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It's WEDNESDAY! What's on your menu today?
Good morning! Here is my plan for the day...
bpc and 1 coffee/hwc
2 egg omelet
chicken thighs fried and mustard dipping sauce, celreriac/cauli mash
gluc pudding
B: coffee with half my usual sweetn low,hwc and 1 tbls CO, 5 strips bacon frying right this second!
L: lunch and shopping with my son who I haven't seen in weeks, so out.. Likely ala cart meat entree somewhere, with side salad
D: thawing chicken breasts out, maybe Parmesan fried chicken?
Water unsweetened tea and no diet cokes
Coffee with heavy cream all day.
3 easy over eggs with plenty of butter.
Leftover vinegar chicken, ie; 3 skin on chicken thighs with the cider vinegar/garlic and chicken fat they were simmered in.
3-4 tablespoons of homemade raw butter (a tablespoon when feeling hungry)
Water with meals
I am the most boring person on the planet. I have literally eaten the same meal since Sunday, when my husband and I smoked two giant pork shoulders. Haha. I have no issue with eating the same thing every day, so that's ok with me.
455g pork butt
100g lettuce
1241 cals/106g protein/86.1g fat/3.3g carbs/2.1g fiber
We're planning on smoking a turkey and some sausages this weekend. :D
After my 11 pound gain from weeks of being lax, I have been cheat-free for two weeks and now only 5 pounds from my goal. So, today:
B: English breakfast tea with 1 half-and-half, 2 splenda
L1: Large salad with lettuce, cucumbers, cornishons, olives, artichokes, pickled mushrooms with EVOO and lemon juice dressing
L2: Meat pie made with ground lamb; sauteed red peppers, onions, and mushrooms
S: 1 oz. almonds
D: Going to dinner and movies with boyfriend. Will be really hard to avoid popcorn! Dinner might be a wedge salad with bacon, bleu cheese, red onion, boiled egg and grape
tomato, with buttermilk bleu cheese dressing. I'll add either salmon or sirloin to that.
A few glasses of white wine or flavored vodka sodas.
breakfast: 2 deviled eggs, cappuccino
lunch: ground beef and veggies
dinner: not sure yet, but probably chicken and spinach
B: hot tea
2 hot dogs cheese
L: chicken salad
D: hot wings
salad w/ ranch
Hi all!
B: my new favourite: creme fraiche with almond butter and coconut oil
L: purslane with tuna and feta cheese, saurkraut on the side and olive oil for dressing.
D: more leftover meatloaf and cauliflower, eating the last bit finally, LOL!
Unlike Limetwist/Cristin, I am not a fan of eating the same every day (apart from breakfast).
B-eggs and bologna
L-egg salad on Paleo wrap w/pickle
S-Mac nuts
D-chocolate mousse
B- 4 slices of thick bacon
L- scrambled eggs with melted cheddar, salsa, and sour cream
D- grilled t-bone topped with butter mushrooms and a diet ginger ale
4 coffees throughout the day
Coffee w/hwc, Splenda
Nothing else yet, but made soup last night and that's what I plan to eat when I get home from church
Today I've eaten....
BPC, and another coffee w/hwc
2/3 jimmy dean sausage patty
1 small bag MACS Picante pork rinds (love, love, love!!!)
1 fountain diet coke
1 can tuna patty fried w/ 1 chopped red onion and 3 eggs
the fat from most of the pork chops I fried in oil and butter, plus about 3/4 of a chop, green beans and water chesnuts w/ soy sauce, and egg drop soup.
B- coffee with splenda and cream x2
L- bacon and 2 fried eggs
D- wings, butternet squash fries, and caesar
Big appetite today!!....lots and lots of water
B: scrambled eggs w/cheese & bacon, tea w/creamer
D: Smoked sausage w/peppers & onions
S: Cream cheese jello fluff thing
B. bacon and pumpkin "muffin" with butter. Coffee with co and coconut milk
L. Atkins frozen meal
D. Rotisserie chicken and mashed cauli with butter
S. chopped pecans and key lime seltzer water
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Emerge Miami's 100th Ride: Celebrate Diversity Miami!
