Rickenbacker Causeway bike safety was casualty of Plan Z public land grab

Rickenbacker Causeway bike safety was casualty of Plan Z public land grab

Miami-Dade Mayor, Commissioners consider real solutions The ‘if only’ is backwards. After the terrible accident that killed two cyclists on the bike lane in Key Biscayne earlier this month, there are the inevitable grumblings that the county had a chance to make cycling on the Rickenbacker Causeway safer — “if only” they hadn’t killed the […]

Miami-Dade meets on redistricting, private/public deals, MIA contracts

Miami-Dade meets on redistricting, private/public deals, MIA contracts

Holy moly! Wednesday’s Miami-Dade Commission meeting is going to be a doozy. According to the agenda, the last meeting of the year is heavy-loaded with several big ticket items. According to some County Hall insiders, any one of them could turn into a thing. There’s going to be some discussion (read: complaints) on the county’s […]

Plan Z for causeways is back to county commission for change requests

Plan Z for causeways is back to county commission for change requests

Controversial Rickenbacker RFP scheduled for 3 p.m. time certain The polemic push to privatize and redevelop the Rickenbacker Causeway will be discussed again Tuesday at the Miami-Dade Commission meeting. The board will probably drop the Venetian Causeway from the request for proposals, as Commissioner Sally Heyman requested, because it’s really all about the Rickenbacker anyway. […]

More changes, chat coming on flawed, rushed Rickenbacker Causeway RFP

More changes, chat coming on  flawed, rushed Rickenbacker Causeway RFP

It looks like the mobilization of Key Biscayne residents against the redevelopment and privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway has found some success: Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado, who had defended the RFP as a way to fund long-needed bridge improvements, sent a memo to the mayor asking for some changes and more time. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine […]

Key Biscayne crowd heckles Raquel Regalado on shady Rickenbacker RFP

Key Biscayne crowd heckles Raquel Regalado on shady Rickenbacker RFP

Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado took a slew of county officials, including Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morales, to Key Biscayne Wednesday to explain the controversial Rickenbacker Causeway project proposal to concerned Village residents. Let’s just say it was not her crowd. She was heckled and booed for her perceived defense of a controversial request for proposals […]

Miami Beach dodges causeway Plan Z for privatization, but not Key Biscayne

Miami Beach dodges causeway Plan Z for privatization, but not Key Biscayne

Town hall on the RFP Wednesday at Key Biscayne Community Center The Venetian Causeway is going to be cut out of the request for proposals that already went out on the redevelopment and privatization of both the Miami Beach connector and the Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne, which is really what this project was all […]

Rickenbacker RFP looks like a done deal set-up for no-bid Plan Z proposal

Rickenbacker RFP looks like a done deal set-up for no-bid Plan Z proposal

Despite a “listening” session for stakeholders to raise concerns, the request for proposals on the Rickenbacker Causeway overhaul (and privatization) went out exactly as it was first expected to: As a near total replica of the unsolicited Plan Z proposal that looks like a done deal. Guess nobody listened. This is just theater, pretend transparency […]