Uber and Lyft have operated in Miami-Dade in a murky legal gray area for years. After lots of talks and false starts the Miami-Dade County Commission finally passed an ordinance yesterday to legalize the car-for-hire apps. It wasn’t even a close vote. The ordinance passed 9-2, and was widely hailed…
We’ve seen some things on Miami roads, but maybe nothing quite as crazy as this. Video has emerged of what appears to be a road rage incident that occurred on Tuesday down in Kendall in which one man wound up taking a ride on the hood of a white VW while…
Every year since its inception, the Walk Score rankings have placed Miami as one of the nation’s top ten most walkable cities. In fact, last year, Miami shot up to fifth on the list. We retain that spot in the just released 2016 rankings. Although, our raw walk score has…
Miami-Dade leaders have been talking about massive expansion of transit systems in the County for more than 15 years now, but little has actually been done. There’s, of course, the issue of how to actually pay for these things compounded by constant in-fighting over which project should be pursued first. …
Spend a few late-night hours outside Beach Towing’s walled-in lot in Sunset Harbour and you’ll surely hear this refrain from a furious tourist realizing they owe $300 to get their car back: “This is illegal!” There’s not much recourse for those burned tourists except to fork over the cash. But…
Next time you’re sitting in gridlock on the Palmetto Expressway or spending a half-hour to drive four blocks on South Beach during rush hour, console yourself with the fact that six other metro areas in the United States have worse traffic. Does that relieve you? As your grip slowly tightens on your…
Anyone planning to spend time downtown or in South Beach this weekend may want to rethink their plans — and fast. With tens of thousands of extra party people here for Ultra, LeBron back in town to play the Heat, and South Beach raging with spring breakers, our already traffic-choked…
Another day in Miami, another occasion to bitch about traffic. In Brickell, it’s so bad that even the valet parkers say their tips have been cut in half because the roads are so congested the cars can’t even get to a damn valet station. One brave Miamian has a public…
When it comes to the future of public transit in Miami-Dade, one thing we’re not suffering for is ideas. Oh, people have lots of ideas. Of course, ideas require studies, and those requires agreements between various local governments and agencies. Then there’s the process of figuring out which ideas are…
How bad is the nightmarish grind of traffic in Kendall? It’s so awful that a group of Kendall residents is demanding a drastic solution: Stop building in the area altogether until mass transit improves. Late last month, the ten-member board of the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations unanimously voted on a…
At the moment, drivers have a single direct option to get to South Beach: The Julia Tuttle Causeway. With the Venetian Causeway still days away from re-opening after a months long closure to fix structural problem, a portion of I-395 between the Palmetto Expressway and the MacArthur Causeway experienced structural…
Miami cyclists finally have a reason to celebrate. The main bicycle link between the mainland and Miami Beach, the Venetian Causeway, will reopen in a little over a week after a nine-month closure for repairs. Karim Nahim, the manager of the Miami Bike Shop, says the store is already feeling…
2015 was a record-breaking year for hit-and-run accidents in the state of Florida last year. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that the state had 92,623 hit-and-run accidents last year, about an 8,000 accident rise since 2014. That resulted in more than 19,000 injuries and a total of 186 fatalties. 18,345 hit-and-runs…
Miami Beach has spent much of February touting its plans to become a more bike-friendly city and splashing bright green paint on one prominent bike lane. So it was curious that today the city’s official Twitter account promised aggressive action against cyclists who dare to lock up to a street sign…
Check your calendars and grease up your gears — or point your car in the opposite direction, if you’re not of in the spokes-and-pedals crowd. It’s the last Friday of the month, which means hundreds of cyclists in Critical Mass will rolling through city streets at rush hour tonight. The…
Anjali Ramkisson, the a fourth-year neurology resident at Jackson Health System who was caught on camera trashing an Uber in Brickell, appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America today to apologize for her actions. The 30-year-old claims she upset that day after her father wound up in the hospital, and her boyfriend…
Downtown Miami has changed immensely in the last twenty years, shifting from a sleepy business district to bustling bayfront of condo skyscrapers, museums and arenas. But one thing has stayed constant: The traffic clogged artery of Biscayne Boulevard dividing most of downtown from the waterfront. Next week, city commissioners will…
A video currently going viral purports to show a woman trashing an Uber driver’s car near Mary Brickell Village over the weekend after a disagreement. According to YouTube user Juan Cinco’s description of events, he and his friends had ordered an Uber through the app, when the woman in the video…
Last week, Uber e-mailed its Miami-Dade customers to not so subtly threaten to pull out of the county if the County Commission passed a ordinance the rider-sharing company viewed as unfavorable. Well, at today’s Commission meeting that ordinance’s sponsor, Chairman Jean Monestime announced that he was pulling the legislation. “Based on…
The dirtbikes, ATVs and motorcycles came to South Florida by the hundreds yesterday, popping wheelies and darting through traffic as they sped across Broward County and then south in to Miami. Police mostly left the mass ride alone as confused motorists took to social media in bafflement. The ride wasn’t…
Another reason why owning a Lamborghini in South Beach is no longer worth it: can you really trust the valets to handle your car with care? According to a few recounts on social media, back on December 29th a valet was tasked with parking a red Lamborghini on South Beach,…
Uber continues to thrive in Miami-Dade despite the fact its technically illegal. After some early attempts to get the ride-sharing service out of town after its initial launch, Mayor Carlos Gimenez decided to let the company, and its competitor Lyft, continue to operate in a legal gray area. On January…
