The Miami Herald ran a story today regarding the Venetian closure and the effects it will have on pedestrians and bicyclists. Featured in the story is Felipe Azenha, a regular Transit Miami reader and a dedicated bicycle activist. From the article:
But some cycling advocates don’t think that is enough. The MacArthur is dangerous for pedestrians [...]
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Herald Picks Up Story, No Action Yet
Bike Miami Days Returns, Joins Flagler Fest and Walk for The Animals
This Saturday, Bike Miami Days is joining forces with the 8th annual antique car Flagler Fest and the 2009 Purina Walk for The Animals. With ever more programs, events, music, and things to do, and now in conjunction with these two concurrent events and many partnering businesses, organizations and municipalities, this is likely to be [...]
Miami Beach To Improve, Expand Bicycle Facilities
Miami Beach is already a relatively bicycle-friendly city. It’s dense urban pattern, limited geographic area, mixture of uses, and many well-scaled streets – prerequisites for urban bicycling — certainly give it a leg up on all other South Florida municipalities.
However, these qualities alone do not a great bicycle city make.
As demonstrated in cities like Portland, [...]
The PTP Disaster
We apologize for being slow to comment on the recent Herald series about the People’s Transportation Plan disaster. Everyone at Transit Miami has been extremely busy as of late, but we’ll definitely have several pieces in the coming days and weeks discussing many of the elements referenced by Larry Lebowitz’s multi-part series.
Stay tuned!
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Miami 21: Is it really that hard to understand?
I know we have already mentioned this topic this week, but considering the Herald continues its negative spin campaign against the zoning rewrite I thought a healthy counterpoint was in order. Herald columnist Ana Mendez writes in her column today that she thinks that the code is a little too complicated for a layperson to [...]
Lesson for Housing Reformers: You Can’t Escape Crime with Suburban Design
Source: Miami Herald
An article in the Herald this morning sheds light on crime problems in Liberty City’s recently constructed Habitat for Humanity community.
On Northwest 68th Terrace, a street in the heart of the neighborhood with 17 houses, nine homeowners reported having something stolen from their property or had property vandalized in the last month.
The list [...]
"Make Miami a bicycle friendly city"
That’s the message of DPZ planner Mike Lydon, who recently had this nice letter printed in the Miami Herald. Here’s a reprint:
An increasing number of cities, large and small, welcome bicycling as an energy efficient, healthy and economically sustainable means of alternative transportation. Chicago, for example, is currently implementing its Bike [...]
Could the North Corridor be Threatened by Juvenile Politics?
If you read the Herald yesterday, you probably saw this article. It’s not so hard to believe given the bizarre political culture of Miami-Dade, but the proposed North Corridor extension of the Metrorail may be in trouble.
Apparently, the administration of Miami-Dade College North Campus has been working with county transit planners for the last three [...]
An open letter reply to the East Kendall Homeowners Organization (EKHO)
In response to recent editorials by the East Kendall Homeowners Organization and Ed Levine, I decided to submit my own editorial to the Herald, let’s hope they publish it…
An open letter reply to the East Kendall Homeowners Organization (EKHO):
It is disheartening to see such a motivated and presumably progressive group of individuals that comprise the [...]
Welcome Miami Herald Readers!
You’ve probably just in stumbled here after reading about the Transit Miami Summer Transit Challenge in Today’s Miami Herald. This is Transit Miami, a weblog I created to openly discuss the urban development and Transit issues facing our beautiful community. I encourage everyone to participate in the discussions by leaving their comments or by e-mailing [...]
