, parents with strollers and bicyclists come in droves to exercise. The Rickenbacker Causeway recently completed a major resurfacing project. Unfortunately, this [...]