What: Emerge Miami's 100th Ride: Celebrate Diversity Miami
Where: Departs from Government Center in Downtown Miami
(111 NW 1st Street, Miami, FL 33128)
When: Meet-up at 10:00AM on Saturday, October 11, 2014
Click on Image Below for Facebook Event Page
From the "Emerge Miami's 100th Ride: Celebrate Diversity Miami" press release:
(MIAMI, FL September 29, 2014) – Emerge Miami's 100th Ride: Celebrate Diversity Miami, will be rolling through local communities on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014, giving people a unique opportunity to learn more about several of our culturally diverse neighborhoods, and to connect with fellow greater Miami residents in a fun and interactive way.
More than 100 cyclists are expected to attend this family-friendly event that will be kicking off Celebrate Diversity Miami, a new large-scale community engagement initiative that aims to promote a deepened sense of connectivity between the culturally and ethnically diverse communities of greater Miami. The group, departing from Government Center in downtown Miami, will visit Overtown, Liberty City, and Little Haiti before concluding with a celebratory picnic at the beautiful, waterfront Museum Park, which recently opened up to the public this summer.
Along the way, riders will first stop by Overtown's Dorsey Park, where URGENT, Inc. has been working on several mural projects documenting the rich history of that community. The second stop is at the MCI KaBoom Playground in Liberty City, where the Miami Children's Initiative has been taking a block-by-block approach to breaking the cycle of poverty by investing in the potential of every child. Then riders will make a third stop in Little Haiti to experience the Little Haiti Cultural Center's recently opened Caribbean Marketplace, an entertainment venue for showcasing arts & crafts, culture, and food. Finally, everyone will make their way over to Museum Park, and come together to celebrate Emerge Miami's 100th ride milestone.
Emerge Miami and Celebrate Diversity Miami are proud to have the enthusiastic support of the Urban Renewal Greater Enhancement National Team (URGENT), Inc., Miami Children's Initiative (MCI), and Little Haiti Cultural Center.
Good Turnout for MDX Highway Open House, More Voices Needed
Turnout at MDX's highway open house last Thursday night was generally healthy.
I'd estimate a solid 80-100 people came through the doors of the West Kendall Baptist Church, eager to learn more about the big new highway project MDX is seeking to sell them on. (I didn't stick around for the whole three hour event, so my count is unofficial at best. Let's hope the numbers were more around 150-200 people.)
The layout of the public meeting was informal, and MDX should be commended for conducting the event in a way that maximized the people's interaction with project staff: Good job on facilitating some community face-time, MDX — sincerely.
Four loosely-grouped information stations were set-up.
- Station 1: "Purpose & Need"
- Station 2: "Process & Schedule"
- Station 3: "Natural Environment"
- Station 4: "Physical & Socio-cultural Environment
Each station had two or three MDX staff members (or staff from one of MDX's contracted consultant firms, e.g., Stantec) on-hand to solicit residents' thoughts and provide (typically diversionary) responses to their questions.
Staff were generally friendly. All good salespeople are.
My underlying concern is that when I asked even the simplest of questions, or when my questions were apparently perceived as not 'softball' enough, I persistently got some variant of the following response: "Oh, this project is just in the planning stage. It's way too early to be making those considerations."
A couple of basic questions to which I received no real response.
- Considering all alternatives, from the least to the most expansive, what is MDX estimating the costs of this highway expansion to be?
- Considering all alternatives, how much does MDX consider the total cost of the tolls to be from the southwest to downtown Miami?
Any response that wasn't overly deflective still didn't register as sufficient justification for a new highway. For example:
- Me: If the underlying problem is that nearly all of Miami's suburbanites commute from the west to the east, why would people want to lengthen their commute by driving farther west, just to ultimately go east again?
- MDX (paraphrased): Well . . . some people already go west onto Krome [SW 177th] Avenue to go back east again.
- Me: Yes, a handful do, but Krome Avenue is currently set to be widened by FDOT, and that will accommodate the relatively few who do.
- MDX (paraphrased): Yes, that's true; Krome is to be widened; but we need to look into whether widening Krome will be enough.
- Me: . . .
MDX was clearly more concerned with selling its message than informing the people of that highway's impact on their quality of life.
That message is clear: "Miami: You need another highway at the far edge of the city, either along, or somewhere beyond, the Urban Development Boundary."
While MDX staff weren't eager to give out any information that could jeopardize their chances of advancing their highway "dream", they were eager to give out free Sunpass receptors (electronic toll collection devices). The way MDX sees it, we'll be needing them.
Many attendees, myself included, made their opposition to the project known via the comment cards distributed by the agency.
