The following arrived via email in my Inbox this morning, from Gabrielle Redfern.
Dear Friends:
At today’s CIPOC meeting, (5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Commission Chambers, 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach), the BAYSHORE neighborhood will argue for a change in their neighborhood BODR that will narrow streets and remove bike lanes in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bicycles’
New Threat to More Miami Beach Bike Lanes
Editorial: The Tragic Catalyst
I don’t think anyone will argue with me when I say that Christopher Lecanne’s death last Sunday could have been avoided. There are a number of factors that contributed to that tragic event, starting with Carlos Bertonatti’s decision to inebriate himself and then drive back home under the influence. This was not an accident. Bertonatti [...]
Miami Dade Transit Bus Bike Racks
Today was the first time I used one of the bike racks mounted on the MDT buses, as I did a bike-bus commute from South Beach to FIU Biscayne Bay. I boarded the 93 bus at Omni station and loaded my bike onto the rack closest to the driver. I should note that I ride [...]
Weekly News Wrap-Up
The Burle Marx Miami-New World Design sidewalk on Biscayne Boulevard was finally completed.
Mayor Manny Diaz leaving office with a bicycling legacy behind him.
FDOT makes a “formal” commitment to high speed rail.
Babes and Bicycles
Scientific American is reporting that that best lead indicator for bikeability are women riders. Jan Garrard, a senior lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, says,
If you want to know if an urban environment supports cycling, you can forget about all the detailed ‘bikeability indexes’—just measure the proportion of cyclists who are female.”
Apparently, women [...]
Critical Mass: Friday September 25
Friday, September 25th @ 6:30pm
Government Center
101 NW First St
Downtown Miami
This will be the first Critical Mass ride of the 2009 Fall season. As always the ride begins from Government Center in Downtown Miami. The ride will pass through East Little Havana, East Coral Gables, Southeast Gables, Coconut Grove, Vizcaya, Brickell & Downtown Miami. 15 miles [...]
Bicycle Superhighways coming to Copenhagen
Copenhagen isn’t content with the fact that only 55% percent of its population bikes everyday. In order to encourage more bicycling, they are expanding their bicycling network to the outlying areas with bicycle superhighways. The idea is for bicyclists to maintain an average speed of 12mph by utilizing a series of three existing bicycle routes [...]
Human Power of the Future
The March issue of Popular Science has an intriguing article on some innovative options for human powered transportation. Among these is the Human Car, powered by up to four people riding in it; the Velomobile, a single passenger recumbent tricycle with an aerodynamic fairing to slice through the air; and even a human powered monorail. [...]
Bus Bicycle Rack Rap
Say that tens time fast.
Via Streetsblog, the Louisville Transit Authority is using a corny rap video to promote the use of bicycle racks on buses. Funny thing is, it may be working…
A Success
By all accounts Bike Miami was a total success! Some estimates claim nearly 2,000 bicyclists, joggers, walkers, dogs, dancers and skaters in attendance. I have a feeling it may have been a little more, but regardless, downtown was full of smiling people enjoying their city in a new way.
The two hot spots were undoubtedly Mary [...]
Sunday Streets
Streetfilms covers San Francisco’s Sunday Streets – could this be a preview of what’s to come in November at Bike Miami?
Heard On The Street
“I used to only ride this street on the weekends, you know it can be sketchy. But now I feel there are more bicyclists everywhere and its safer because the cars are starting to expect it.”
–Fellow bicycle commuter on SW 7th Street, heading west from downtown to his job near the airport.
Addressing Waterfront Open Space
I spent the better part of this long weekend wandering through the many parks of New York City. The weekend weather was absolutely perfect to spend the whole day in a park and as you’ll see from the pictures below – I wasn’t the only one who thought so. Now, I know I’ve said this [...]
Herald Chronicles Miami’s ‘Green Bicycle Wave’
Reporter Andres Viglucci wrote a nice piece chronicling the City’s growing commitment to becoming a bicycle friendly city. He writes:
Whether it’s out of fear of getting crushed by two tons of speeding metal, the clueless motorists or the near-total lack of bike lanes, Miamians have long been notoriously bike-averse.
So what’s a car-choked town [...]
House Passes Bailout Bill, Incentivizes Bicycle Commuting
Regardless of weather or not you were in favor of the “bailout bill” or not, enough of our representatives were. While the short term and long term effects of this monumental piece of legislation will play out in the coming weeks, months and years, one thing is for sure: riding a bicycle to [...]
