Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Miami

Real Estate Trend: Parking-Free Apartment Buildings

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 10, 2013 | 51 Comments

A wave of new residential construction projects in places like Seattle, Boston, and Miami are showing that, yes, modern American cities can build housing without any car parking on site. Officials in Boston gave their approval last week to what Curbed called the city’s “first big-time parking-less condo,” a 175-unit project named Lovejoy Wharf. The “plan was met with […]

Miami Travel Blog Warns Pedestrians, “We’re Not Stopping for You”

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 15, 2012 | 28 Comments

UPDATE: We have been informed by the editor of the website that the article was intended to be satire and “warn” “naive” out-of-towners about Miami’s dangerous roads. Satirical or not, it’s clear that road conditions in South Florida are pretty screwed up. Seems to us, it’s drivers who should be warned. At first we were […]

Feds on New Miami HOT Lanes: Good for Transit

By Elana Schor | Jan 22, 2010 | 2 Comments

Miami’s conversion of HOV lane space to new high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes as part of the federal Urban Partnership program, which also prompted New York City’s congestion pricing push, is cutting travel times for local transit and boosting use — but overall bus ridership in the corridor has stayed static, according to a new report […]

Why Buy More Trains If You Can’t Afford to Run Them?

By Elana Schor | May 27, 2009 | 7 Comments

Down in balmy South Florida, D-Day is approaching for riders of the the popular Tri-Rail transit system. A looming $18 million shortfall has forced the Tri-Rail board to approve a budget that slices daily service and stops all trains by 2011 — although ridership has doubled since 2005. Tri-Rail trains like these could stop running […]