In, Miami was ranked as the 44th-most bike-friendly city in the US according to Bicycling Magazine. The city government under former mayor Manny Diaz took an ambitious stance in support of bicycling in Miami for both recreation and commuting.
Alternatively, nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport also serves commercial traffic in the Miami area. The airport's extensive international route network includes non-stop flights to over seventy international cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Miami International is the second busiest airport by passenger traffic in Florida, the United States' third-largest international port of entry for foreign air passengers behind New York's John F. The station was expected to be completed by, but experienced several delays and was later expected to be completed in late, again pushed back to early The airport is a major hub and the largest international gateway for American Airlines. Two new light rail systems, Baylink and the Miami Streetcar, have been proposed and are currently in the planning stage. Miami Intermodal Center was completed in, and is serving about, commuters and travelers in the Miami area. Several expansion projects are being funded by a transit development sales tax surcharge throughout Miami-Dade County. Miami's heavy-rail rapid transit system, Metrorail, is an elevated system comprising two lines and 23 stations on a A free, elevated people mover, Metromover, operates 21 stations on three different lines in greater Downtown Miami, with a station at roughly every two blocks of Downtown and Brickell. The average single trip distance with public transit is 7.
In, Miami was identified as having the rudest drivers in the United States, the second year in a row to have been cited, in a poll commissioned by automobile club AutoVantage. Miami has six major causeways that span over Biscayne Bay connecting the western mainland, with the eastern barrier islands along the Atlantic Ocean. Route Some of the major Florida State Roads and their common names serving Miami are. One neighborhood, The Roads, is named as such because its streets run off the Miami grid at a degree angle, and therefore are all named roads. Within the grid, odd-numbered addresses are generally on the north or east side, and even-numbered addresses are on the south or west side. Major east-west streets to the south of downtown are multiples of 16, though the beginning point of this system is at SW 8th St, one half mile south of Flagler "zeroth" Street. One prominent exception is 42nd Avenue, LeJeune Road, located at the half-mile point instead. Major north-south avenues generally end in "7" - e. There are 16 blocks to each mile on north-south avenues, and 10 blocks to each mile on east-west streets. Major roads in each direction are located at one mile intervals. With few exceptions, within this grid north-south roads are designated as Courts, Roads, Avenues or Places often remembered by their acronym, while east-west roads are Streets, Terraces, Drives or occasionally Ways. Many roads, especially major ones, are also named e. The Miami grid is primarily numerical so that, for example, all street addresses north of Flagler Street and west of Miami Avenue have "NW" in their address.
Miami's road system is based along the numerical Miami grid where Flagler Street forms the east-west baseline and Miami Avenue forms the north-south meridian. According to the American Community Survey, About 1. Miami is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States. The Miami Herald is Miami's primary newspaper with over a million readers and is headquartered in Downtown in Herald Plaza. The papers left their longtime home in downtown Miami in The newspapers are now headquartered at the former home of U.
El Nuevo Herald is the major and largest Spanish-language newspaper. Miami has one of the largest television markets in the nation and the second largest in the state of Florida after Tampa Bay. Brendan High School, among numerous other Catholic elementary and high schools.