Thank you for the opportunity to present our department’s Open Space Master Plan to your organization last night. The group was great, had very poignant questions and they were incredibly engaged during the talk. Please pass on to your folks that they can contact me for a follow-up or to address any questions.

As always it is great working with you.

Regards,
Kevin

Kevin M. Kirwin
Assistant to the Director
Miami-Dade County, Park and Recreation Department
275 NW 2nd Street, 5th Floor
Miami, FL 33128

Kirwin@miamidade.gov

A retired Hialeah policeman, Glenn Rice, let himself be videotaped the other day trying to cross the street in downtown Miami Springs. Looks like he never did get that cup of coffee.

Thanks to Theodore D. Karantsalis for the video.

Eight riders completed a 12-mile circuit on the M-Path tonight in Green Mobility Network's first organized ride. The hard rain at the scheduled start time kept a few people away, but we waited it out at Panera Bread and wound up having a very nice time. Two of our number had owned their bikes for less than a week, and one was a great-grandmother who has been riding for decades. Our turnaround point was Bird Road, shown here.

All three candidates in the June 9 South Miami City Commission election responded when Green Mobility Network asked for their views about bicycling in the city. Green Mobility takes no position on the relative merits of the candidates or their answers, but if South Miami is where you vote you might take a look for their answers in the June 2 entry at http://spokesnfolks.blogspot.com.

As the century-old General Motors enters bankruptcy court, it's a good time to review the company's role in making the U.S. public transit system the worst in the industrial world.

If you'd like to purchase this 55-minute documentary for your own collection, see http://www.newday.com/films/Taken_for_a_Ride.html

We are celebrating today after the Miami-Dade Commission's vote to transfer $700,000 in order to repair the bone-jarring damaged pavement along parts of the M-Path. This money may also cover planning new signals at one or more of the troublesome street crossings near U.S. 1 between Vizcaya and South Miami.

I encourage you to thank your county commissioner. Their phone numbers and e-mail addresses may be found through http://www.miamidade.gov/commiss/.

The work that today's vote enables is just part of the safety and convenience upgrade outlined in the M-Path Master Plan, a conceptual outline of what the 23-year-old path needs to make it right for pedestrians and bicyclists along the entire nine miles from the Miami River to SW 67th Avenue below 80th Street.

We remain alert and determined to see the full Master Plan carried out, and to find a way to close the Dadeland Gap, that daunting 1.1-mile stretch of the path that never was built. We need and welcome your help. You may use the "contact" menu above to get in touch.