This audio report form WLRN in Florida looks at the frustrated bicycling community that mobilized to create the city's bicycling master plan, up for approval this week.
"Miami city commissioners this week will vote on Mayor Manny Diaz' ambitious bicycling master plan. The 20-year effort aims to turn Miami from one of the least biker friendly cities in the country into a biker's paradise. The plan is being presented this week, but as WLRN Miami Herald reporter Kenny Malone reports, the plan stemmed from a frustrated constituency."
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