Still, more voices will be needed to stop MDX from moving forward with its plans to build more highways in Miami, further constraining our city's ability to liberate itself from its dependence on automobiles.
Labor Day: Free Admission to PAMM via Metromover
From the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) website:
Visitors who arrive to PAMM by Metromover on September 1 will receive FREE museum admission. A PAMM visitors services staff member will be at Museum Park Station with museum passes, good for Monday, September 1, 2014, only.
In observance of Labor Day, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will offer free exhibition tours at 11:30am and 2:30pm. The tours are led by trained museum guides and last 45 minutes.
Will Miamians Allow MDX to Realize its Southwest Highway 'Dream'?
At last year's Citizen's Independent Transportation Trust (CITT) Transportation Summit, Maurice Ferré, former City of Miami Mayor and current Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) Chair, pointed to a map of his agency's current and future projects and declared that it was MDX's "dream" — yes, that's a quote — to realize the proliferating highway vision embodied by that map.
A major feature of MDX's so-called dream includes expanding the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) down through the far southwest reaches of Miami-Dade County. One of the competing versions of the dream would put the newly expanded tolled highway along the Miami-Dade County urban development boundary (UDB).
Tolled highways are generally great, as they create an economic disincentive to single-occupant automobile use. People often respond to the price triggers of tolled highways by turning to more affordable, more accessible public transportation (bus, train, etc.), active mobility (biking, walking, etc.), and alternative mobility (car-pooling, short-distance car-sharing (Car2Go), real-time ride-sharing (Uber, Lyft), etc.) options.
In the metropolitan context of Miami-Dade County, though, these options are either underdeveloped or are just now getting started in earnest.
The Metrorail system, for instance, serves a very limited corridor.
An extensive bus system traverses most major arterial roads moving north-south and east-west, but buses carry a stigma of being either unreliable or unpleasant, or both.
Miamians are increasingly realizing that cycling and walking to their destinations isn't as hard as our automobile-dominated culture would have us otherwise believe. Still, we're many years away from realizing the active mobility utopia Miami has the potential to be.
In light of this shortage of viable mobility alternatives, then, one might think that the toll revenues generated by Miami's highway dystopia would be directed toward investment in better public transportation infrastructure and streetscape amenities (e.g., wider sidewalks, proper bike lanes, etc.).
The problem with MDX, though, is that the toll monies it collects are used for increased highway development and an unwarranted expansion of roadway jurisdiction, not for the sorts of investments that would move greater Miami away from its automobile dependence.
As one of many cases in point: MDX is actively seeking to convert the only bus route in Miami-Dade County even remotely resembling true bus rapid transit, the South Miami-Dade Busway, into a highway falling under its jurisdiction, complete with overpasses and all.
Dumping more money into highways is tantamount to our community collectively signing a 50-100-year contract of servitude to stop-and-go highway hell. And that's not to mention all of the broader economic and environmental ramifications: subsidizing the air-choking, global warming oil and gas industries; the financial crisis-inducing, and obesity-encouraging single-family real estate sprawl sector; the deforestation-promoting rubber sector in the tropics; the list goes on.
Miamians don't have to accept this fate, though. We don't have to sign away our city to this chain of corporate profiteers who refuse to adapt to the innovations in transportation infrastructure and human life demanded by 21st century urbanism.
The very first "Open House: Public Kick-off Meeting" for MDX's Southwest Highway Expansion "dream" will be held in less than two weeks. This is Miami's first real opportunity to voice its concerns about the project's short-, medium-, and long-term impacts.
At the risk of sounding (even more?) cynical, I dare posit that these sorts of meetings are intended primarily to fulfill certain state and federal requirements to maintain minimum transparency levels, as well as to offer just enough opportunity for public input so that any future complaints made when the real impacts of such projects are felt can be expediently dismissed with the standard bureaucratic "We offered the public the chance to speak, and no such concerns were brought up then." By then, it's simply too little, too late.
The point is that the time to speak is now — during this preliminary Project Development & Environment (PD&E) Study — not when this study materializes into an actionable plan and the construction crews are out there at the edge of the Everglades laying out a new highway.
Don't let MDX's highway dream become Miami's prolonged highway nightmare. Be there and speak up!
