A: It's the traffic, stupid!
Q: What's the reason so few people in Miami bicycle even though it's warm all year and the terrain perfectly flat?
Whether it's out of fear of getting crushed by two tons of speeding metal, the clueless motorists or the near-total lack of bike lanes, Miamians have long been notoriously bike-averse.
So what's a car-choked town to do if it wants to join a growing trend and foster safe cycling for recreation and transportation?
You do what the city of Miami -- incredibly, perhaps -- is starting to do.
First, you draw up a bike plan for the first time ever: identify suitable streets, create bike lanes and signage, provide bike parking and print up ''bike-friendly'' maps.
And then, to show that people do want this, pick a day when main streets in the center of town can be closed to cars and turn them over to the citizenry to freely bike, walk, skate, jog, congregate.
Say, Sunday, Nov. 9.
Read the complete story at the miamiherald.com
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