Never been to Miami til this past week. This is what I found, forum-wise;
- Bike lanes
- Covered parking decks
- Pedestrian bridges
- Urban retail
- Historic mixed with modern
- Roof top dining
- Tall buildings
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There are a lot of things that Miami has done that Raleigh can mimic. IMO, South Beach is an excellent example of how to do people centric urban without rail transit.
There are more bike lanes than it usually gets credit for having.
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No, I didn’t bring it with me. I travel ridiculously light because I do a lot of moving around and like to stay mobile and low key. If I’m only gone for a week or so, I just bring a backpack and buy whatever I need when I get to wherever I’m going. Lame, I know. 
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A lot of the towns and cities between Miami and West palm feel much more urban than the typical US city especially within a couple miles of the beach. Just lots of density with high rises and multifamily buildings and above average sidewalk networks. I think the only thing the region lacks is a density of rail transit and meaningful development around the transit they do have.
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This was early in the morning, as I was walking to a McDonald’s for Breakfast.
Yeah, like what do they have against mustaches and poodles?? And what did a moped ever do to someone??
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I’m more curious about where one might be able to obtain random hand grenades…
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Perhaps they’re worried about all those elements being combined. Mustached men with guns and grenades riding a poodle-driven moped? Sounds like a recipe for chaos!
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After reading @GucciLittlePig’s reply, I realize you’re supposed to combine these things in some order for “do not do” or “prohibition”. So poodles with mustaches for instance would be a no no.
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I miss Home…NYC. Brooklyn
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On the 10+ hour train ride to NYC and only wish we had newer trains like this new Acela train set seen in Philly.
Maybe one day the trip can be cut to 8 hours then 5 hours then 4 hours? A shinkanshen style system will do this route in under 3 hours.
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That Raleigh is terrible!
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The creator must be one of those “Rayleigh” folks
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I Raleigh miss ya’ll.
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After giving Charlotte some love the other week, CityNerd’s newest video puts Charlotte back in its place. He also renames Atlanta as Extra-Large Charlotte.
If the Triangle gets recombined at the MSA level and even more counties get added, we won’t look so good when compared in the future. As it stands now, Raleigh’s MSA is physically tiny compared to Charlotte’s.
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I expect Raleigh’s numbers might be better than Charlotte’s but still very bad.
The more compact metro area, higher municipal densities, and large nondriving student population would positively affect vehicle miles per capita though I feel like the aggressive sprawl in outer Wake is making it worse.
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Those car miles per resident were based on entire MSAs and Charlotte’s is particularly large and spread out. Raleigh’s current MSA is physically tiny so it doesn’t suffer from as much exurban sprawl in its data.
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Looks like Buc-ee’s is trying again in NC.
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