Transportation in the City of Miami is about to become more of a shared experience. Following the lead of Miami Beach, the City announced that they'll launch a car sharing program this summer and the Miami Herald reports the city also is looking into the possibility of a bike sharing program sometime in the near future.
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Would rumble strips have prevented Carlos Bertonatti from killing a cyclist?

When Carlos Bertonatti slammed into cyclist Christophe LeCanne on the Rickenbacker Causeway in January 2010, killing the 44-year-old on the spot, advocates begged the County to make the bike lanes safer. Nothing happened. This past February, almost the exact same tragedy repeated: This time, the driver was Michele Traverso and the dead cyclist was Aaron Cohen, but otherwise the story was all too similar.

This morning, the County finally began modifying the popular bike lanes -- with a new strip of "vibratory ridges." Will that really be enough to protect cyclists, though?
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Michele Traverso

The facts seem pretty clear: On Feb. 15, Michele Traverso, a 25-year-old with a suspended license, slammed into two cyclists on the Rickenbacker Causeway after he'd spent a long night drinking in Coconut Grove. Cohen then sped away, leaving one of the cyclists, Aaron Cohen, a father of two, dying on the roadside.

Given all that -- and the fact that security video at his apartment shows him wobbling out of his car -- you'd think Traverso would face DUI manslaughter charges. But you'd be wrong. CBS4 reports that Traverso has escaped the most serious possible charge because police couldn't get a blood-alcohol test until it was too late.
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Michele Traverso

Michele Traverso, the driver responsible for a deadly hit-and-run accident on the Rickenbacker Causeway, made his first appearance in court this morning and voluntarily submitted to a drug test. Despite previous arrests for possession of marijuana and cocaine, Traverso's drug test came back clean.
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Carlos Bertonatti

​When police arrested 25-year-old Michele Traverso yesterday on charges that he fatally struck a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway before speeding away, Miami cyclists felt a tragic sense of déjà vu. Just over two years ago, police say another young driver named Carlos Bertonatti ran after fatally hitting another cyclist on almost the exact same stretch of the bridge.

As the family of the biker killed early on Wednesday -- a 36-year-old dad named Aaron Cohen -- deals with the tragedy, relatives of Christophe LeCanne, who died in January 2010, are still waiting for his accused killer to face trial. Bertonatti has been free on house arrest since December 2010.
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Michele Traverso

​Aaron Cohen, one of the two bicyclist who were injured in an early morning hit-and-run car crash on the Rickenbacker Causeway on Wednesday morning, has died.

Meanwhile, police have arrested the driver Michele Traverso, 25, after he turned himself in early this morning. Traverso was driving with a suspended license and has a history of drug charges.
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​A Florida law requires all bicyclists to keep at least one hand on a handlebar while riding their bike at all times, which, of course, prevents show offs from looking totally awesome. Republican Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff may have been unsuccessful in her attempt to bring Las Vegas-style casinos to Florida this year, but her bill to remove these handlebar regulations just passed the Senate with only a single nay vote.
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​We're not going to say that bicyclists are better than everyone. We're just going to tell you that LeBron James rode his bicycle to work yesterday and then made one of the most awesome slam dunks in NBA history by literally jumping over an opponent. We're going to let you make up you own mind over whether using green transportation gives you super secret special awesome powers. We report. You decide.
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A bike-tire camera catches this SUV nearly running Bereski's bike off the road.

​A few months back, Riptide wrote about Ken Bereski, an IT consultant who's become the Howard Beale to Miami's cyclists who deal daily with life-threateningly awful drivers. Bereski was mad as hell, so he strapped cameras to his bike and started filming all the dangerous driving.

Well this month, Bereski got results: Thanks to video captured on his bike, he helped prosecutors charge a road-raging SUV pilot with felony assault for allegedly trying to run him off the road. Alas, it seems a less than bike-friendly judge is poised to toss the charges today. Click through for the video to decide for yourself if it shows a crime.
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Michael E. Miller

​Well, that didn't take long.

It's only been a few weeks since DecoBike installed its eco-friendly beach cruisers all over South Beach, yet someone has already hacked one in half with a saw.

But despite the vandalism -- and some customer confusion over when to return the silver bicycles -- DecoBike seems to be going strong, with over 20,000 rides so far.
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