MDX SR 836 / Dolphin Expressway Southwest Extension
Open House Public Kickoff Meeting
Thursday, September 4, 2014
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Miami Baptist Church
14955 SW 88th Street
Miami, FL 33196
The following post comes from a new TransitMiami-partner blog initiative I started last month: Miami Geographic.
The Editors here at TM were kind enough to give this new Miami Geographic initiative a boost and permit me to re-post the article here.
One can find the original article "Understanding Miami's Metrorail Land-Use" on Miami Geographic.
Thanks for the support, TM!
Miami's rapid transit Metrorail train system currently consists of 23 stations running along a nearly 25-mile elevated, heavy-rail, dual-track corridor.
Opened in May 1984, Metrorail is operated and maintained by Miami-Dade Transit (MDT), an agency of the Miami-Dade County administration.
With Metrorail turning 30 years old this very month, Miami Geographic will be celebrating the anniversary with an in-depth look at how the system works.
Toward that end, I'll be starting here today with what is arguably the single-most important feature of any major public transportation system: land-use.
Land-use is simply the economic purpose for which land resources are utilized, or, stated even more simply, the way humans use land.
Land-use represents the geographic anatomy of a region. It determines the spatial structure and performance of human settlement systems.
To understand the way Miami's Metrorail train system works — in terms of its capacity to move people throughout the metro region and connect them to the various destinations required for them to make a living and sustain their lives — it's critical to understand the land-use configurations surrounding and served by the train corridor.
We're talking about places where people live, work, and play.
A bit more specifically, we're talking about origins and destinations like homes; places of employment; schools, colleges, and universities; grocery stores, pharmacies, restaurants, and other retail locations; churches, mosques, and temples; parks, open-, and green-spaces; sites of extraction, manufacturing, production, and waste management and disposal; and government buildings such as city and county halls, courthouses, and other facilities administering public services; etc.
So let's imagine that the Metrorail transit corridor is actually a large artery for distributing the life blood of the city (people) to Miami's organs (the city's various land-use amenities), each of which contributes to the system's urban metabolism.
Which land-use organs are most supported by flow of people through the Metrorail artery? How well connected are the different organs of the urban system?
Before we jump right into it, let's quickly go over how Metrorail land-use was assessed.
I delineated 1-mile areas surrounding each of the 23 Metrorail stations in two ways:
- Euclidean ("As-the-Pigeon-Flies") Area: regularly-shaped circular areas defined by Euclidean, absolute distances from each Metrorail station, uninterrupted by the on-the-ground impedance realities like disconnected streets, water bodies, and buildings, etc.; in other words, areas defined by distances "as-the-pigeon-flies"
- Network ("Along-the-Street-Network") Area: irregularly-shaped areas defined by the design and pattern of a particular network, in this case the street network, which more accurately reflects on-the-ground impedance realities like disconnected streets, water bodies, and buildings, etc.; in other words, areas defined by distances "along-the-street-network"
The graphic below illustrates the very different geometric outcomes produced when each of these two area-delineation methods is employed. Metrorail's Government Center Station, in the heart of downtown Miami, was used in this example.
Land-uses in Miami-Dade County were reclassified into the following 11 generalized classes:
- Agricultural
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Institutional
- Multi-Family Residential
- Office
- Park
- Single-Family Residential
- Transportation & Utilities
- Undeveloped
- Water
Land-use data for 2014 came from the Miami-Dade County Land-Use Management Application (LUMA), accessible from the Miami-Dade County GIS Self Services platform.
Within each of the two 1-mile area-delineation types – as-the-pigeon-flies and along-the-street-network – the proportion of each of these 11 land-use classes was calculated.
In the station-by-station descriptions below, I make reference only to the along-the-street-network land-use proportions, although those for the as-the-pigeon-flies areas are reported in the maps too.
Let's start at Metrorail's southern terminus.
Dadeland South is the second busiest station after Government Center. The Datran office complex, along with the other offices in the downtown Dadeland area, is represented within the 4.9% of office use. Dadeland Mall, as well as the various other retail and restaurant sites within downtown Dadeland, account for the 13.3% in commercial use. Single-family residential dominates at 31.9%, while multi-family apartments and condominiums occupy 15.6%.
Dadeland North station shares in much of the same land-use amenities as its moniker-sharing counterpart to the south. However, the share of single-family residences is nearly 10% greater. Multi-family residences correspondingly decrease, and despite the presence of the Dadeland Station shopping center, commercial use remains slightly less in Dadeland North than in Dadeland South. Interesting to note is the small, less than 1% agricultural land-use here, as well as the slightly larger proportion of undeveloped parcels.
