Miami Beach Wants Affordable Housing, But Won’t Remove Parking to Get It
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Putting housing on top of parking garages, rather than replacing car storage with housing, would be a missed opportunity for walkable Miami Beach.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Miami
Miami’s Future Should Be Transit and Walking, But the Mayor’s Focused on Robot Cars
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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.
Reimagining Miami’s Waterfront Speedway as a Street for People
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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.
A Single Florida Bureaucrat Might Kneecap Miami’s Commuter Rail
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Tri-Rail is facing insolvency -- all because a single state bureaucrat is threatening to throw the agency's otherwise stable finances into turmoil.
Miami’s “Underline” — The Vision for a 10-Mile Greenway Beneath the Rails
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The idea for Miami’s “Underline” came to Meg Daly after she broke both her arms in 2013. Unable to drive, Daly, who lives in Coral Gables, started taking Miami’s Metrorail to physical therapy. When she got off at her stop, she would walk the last mile under the shade of the elevated rail platform. “I just […]
Miami’s Golden Opportunity to Bring Commuter Rail Downtown
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Opportunities like this don’t come around very often. Traffic-clogged Miami is tantalizingly close to a commuter rail extension that would link its northern suburbs to the heart of downtown. But the city needs to secure $30 million in the next few months to make it happen. The region has a commuter rail line called Tri-Rail that runs 72 miles north to […]