๐ Good for your tan and waistline
Commissioner Fernandez went on holiday y'all! And fell in love with some of those slow, car free streets. Also! Two items need your advocacy TODAY
Real quick before we start, TOMORROW WEDNESDAY, 10/19/2022 โ The Chase Avenue Shared Path needs your support at the Public Safety, Neighborhoods, and Quality of Life Committee Meeting. We need to voice our support for this wonderful and transformative path by sending our local Commissioners emails and calling into the meeting. SECOND: Our Friends at Better Streets Miami Beach are hosting a workshop this Thursday evening to discuss the upcoming West Avenue Project. Click the link to RSVP and learn more.
Public Safety and Neighborhood Quality of Life Committee
When? Wednesday, October 19, 2022ย ย 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where?
Virtual: https://miamibeachfl-gov.zoom.us/j/87833352956
1.312.626.6799 or 1.888.475.4499
Access ID 87833352956#
In Person: City Hall Commission Chamber
Click here to send an email to the Commissioners on the Committee encouraging them to support this project!
Last month, Commissioner Fernandez went on vacation to Italy, saw the light and joined the movement! Three cheers for him becoming the Slow Streets sponsoring Commissioner, thank you!
If our Commissioners can love cities with slow, safe streets not dedicated to cars when on vacation, they can certainly love โem at home too! (We sure do). And itโs true! Streets that encourage you to bike and roll more are good for your waist line! (and of course just your general health and well-being).
โHow do we get it done?โ, you may wonderโฆ?
The Chase Avenue Share Use Path
A small project with a huge impact. This path will connect the new FDOT mobility path along Alton Road with the mobility network within the Bayshore neighborhood. This new connectivity and network in Mid Beach will be great for pedestrians, cyclists, rollerbladers, and even drivers (because there will be less folks needing to drive).
The blue path below is the shared use path we are advocating for on Wednesday. The red path is the FDOT Alton Road Project it will connect too. The connections this will drive! Sunset Harbor will be connected to Mid Beach and further North! All the new Pickleballers playing at the Miami Beach Golf Club will have a safe route.
WHAT WE ARE LISTENING TO
A few years ago, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett and their two children moved from Vancouver, Canada, to Delft, a small city in the Netherlands where 80% of journeys are taken by foot, bicycle, or public transit. Their new book, Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, is about what it's like to live in a truly low-car city, and how other cities can capture some of the same benefits.Reading the book was a joy for me -- it reinforced so many of my priors! -- so I was excited to talk to Melissa and Chris about how to design streets for people, the connection between urban infrastructure and social trust, the flourishing that Dutch children enjoy, and the myriad evils of cars.