South Miami station is surrounded predominantly by residential use: 37.7% for single- and 7.9% for multi-family. The City of South Miami's downtown business core is found just across US-1 from the South Miami Metrorail station. Boutique clothing shops, pleasant restaurants offering a range of tastes and price-points, and some popular bars are found adjacent to the Sunset Place open-air shopping center. Even with all that, commercial use comes in at just 6.6%. Offices amount to 4.6%. Assessed at both absolute (as-the-pigeon-flies) or relative (along-the-street-network) 1-mile distances, South Miami station includes the western edge of the City of Coral Gables, including a sizable chunk of the University of Miami's primary campus. That, along with some public, charter, and private schools in area, account for the more than 10% of institutional use.
University station is dominated by two land-use types: residential (especially that of the single-family variety: 33.2%) and institutional (primarily for the University, schools, and religious buildings).
Douglas Road probably has one of the best distributions of land-uses of any Metrorail station south of the downtown core. This part of the urban region, where the City of Miami meets the City of Coral Gables, is one of its most transformative pockets. It's dynamism comes not only from its land-use mix, but also the rapidly transforming real estate and streetscape realities. Construction crews are actively building new condominium/apartment buildings in the area. Currently undeveloped land sits at 3.3%, but that number will be reduced significantly within this year. The immediate proximity to the ultra-luxurious, elite-endorsing Village of Merrick Park outdoor shopping mall has made the neighborhood an increasingly attractive site of investment. This commercial plaza hosts, among other high-end shops, The Collection, where the super-rich can purchase Ferraris and Aston Martins. Commercial accounts for 5.2% of the land-use composition. Coral Gables Senior High School is also within the vicinity, accounting for part of the the 6.9% of institutional use.
Coconut Grove station is over 55% residential (single-family: 29.5%; multi-family: 27.4%). The near even split of single- versus multi-family homes is remarkable to witness along SW 27th Avenue. On the ground, one can find residential structures on both sides of the avenue. However, on the west side of SW 27th, there are large numbers of one- and two-story duplexes. The City of Miami's City Hall on Dinner Key is just within the as-the-pigeon-flies 1-mile area, making the share of institutional use at that geographic unit over 1% higher than for the network-based unit.
Vizcaya station is adjacent to the single-family neighborhood known as The Roads, the historic mansions along the bay and in south Brickell, some high-rise condos, the soon-to-be-relocated Miami Museum of Science, gorgeous City of Miami Alice Wainwright park and, of course, lovely and historic Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.
Brickell is one of three Metrorail stations serving the downtown core of the Miami megalopolis (the others being Government Center and Overtown). Don't be too alarmed by that 6.0% of undeveloped land; much of that is actively being eaten-away by the rising, city-redefining juggernaut that is to be Brickell City Center. Multi-family, office, and commercial space will increase as the phased project continues to materialize before our eyes (and to our collective wonderment). With Brickell serving as the financial business district of our urban core, it's no surprise to find significant commercial (9.6%) and office (7.8%) space. It's an increasingly residential area too, with nearly 20% dedicated to condos and apartments, comprising the largest land-use class in the area: multi-family residential.
Government Center is the station most people know, even those who have rarely ridden the train, if ever. As its name suggests, it's where one can find, well, government. The Miami-Dade County courthouse is there; the US Federal District Courthouse is there; lots of a little court houses and related legal agencies are in the vicinity; all of these government or quasi-government buildings account for the 8.8% of institutional use. Requiring comment is the nearly 10% of undeveloped land in the area, in this, the very heart of the Miami region, the core of the core. That amount of undeveloped land in the center of one of the United States' most important cities, and perhaps the most important city for intra-hemispheric relations, is astounding. However, just as with the current and on-going transformation of undeveloped land surrounding the Brickell station just to the south, most of that surrounding Government Center station is already, or will soon be, undergoing major development.
Overtown is the third Metrorail station offering passage to and from Miami's core downtown, where the distribution of land-uses is about as equal as you'll find anywhere else along the system. Here institutional use (11.3%) occupies slightly more space than multi-family residential (9.5%) and commercial (8.0%). Refreshingly, parks become a bit more significant (6.9%), but one wonders if that's a sufficient amount of public recreation and leisure space for the heart of downtown. For the first time since moving our way through the Metrorail corridor, we start to see Miami's industrial space (3.0%) emerge.
