Visual presentation of streetcars to be made

streetcar.jpgConsultants designing the estimated $200 million Miami Streetcar Project will make a visual presentation at the Miami Roads Neighborhood Civic Association monthly meeting Wednesday (January 31, 2007).

Grace Solares, president of the association and newly elected president of Miami Neighborhoods United, said the city hopes to sway the association, which opposes the project.

The association thinks the project is too expensive and is a gift to developers of the Midtown Miami project, who they say would benefit from the streetcar. ”Nothing in the world is going to convince us otherwise,” Solares said.

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NFL: Plan ahead

SUPERBOWL headquarters is at the MARRIOTT BISCAYNE BAY HOTEL…next door.

N. Bayshore Drive will be ONE WAY north
Biscayne Boulevard will be ONE WAY south.

The head of NFL told Dean McCaleb at Trinity Cathedral that it would be impossible for people to attend mass at either 8 or 10 a.m. on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4th.

Hint: plan ahead.

Clubs Making you Boom Boom out of Bed?

nightclubAm I the only one being disturbed by the noise from the Clubs?

Saturday and Sunday mornings I wake up to the “boom boom” any time from 4A to 6A and can’t go back to sleep. I called the NET office a few weeks ago and they said nobody is calling!

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ING Marathon and a Half

Today the ING Marathon and a half was underway in downtown Miami, with our own Venetian Causeway as a major feature of the day’s events. Check out this video from this morning’s race getting started.

To learn more about the ING Marathon and a half, click here.

(Footage: Lonny Paul)

Emergency Environmental Contacts: 911

When you may stumble across an environmental issue, it’s important to remember two things:

  • 1. If it happens ON LAND or is running FROM LAND, then it’s the EPA;
  • 2. If it happens in or on the water its the Coast Guard.

I shook my head, but what the heck - GW has already screwed everything else up. Below is the FULL notification protocol as recently updated (Jan 2007) by the Northeast and Eastern Central Florida Oil and Hazadous Substances Contingency Planning..


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Storm Clouds…

Today’s stormy weather was just dreary… but yet beautiful, check it out.