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News Briefs

  • CBS does a little math for us: Corruption + 11 City Workers = Miami.
  • MDT is looking into using hovercraft for the 18 month pilot water taxi program. The two water taxi routes (Haulover-Miami and Matheson Hammock-Miami) would operate the $1.2 Million boats with a maximum capacity of 30-50 passengers. The hovercraft are being considered due to their minimal impact on manatees and the delicate sea grass of Biscayne Bay, but would be limited to a 30 mph operation speed.
  • MIA is working on renewing an incentive program to gain new service to more destinations from Miami.
    • “Cities the airport would like to begin direct service to include Capetown and Johannesburg, South Africa; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos, Nigeria; Casablanca, Morocco; Brussels; Dublin; Helsinki; Moscow; Warsaw; Budapest; Tokyo; Seoul; Hong Kong; Shanghai; and New Delhi or Mumbai, formerly Bombay.”
  • The DDA may soon be granting Macy’s some financial incentives to stay downtown…I’d like to see Macy’s revamp their downtown store before we go head and hand them a handout. I couldn’t agree more with Mayor Diaz:
    • “The mayor has insisted the store has to be redone so that it is appealing and more open to the street…”

US Flight Patterns

Ever wonder what the thousands of flights which take place daily over the American skies look like digitally? Aaron Koblin, of UCLA, using some digital media and statistics from the FAA, was able to recreate a time-lapse sort of digital video of all the flights which take place in the United States daily. Combined with some nifty music and color coded flight paths, it makes one of the most interesting studies to watch…

Click Here for Video…

Via An Affair with Urban Policy…