Culmer is an under-utilized gem of a station. Its land-use configuration is also dominated by institutional use (20.9%), most of it being the various medical-educational facilities comprising the de facto and increasingly formalized Miami Health District.
Civic Center station defines the center of, and is most readily associated with, the Health District. The Health District hosts such staples of the community health and local medical industries as Miami-Dade County-operated Jackson Memorial Hospital, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, as well as the UM-owned "UHealth" brand of medical care, not to mention the UM Life Science & Technology complex to further advance UM's aggressive pursuit of a medical and biotechnology empire. The Veteran's Affairs (VA) hospital as well as the Miami-Dade College Medical campus are also both located in the Health District, among many other health-related institutes and organizations. Important to note about the Health District is that it also serves as a secondary government and legal district, second only to that found nearest to Government Center station. Still, significant multi-family units dominate the spaces surrounding these institutional uses. The industrial side of Miami — in the form of solid waste processing, factories, and especially fruit import warehouses — begins to become more apparent as one moves toward the Santa Clara station to the north.
Santa Clara station can be used to access the industrial sector of Allapattah. This station also seems to be the preference for many Miami-Dade Medical Students whose campus is found just off of NW 20th Street.
Allapattah station is a Metrorail system node serving the residential heart of the Allapattah neighborhood, whose single- versus multi-family residential split (24.1% versus 18.4%) isn't too drastic. Standard Miami, along-the-arterial commercial use applies; in this case accounting for 5.7%.
Earlington Heights station is surrounded by a land-use arrangement very similar to that of Allapattah. Notable, though, is the relatively high percentage of undeveloped space: 5.5%.
Brownsville station has an even greater excess of undeveloped land: 7.7%. Continuing with the line of medical analogies: one questions whether an urban system is as healthy as can be when significant pockets of it's space are left unproductive, effectively contributing nothing to the well-being of the system. Undeveloped land so near the heart of the city, and so well connected (via the Metrorail artery) to other urban organs, virtually begs for investment (either public, in the form of say, parks, or private, in the form of business and economic stimulation).
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. station is where we begin to see more clearly that the notion of a purely service sector economy for supposedly post-industrial Miami is a myth. Industrial land-use occupies an even 12% at the 1-mile network unit. The amount of undeveloped space here is also striking at 7.8%.
Northside station is just over 20% industrial. Another fifth is allocated for commercial use (9.0%) and to, well, essentially nothing (in the form of undeveloped land: 10.%). Yet another fifth is allocated for the people living in the single-family homes (21.8%) in the area.
Tri-Rail station is surrounded by industrial (21.1%) and single-family residential (29.6%).
Hialeah station is located just south of the Hialeah Park Race Track & Casino, which accounts for the bulk of the 15.6% commercial use in the area. Otherwise, it's mostly single- and multi-family residential (24.5% and 18.4% respectively). Industrial use (5.1%) remains significant up in these northwest reaches of the Metrorail line.
Okeechobee station is surrounded by still more industrial use (18.1%) and the standard Hialeah mix of single- and multi-family residences.
Palmetto station brings us to the end of the Metrorail line, at least the end of the Green Line. Industrial use is overwhelmingly highest here at a whopping 49.6%.
Miami International Airport station, the newest station in the Metrorail system, is dominated by transportation-based uses of land (i.e., the Miami International Airport and associated facilities). There is indeed a significant percentage of greenspace, which is classified as park (15.5%), but its important to note that this open greenspace is actually a large golf course and country club.
So what can be taken away from these maps and pie charts?
Well, for one, there is a strikingly high percentage of single-family residential space surrounding many Metrorail stations, especially those south of the urban core.
There's also a less-than-expected share of commercial use immediately surrounding the region's primary rapid transit train system.
Park space isn't as abundant, or accessible via Metrorail, as one would expect in a city as predisposed to outdoor recreational activities as Miami.
As the Metrorail system deviates from its primary north-south orientation through Miami and begins it's more east-west movement in the northern sections of the line, we see very high percentages of industrial land-use, not the type of use that is most amenable to facilitating the movement people through an urban system to connect them to their destinations.
While industrial spaces can and do serve as important sites of employment, they don't generate the necessary flow of people needed to optimize major investments in public transportation infrastructure.
