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• New HistoryMiami Exhibit: Opa-Locka: Mirage City

  From our community’s superb historical museum, HistoryMiami, comes a new exhibit: Opa-Locka: Mirage City

  June 28, 2013 – September 08, 2013

  Opa-locka: Mirage City explores one of South Florida’s most unique architectural communities. Based on stories and names of characters from the Arabian Tales, Opa-locka presents itself as both [...]

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• Overtown Commissioner Knows Her Highway History: FDOT Fails!

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  The decisive role of the highways in determining the fate of Overtown a half century ago is not lost upon City of Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones.

  The southern part of Ms. Spence-Jones’ District #5 (marked in pink the map below) covers Overtown, and she’s clearly had a history lesson or two [...]

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• Highways and the Decay of Once Glorious Overtown

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  Our local public radio station, WLRN, published a fantastic, must-hear/must-see piece this morning on  “How I-95 Shattered the World of Miami’s Early Overtown Residents”.

  In it, reporter Nadege Green of WLRN / The Miami Herald makes some excellent inquiries into' [...]

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• City of Miami’s 2013 Transportation Summit Video

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  The City of Miami’s Office of Communications released yesterday a short video on the Citizen’s Independent Transportation Trust’s (CITT) 2013 Miami-Dade Transportation Summit.

  The elevator music and 1980′s electric guitar riff can be a little hard to endure, but it’s nonetheless interesting to have a glimpse at the City’s perspective on [...]

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• Poll: Who Should Control Miami’s Downtown Streets?

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  The City of Miami will be voting today on Resolution #13-00581.

  This resolution would formalize the transfer of Brickell Avenue — arguably the most economically important thoroughfare in Miami — from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to the City of Miami, [...]

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• Why Does FDOT Want Our Streets?

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  At last week’s 2013 Transportation Summit, Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 6 Secretary, Mr. Gus Pego, was in attendance.

  Gus Pego, FDOT Secretary, District #6.

  This was my first encounter with Mr. Pego in person and, despite the criticism we tend to launch at [...]

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• Dear FDOT: Stop Trying to Take Our Streets!

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  Tomorrow, on Thursday, June 13, the City of Miami City Commission will consider Resolution #13-00581.

  This resolution would formalize the transfer of virtually all of downtown Miami’s Brickell Avenue from the jurisdiction of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to the jurisdiction of the City of Miami.

  Think about [...]

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• TransitMiami = Best Blog in Miami 2013

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  The word is out! TransitMiami was declared best blog in The Miami New Times’ annual “Best of Miami 2013″ feature: “The Sunshine Strikes Back”.

  We were fortunate to learn of this late last week, when The New Times published it’s Best of Miami preview, which [...]

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• A Message from the Editor

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  Transit Miami is honored to have been named the best blog in Miami for 2013 by the Miami New Times. We’re privileged to be recognized by our peers and the community as a leading voice on urban development and transportation issues in South Florida. This distinction provides us with [...]

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• All Aboard Florida! Downtown Miami Map Preview and Rail-Trail Poll

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  Miami is undergoing one of the most magnificent metamorphoses in its history.

  One of the impetuses of this transformation is the Florida East Coast Industries’ (FECI) corridor project called All Aboard Florida. The project will link Miami and Southeast Florida to Orlando and Central Florida.

  It’s a very big deal.

  The fine folks [...]

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