Reading the internets about the FIU bridge collapse. The Walkable/Bikeable/Huggable/Loveable Streets Movement is out in force saying that instead of a bridge, there should have been candy sidewalks and love trees and bike canals and foot rail and shit. 1/
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I spent a large part of my youth around FIU, and here's the thing: a) it is a blasted hellscape, b) it is as densely developed as interstellar hydrogen. Miami weather is usually, like, 86 degrees and 90% humidity. Also it rains for 2 hours every afternoon, like clockwork. 2/
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You do NOT walk anywhere in Miami, because you live a mile away from the nearest place you might want to go, and because outside switches between 'sauna', 'thunderstorm', and 'swarms of mosquitos and giant flying cockroaches' (sometimes two or three at once). 3/
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The FIU campus is built on a decommissioned airport. It's surrounded by dead space, with a canal and expressway bordering it to the west, and an eight-lane major road bordering to the north. The walkway was built over the latter. 4/pic.twitter.com/sQGA2I7veX
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That section of road has a history of pedestrian accidents -- people in Miami don't know how to cross the damn street, never have -- and something needed doing. What that space doesn't need is landscaping and bike paths. More like walling off. 5/
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In conclusion, New Urbanist snake oil has no place in inland Miami, because you cannot make walking around pleasant in that climate. (Beach is different, bc of density, the attraction of the beach itself, and the microclimate.) All you can do is get pedestrians inside ASAP. 6/
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