Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Miami

Miami Mayor’s Economic Fix: Build America’s Biggest, Tackiest Mall

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 6, 2015 | 20 Comments

Forget what you’ve heard about the death of American shopping malls. Yesterday, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez unveiled plans for a 200-acre megamall complete with “submarines, a Legoland, sea lions and an artificial ski slope.” “American Dream Miami,” as they call it, would be the largest mall in America, according to the Miami Herald. The corporation behind the plan […]

WaPo Transpo Forum: America’s Mayors Aren’t Waiting for Washington

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 24, 2014 | 2 Comments

Atlanta’s BeltLine of bike and pedestrian trails is raising property values in every place it touches. Denver’s new rail line will create a much-needed link between Union Station downtown and the airport, 23 miles away. Miami is building 500 miles of bike paths and trails. Los Angeles is breaking new ground with everything from rail […]

Will Miami Take the First Step Toward Parking Reform?

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 17, 2014 | No Comments

It’s been a long time coming, says Felipe Azenha at Transit Miami, but finally the topic of parking reform is getting some attention in Miami. Eliminating parking requirements for small buildings in Miami could lead to larger reforms — and the elimination of bigger garages like this one — later on. Photo: Mark Hogan via […]

Parking Madness: Rochester vs. Miami

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 26, 2014 | 10 Comments

We’re seeing all sorts of parking craters as the 2014 Parking Madness tournament rolls on: pockmarked craters, endless abysses, deep caverns. Excess parking in cities takes many forms. And so we ask you to help us judge which is the worst, using the only method that can be applied consistently across all parking craters — online […]

Talking Headways Podcast: How Does This Podcast Make You Feel?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 12, 2014 | 7 Comments

This week, Jeff Wood and I get indignant about Miami-Dade County’s misuse of transit funds for roads, and we speculate about why — with the current success of pedestrian projects like Times Square — old-style pedestrian malls are still going belly-up. And then we peek behind the curtain at an exciting new frontier for urban […]

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

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 7, 2014 | 6 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. […]

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