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Thursday January 31, 2008
A great article on the state of cycling in Miami in the New Times. Good news: a burgeoning bicycle-activist movement, lots of riders. Bad news: complete apathy and ineptitude by city planners (I still can’t get over the fact that they re-did Biscayne from scratch and didn’t include bike lanes).
The new extension of nw 127 av from 12th to 25th has a bike lane, although construction is not finished yet. There’s also a new bike path from 107th to almost 87th, just north of the dolphin, although, like in the article, the path simply ends in the approach to an intersection, leaving the cyclist in the middle of the road.
I bike regularly and have attended the saturday rides. Miami has some deeply rooted problems that are going to take years and a cultural change that will allow it