Partners float a heads-up idea for Miami-to-Beach transit
A display at a transportation summit last week laid out a tempting and innovative solution to unraveling Miami-Dade’s tangle of traffic woes. After a two-team competition for cutting-edge solutions days…
Revolutionary end to Miami’s gridlock takes familiar route
Watching a 16-week competition to solve Miami’s mobility crisis we expected the revolutionary: overhead gondolas, waterborne transit, autonomous vehicles or a technology we’d never even heard of. So when the…
Bus drivers need a new way of working – like showing up
As Miami-Dade tries to fund more mass transit, what we already have is bleeding riders because of poor service and faltering equipment. County officials blame fund shortages, but they’re spending…
A timely and wise route to more great candidates for office
Commissioner Dennis Moss’s concept that an independent body set salaries for Miami-Dade’s mayor and commissioners couldn’t be wiser, or more timely. It couldn’t be wiser because officials shouldn’t seek raises…
Act now on eye-opening study of rife county absenteeism
If everything local government does seems to cost more than in the private sector, one pivotal reason might be that county employees are paid so many more days to stay…
Smartest step in Smart plan may be how to get riders back
It’s well past time for County Hall to tell the public why transit riders are disappearing in droves and what the county is going to do to reverse that exodus.…
Connectivity key in building our next generation economy
Amazon’s announcement that the company will build a second headquarters in North America led to almost every major city across the US scrambling to put together the best package…
Those new towers are great, but where’s the new mobility?
Why does government keep approving far taller towers in Miami-Dade when we’re driving on the same old traffic-choked roads with inadequate mass transit? Most of us have asked that question…
Follow New York’s transit lead: look to ferries plying bay
We’ve heard the plea for years: if only Miami had rail like New York’s subways we’d unsnarl traffic. So we crafted the Smart plan, six legs of rail to stitch…
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