Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Miami

The Florida International Bridge Collapse Is About So Much More Than a Failed Structure

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 16, 2018 | No Comments

It's an indictment of the approach to transportation planning that opts for pedestrian bridges instead of making streets safe for people to cross on foot.

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Miami’s Future Should Be Transit and Walking, But the Mayor’s Focused on Robot Cars

By Stephen Miller | May 26, 2017 | No Comments

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez is in charge of executing an ambitious transit expansion plan -- but lately, in a spectacular example of missing the point, he's been talking up autonomous cars as the ultimate transportation solution.

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Reimagining Miami’s Waterfront Speedway as a Street for People

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 14, 2017 | No Comments

Miami's Biscayne Boulevard is eight roaring lanes of traffic cutting off downtown from the waterfront. But maybe not for long. In what could be a transformative project, the city is looking to convert this surface speedway into a walkable boulevard.

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Miami-Dade Squanders Transit Tax on Roads, Thanks to Florida DOT

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 7, 2014 | No Comments

Only one of every five federal transportation dollars are set aside specifically for transit. So it’s infuriating when a local government plunders the small pool of transit funds and spends it on roads. Particularly when that place has some of the country’s most notoriously car-dominated and dangerous streets. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Miami-Dade County, Florida. […]

LeBron and Friends Reclaim Miami’s Streets in New Ad

By Brad Aaron | Oct 28, 2013 | 7 Comments

Looks like the new LeBron James Nike ad that debuted during “Sunday Night Football” last night was at least in part the star’s idea. The spot portrays the two-time NBA champion performing his off-season workout regimen, accompanied by hundreds of kids and adults on bikes as he rides through Miami. Bystanders watch or join in […]

D-Wade Is Traffic — Heat Star a Regular at Miami Critical Mass

By Ben Fried | Dec 4, 2012 | 3 Comments

Via BikeBlogNYC, the Miami Bike Scene recently posted this post-game clip of Dwyane Wade in which the All-Star Heat guard shares his fondness for going on bike rides with thousands of other people. On Friday, it seems, Wade and teammates LeBron James and Mario Chalmers warmed up for the next day’s match against the Brooklyn Nets […]

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