The Transportation & Utilities category of land-use is consistently the most, or among the most, dominant land-use classe surrounding each of the 23 Metrorail stations. This is reflective, of course, of the fact that the Metrorail train system is itself categorized as a transportation-based use of land.
However, it also reflects an undeniable land-use reality for the entire region, not just those areas surrounding Metrorail: streets (i.e., impermeable paved roadways, designed, in Miami's case, primarily for automobiles) consume a disproportionate amount of all space in Miami's land-use mosaic.
Again, thanks goes to TransitMiami Editors for permission to re-post this piece from my new partner blog Miami Geographic!
- Matthew Toro
Some TransitMiami readers have expressed a desire to see 'mixed' use mapped out. Well, here it is:
Yes; the results are drastic. At this scale, one almost needs a magnifying glass to even locate the 'mixed use' sites.
Removing the street network helps a bit, but it only makes the disappointing results that much clearer.
Mind you, I've kept the recent series of Miami-Dade County land-use maps at a relatively small cartographic scale to show the relatively large geographic scale area of the entire county.
You can find the related Miami-Dade land-use maps at the links below:
- Residential Land-Use in Miami-Dade
- Commercial Land-Use in Miami-Dade
- Industrial Land-Use in Miami-Dade
- Agricultural Land-Use in Miami-Dade
- Park Land-Use in Miami-Dade
'Mixed' land-use was defined as those subsets of commercial use categories with the following descriptions:
- "Office/Business/Hotel/Residential. Substantial components of each use present, Treated as any combination of the mentioned uses with a hotel as part of development."
- "Office and/or Business and other services (ground level) / Residential (upper levels). Low-density < 15 dwellings per acre or 4 floors."
- "Residential predominantly (condominium/ rental apartments with lower floors Office and/or Retail. High density > 15 dwelling units per ac, multi-story buildings (Generally more than 5 stories)."
Now, one must consider the difference between 'mixed' land-use, and the general land-use mix of an area. The latter concept can also be referred to as the diversity of land-use in a given area.
So, while there is obviously very little 'mixed' use throughout Miami-Dade County, there are significant areas where there is a healthy land-use mix, or diversity of land-uses.
One must also consider the difference between use and zoning, or the difference between the current economic function of the land versus the future or intended purpose of the land.
We'll get into these issues later . . .
Today we're looking at those spaces that breathe life into a city: parks.
I kept it simple: only beaches, municipal-operated, and county-operated parks were included. These criteria effectively excluded the following uses, which are part of Miami-Dade County's default "Park" category:
- Recreational Vehicle Parks/Camps
- Private Recreational Facilities Associated with Private Residential Developments
- Private Recreational Camps/Areas
- Cemeteries
- Golf courses
- Other Nature Preserves and Protected Areas, which, for the most part, are completely inaccessible for public recreation/leisure
- Marinas
And, significantly, this map doesn't show Biscayne National Park, our local, primarily aquatic national park covering the bulk of central and southern Biscayne Bay.
What do you think? Where are more parks needed in our community?
Our Urban Development Boundary (UDB) constrains the encroachment of real estate development — typically in the form of single-family residential sprawl — into our precious agricultural and other environmentally-sensitive lands, such as the wetland and terrestrial ecosystems of Everglades National Park.
The agriculture sector contributes significantly to the local economy. As recently explained in WLRN's excellent series "The Sunshine Economy":
Agriculture generates a direct $700 million dollars a year in Miami-Dade County alone. The economic impact of the plowing, growing and picking of those crops is much larger.
Agricultural land-uses in Miami-Dade County are found primarily in the southwest, in what's known as the Redland Agricultural Area (often referred to as the "Redlands").
One can also find plenty of fruit stands selling tropical and sub-tropical delights, fruits and vegetables that are sometimes virtually impossible to grow in any US region outside of South Florida.
Significant horticultural industries can be found out there too, including processing and packaging facilities for orchids and other ornamental plants.
If you haven't already, visit the agricultural periphery of Miami-Dade County. It'll change your whole perspective of what "Miami" truly is . . .
Even in primarily financial- and service-sector cities like Miami, industrial use of land is a critical component of the urban economy.
Yes; Miami is a 'post-industrial' city, having carved its niche in the world economy after other metropolitan centers had carved their own on the foundation of manufacturing and production, but significant pockets of industrial land-use do exist in the county.
