I wanted to share two letters I recently recieved that showcase how tricky it is for municipalities to get bike infrastrutcure right without having proper professional guideance.
From Coral Gables resident:
From Coral Gables Resident,
This has been on my mind for a while and I have not known who to write? As a Coral Gables resident I [...]
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Coral Gables & Bike Lanes
Coral Gables is Testing Red Light Cameras
From the Herald:
American Traffic Solutions installed the first camera last week at Le Jeune and Alhambra, which Police Chief Richard Naue said had been identified as a trouble spot. They are testing it this week, Naue said.
“We’re not treating it as a traffic law. We are treating it as a code enforcement law, as a [...]
The Original Coral Gables Trolley
The Colonnade Building and Coral Gables Trolley, mid 1920’s. From the State of Florida Archives.
FDOT Sees, Clicks, and Fixes in Broward County
The Florida Department of Transportation’s Broward Operations Center is already using the website that you may have just heard about, SeeClickFix. That means that instead of your concerns just getting posted on the site and ignored, you can hope for some action. Transit Miami spoke with Darlene Williams in the complaints department at FDOT, who [...]
Thursday News Update
The South Dade Coalition is fighting FPL’s plans for transmission lines down US1 as these would keep the corridor from developing into the mixed-use, walkable place they seek. Good job guys.
Coral Gables is extending its trolley down ponce from 8th street to Flagler using FDOT dollars for the first year.
Dade and Broward Counties are getting [...]
Development Threatens M-Path, MacArthur to Get Bicycle Lanes?!
Yesterday’s Miami-Dade County Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) meeting was filled with interesting news. As Spokes n’ Folks reported, much attention was given to a couple of urban infill projects in Coral Gables, located adjacent to the M-Path.
Dadeland Station developer Jeff Berkowitz is moving forward with plans to redevelop the Deel Ford parcel, the larger [...]
Cyclist Town Hall Meeting
There will be a “cyclist town hall meeting” next Monday at Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center. The details are below:
–> When: April 14, 2008.
–> Where: Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center 405 University [...]
News Brief
As some of you may have noticed, two of Transit Miami’s writers, Andrew Davis and James Wilkins, have departed due to personal time constraints. Meanwhile we welcome the addition of our latest writer, Rob Jordan, who will be working his way into the website over the next few weeks. Transit Miami is looking [...]
Crazy New UM Study
The Coral Gables Gazette recently published a troubling article on a trolley study conducted by the University of Miami’s Industrial Engineering department. Troubling not because of the results of the study but because of how ridiculously logical the conclusions were. The simplicity can be summed up best by the CGG’s article title: New [...]
Old Spanish Village
The planners for the old Spanish Village development along Ponce Circle in the Gables are working to create a new office building (shown above) which would attempt to replicate the Barcelona Cathedral: I’m not sure what the final building will look like, but I’ve always been curious to see a modern day Gothic building rise. [...]
Announcement: National Park(ing) Day 2007
Tomorrow is an exciting day for sustainable city advocates, or for that matter anyone who cares about parks and public space. Tomorow is National Park(ing) Day 2007, where cities across the U.S. will be taking back parking spaces and converting them to park space. An organization known as the Trust for Public Land (TPL) is [...]
Height isn’t everything…
Building height isn’t everything. A recent comment reiterated the importance of that statement in my mind today. Sometimes skyline and skyscraper enthusiasts (developers too, but their motivations are fueled by ego and profit) become so fixated on heights of buildings that they seem to forget about some of the finer qualities of the [...]
Quick News Links
MIA Cargo is still #1, despite a slip in market share…
Bacardi is consolidating it North American operations into the 250,000 square foot building originally intended for the BK world headquarters…
FDOT moves forward on plans to pour more money into the colossal black hole known as I-95…
Forget the lost Arctic Seal in Ft. Lauderdale, we’ve got [...]
Won’t you be my neighbor?
Coral Gables has a new resident moving in soon. That’s right, soon to be former governor Jeb Bush will be moving into the Segovia tower along Granada’s Golf course (leftmost building.)
Rent is $5,500 per month for the [...]
