Better Streets Miami Beach

Grassroots advocacy dedicated to making our vibrant island the safest & most accessible place for people to bike, walk, & ride transit. [email protected]

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Transit riders btwn South Beach & Miami stand in packed buses for upwards of an hour to cross Biscayne Bay. That's if their lucky enough to even get on.
A few wealthy elite are trying to stop the train. Learn more in today's Miami Herald via @doug_hanks.
https://t.co/STkLBIoX7b

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@jasonprgressive @a2mfk74 Love to think they've thought about this but...
https://t.co/c5fJTrxFps

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Someone please explain these "small" piers* holding up the entire roadway.

* a single pier, centered, relative to the width of the upper deck.

[Branden @PropHunterB]

The double decker being built in Miami is honkers

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@a2mfk74 Right, so what if a fully loaded semi, leaving Port Miami, with a 80,000lb container is stopped on the far-edge shoulder? Or multiple? in the rightmost lane, during a traffic jam?

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@poastlegs What if a loaded semi-trailer (heading from Port Miami) is stopped on the shoulder, on the far edge?

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@kevinamezaga For real. As a sometimes driver, I've never had a speeding ticket, never had a red light camera, nor an automated speed enforcement ticket. Also, never been towed.

Yet, by some politicians, it's presented as a "tax" on working class folks. Are we missing something?

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@Shwnsobased Not the beams -- the single centered pier holding the whole thing up.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@BiznewsPaulB Just to be clear, the rail is already there. It's building the stations and other infrastructure needed to support commuter service.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@NobeResistance 79th street is a no brainer and we've consistently been calling for a stop there.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

This is super exciting news. Mad props to everyone involved that helped make this happen. 🚂🚂🚂

[Transit Alliance Miami @TransitMIA]

🚨Breaking news🚨 The Northeast Corridor is fully funded!

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

$30 burger combo in the Miami-Dade County owned Miami Heat arena.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@1293_roger @doug_hanks Maybe they should take the bus ;-)

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Some @MiamiDadeCounty buses took about an hour to pass the arena last night, after the game ended.

[Joel Franco @OfficialJoelF]

Bugatti just pulled up to Kaseya Center with a police escort 👀

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Worse -- standing on a jam-packed bus, in the same traffic.

[Amy Street 🦢 @Amystreet]

There should be a quest where it’s Art Basel and you’re just sitting on this same strip of highway for 3 hours in standstill traffic

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

$30 burger combo in the Miami-Dade County owned Miami Heat arena.

[Joel Franco @OfficialJoelF]

BURGER SHOT MEAL at the Miami Heat game

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@DanielFrolich01 Yes, agreed. However, MBPD by policy does not engage in vehicle pursuits, for the reason you stated, its dangerous!

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Internet, what do you think of this?

[Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner @StevenMeiner]

Drones, License Plate Readers, and GPS dart technology are some of the many initiatives I have brought to make our city safer. (https://t.co/R0z1Ff88Fk)

This weekend, they all worked together. Our LPR cameras flagged a stolen vehicle entering Miami Beach. Our drone tracked it, an officer tagged it with a GPS dart, and all five suspects were arrested after fleeing.

Technology is a force multiplier. I’ll keep bringing initiatives to make @MiamiBeachNews the safest city in America.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@Kevin_Rutois Def feel that energy down here o the Beach too.... plus the weather ;-)

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

As I said before, I welcome autonomous vehicles, but if they're privately owned, single-occupant vehicles rather than shared ones, they won't "solve" traffic in any way, shape, or form.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

🤔

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Miami Beach spends more, per resident.
FY27: $146mm
Population: ~81,000

[Barak Gila @barakgila]

SF spends double any other major city on its fire department, which is just a bunch of emergency response in a giant expensive truck-sized trench coat.

We should reform firefighter hiring and pay, reduce the number of fighter fighters, give them smaller vehicles, close down 8 fire stations (of 48!) which see fewer than 3 calls per day, and most importantly, stop blindly Respecting whatever they say about single-stair reforms, lane widths, outdoor dining, etc.

My friend reacted to hearing my anti-fire-department screed by asserting that SF firefighters are hot -- I would also support assigning 5% of our firefighters to do PR work at Beaux. They're good with poles.