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

[Miami Today @MiamiTodayNews]

Derailed Tri-Rail funding back on track

Embattled Tri-Rail, which has been adding riders as its financial future was undercut in Tallahassee, got a new lease on life Friday as next year’s state budget restored $60 million in Florida funding for passenger rail.

https://t.co/saK9VAObrI

#MiamiTodayNews #TriRail #FloridaTransit #PublicTransportation #TransitNews #MiamiToday

[Elaine de Valle @newschica]

🚨BREAKING: Late Wednesday, @PortMiami director Hydi Webb and #MiamiDade Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Morales resigned and it is apparently over the big epic fail they made by not buying the fuel depot on Fisher Island. More to come on #PoliticalCortadito

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@aaron_leib When an internal dispute among investors becomes a statewide issue.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

For once, a driver lane diving and not causing a crash!

[ONLY in DADE @ONLYinDADE]

What are you doing in this situation? 😳👇 | #ONLYinDADE

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@tomaskenn Do the cruise lines have no role here? Aren't they responsible for their fuel? BTW, many are shifting to cleaner (but not clean) burning LNG...

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@TODNewsHub Miami (see Brickell) is known for comically narrow clear pedestrian paths... The effective width may just be a few feet here? 3-5?

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

That ground level setback is beautiful... how narrow will the sidewalk become once the tables/chairs are out?

[GrowingMiami 🦩 🌴 @growingmiami]

The Standard Residences 🔴 sidewalk in Midtown will soon be filled with al fresco dining Miamians 🌴.

With a ground floor that is already completely leased, three new quality culinary destinations will call it home:

Rosetta Bakery 🍞
Sushi Garage 🍣
Mannarino 🥩 (1st US location 🇮🇹)

Which are you most looking forward to?

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Some tough decisions on Miami Beach this budget season....

[Doug Hanks @doug_hanks]

Well it *could* have been worse. Prelim value estimates out for Miami-Dade from Prop Appraiser Regalado. Countywide growth: 5.5%. County budget forecast a 7% increase.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@ONLYinDADE When ?

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@harlem_resist Our cargo bike has a 500w motor. We see kids riding around on bikes their parents bought, online, with motors over 10x as powerful!

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Many of these projects, including first street, have ballooned in cost because of special interests pushing for certain design changes -- to the determinant of the wider community.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Betteridge's law ... strikes again. The answer is no!

[Aaron Leibowitz @aaron_leib]

Can Miami Beach fix pipes and stop flooding without raising costs for residents?
https://t.co/U3W1KoR8wj

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Those cities have extensive (and/or expanding) transit networks. Miami's is stagnant...

[Lost Nomad @lost_nomad__]

Miami is a 21st Century city. And probably our premier one

Los Angeles is a mid-late 20th Century city. NYC & Chicago are early 20th Century cities

Philly and Boston are ancient, albeit fashionable

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

This is the game-changing transit you get in Miami...

[GGI Project – FDOT @GoGGI_FDOT]

POV: Miami traffic just got a game-changing upgrade.

Ramp J is now open, creating a new direct connection from eastbound S.R. 826/Palmetto Expressway to northbound I-95 — helping drivers skip local street detours and keep moving through the Golden Glades Interchange.

Just in time for Miami’s match-day era.

Visit: https://t.co/9jkyBvuyXY for updates #GoGGI #FDOT #WorldCup2026 #MiamiTraffic

Alt Text: A fast-paced reel featuring drone footage, traffic scenes and the newly opened Ramp J connection at the Golden Glades Interchange with World Cup-inspired audio and text overlays about improved traffic flow.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Quick measure with gmaps shows the right of way is ~100 feet, about the same as Washington Avenue in South Beach. The scale, massing, and facade articulation works there, and could work here.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

This is the apartment building where there used to be a Burger King with zero units of affordable housing.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

This trip probably could have easily been by public transit, if we had a train....

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@politicuba @ONLYinDADE horrible take

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

Instead we''ll be sold anything but... waymos, drones, gondolas.. not proven strategies at low cost per passenger...

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

This trip probably could have easily been by public transit, if we had a train....

[Brickell Finance Guy @IronChestCap]

@ONLYinDADE getting hit by a Vespa because your Uber passenger whipped the door open mid-Fifth St is the kind of thing that happens when because the entire city is operating on 4 hours of sleep and Celsius.

[Better Streets Miami Beach @BikeWalkMB]

@doug_hanks @MayorDaniella Betteridge's law of headlines -- if you have to ask the answer is probably no.