Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

MORE THAN A HALF DOZEN CARS ILLEGALLY PARK ON THE SIDEWALK AT HISTORIC WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN PARK. THIS HOSTILE ACT PUSHES DISABLED, ELDERL...

IT PUSHES DISABLED PEOPLE AND PEDESTRIANS INTO TRAFFIC MIAMI TRAFFIC, EVEN ON A SIDE STREET, CAN EQUAL A DEATH SENTENCE Blocking sidewalks...

CURB EXTENSIONS MAKE THIS CROSSWALK SAFER FOR ALL   Kudos to these pedestrian friendly, super wheelchair accessible curb extensions. The...

NARROW SIDEWALKS AND PINCH POINTS DESTROY WHEELCHAIR ACCESS FOR MANY SW 37 AVENUE SEGMENTS BETWEEN CORAL GABLES-MIAMI After walking 7 blocks...

BUT EVERY 10 TH STREET HAS A POORLY DESIGN, TERRIBLY BUILT         AND HORRIBLY MAINTAINED SIDEWALK More than half of this sidewalk in a he...

THEY VALUE THE LIVES, SAFETY AND DIGNITY OF PEDESTRIANS BY REQUIRING SCAFFOLDING TO MAINTAIN SIDEWALKS DURING YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT High prai...

CLOSING SIDEWALKS FOR YEARS VIOLATES THE ADA AND EVERY MORAL OBLIGATION TO SAFE MOBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES PLUS ALL PEDESTRIANS Y...

MIAMI CLOSE SIDEWALKS FOR YEARS WHILE PEDESTRIANS, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, RISK THEIR LIVES CROSSING THE STREET TO CONTINUE THE...

IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO MARK AN INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS                   HOLE IN A MAJOR CROSSWALK WITH A CONE When something is capable of trippi...

IT’S THE LAW.  MIAMI BEACH IS VIOLATING IT This bumpy, steep & horrible 20+ feet of tar pretends to be an ADA accessible sidewalk. This ...

FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND OTHERS  WHO FACE CONSTANT   BARRIERS For more than a decade, downtown Miami has been a living hell for peop...

CITY IGNORES CENTURY-OLD SIMPLE SCAFFOLDING THAT COULD KEEP SIDEWALKS OPEN AND SAFE DURING CONSTRUCTION How is it that the bankrupt Clevelan...

WHEELCHAIR USERS CANNOT SEE WHAT’S COMING BEFORE CROSSING    BUSY ALTON ROAD AND LINCOLN ROAD IN MIAMI BEACH Every wheelchair user’s safety ...

TO A SHAMEFUL LEVEL UNAMATCHED BY ANY CITY ON EARTH Wheelchair access is destroyed in the heart of Miami — a block of NE 1st Ave. south of...

A VISITING PLANNER IS SHOCKED BY LACK OF WHEELCHAIR ACCESS I met a well-known urban planner at downtown Miami’s Brightline Station. She wa...

CARS DANGEROUSLY BLOCKING SIDEWALKS ARE NEVER TOWED Welcome to Miami — where we despise pedestrians. Dozens of times I have asked cops t...

CROSSWALKS MADE OF BUMPY PAVERS AND COBBLESTONES  MAKE NO SENSE   If you were designing a place for human being to cross four, sometimes...

FROM ACCESSING A SAVE, PAVED GREENWAY PATH? Here’s an idea. An exclusionary one.  Let’s pave miles of safe pedestrian trails ideal for wheel...

WITH NO WHEELCHAIR ACCESS TO ADJACENT PAVED PATH Cruel and unusual bus stop in Coral Gables. This problem festers on Coral Way at South Gr...

FROM FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION This is how little we think of human beings. Tiny sidewalk space, barely wheelchair width and ch...