For some, the industrial space is closer than for others.
Just think about your own neighborhood: Is it near one of Miami's industrial clusters, or far-removed where the illusion of a production-free world is more easily accepted?
This industrial land-use map includes spaces used for activities classified as:
- [limestone/concrete] extraction, excavation, quarrying, and rock-mining,
- heavy and light manufacturing,
- industrial office parks,
- industrial-commercial condominiums, and
- junk yards.
If you've never been to one of the junk yards along the Miami River, or in Hialeah, it's time you took a field trip. The industrial side of Miami's economy will become much more apparent than you've ever imagined . . .
We posted a map of residential land-use in Miami-Dade last week. Here's one illustrating commercial use throughout the county.
What patterns, if any, do you see here? Where would you like to see more commercial development take place?
A recent post that grabbed my attention in the Urbanophile was actually a re-post from another blog: Daniel Hertz's Chicago-based City Notes. The piece is called "Zoning: Its Just Insane", and it presents some fascinating maps illustrating the domination of Chicago by land zoned for single-family homes, those most infamous perpetrators of sprawl.
In fact, Hertz's intention with the maps is to make the point that Chicago's 'insane' zoning laws make it virtually impossible to develop anything but single-family homes in most of the Windy City's neighborhoods.
The maps inspired me to put something together for our own community. However, instead of mapping zoning (the way land is regulated to be used for in the future), I thought it'd be best to first look at land-use (the present, on-the-ground societal use of space).
I used 2013 county land-use data. Other than explaining that single-family use is depicted in yellow and multi-family in orange, I'll let the image speak its own thousand or so odd words.
Go ahead . . . let that sink in for a while.
We'll take a closer look at land zoning — which, with all its nuances and myriad sub-classes, is admittedly trickier to map — later next week. Things always get a bit more complicated when we consider what our county and city planners have prescribed for the future of the land.
Happy Spring Miami!
Among the more notable and praiseworthy highlights of this past Saturday's Transportation Summit Community Forum was the commentary made by Mr. Adam Old.
A councilperson for the small Miami-Dade County municipality of the Village of El Portal, and an active member of the recently formed Transit Action Committee (TrAC), Mr. Old was perhaps the only municipal representative at the forum.
He was also one of only a handful of people who sought to redirect the focus of the meeting away from the relatively minor gripes of the transit-riding population regarding issues like rude bus drivers and poorly maintained bus interiors toward the more systemic issues plaguing our poorly coordinated mobility networks.
Some highlights from Mr. Old's comments:
"[What the public] is measuring [the Transportation Trust's] performance on is more mass transit lines. So, I applaud you on the airport link, but we have not seen nearly enough progress on rail. . . . Heavy rail, light rail. . . . Get it going. Get it going. Where are our commissioners? If there's not money in the plan, pull it from the municipalities."
[. . .]
"There should be a line to the beach 10 years ago. There should be a line to the beach 20 years ago."
[. . .]
"Nobody's saying 'Hey! Transit in Miami sucks! And we need it to be better!' That's what we want. We want more money, and we want you guys [the Transportation Trust] to hold our commissioners' feet to the fire for that [half-penny sales] tax. If you have to pull it from road widening projects, then pull it. That's what we want."
Well said, Mr. Old.
The South Florida Community Development Coalition will be hosting a discussion on
Complete Streets in Miami
Thursday, March 6
8:30am -10:30am
The speaker line-up for the event should make for some good, substantive discussion. They've got:
- Jose ("Pepe") Diaz, Miami-Dade County Commissioner,
- Cesar Garcia-Pons, Sr. Manager, Planning + Design at Miami Downtown Development Authority,
- Tony Garcia, Principal at the Street Plans Collaborate and former TransitMiami.com Editor,
- Joseph Kohl, Principal at Dover, Kohl & Partners, and
- Marta Viciedo, Transportation Action Committee (TrAC) Chairperson
There is a fee ($20 in advance, $25 at the door) to attend, but the SFCDC will be using those proceeds for streetscape improvement projects, including tree planting and bike rack installation, on the 79th Street Corridor — a worthwhile investment of your Andrew Jackson.
Be sure to register for the event through the official registration page.
CITT Transportation Summit Community Forum — Saturday, Feb. 22
February 22, 2014 @ 10:00am
Miami-Dade Main Library Auditorium
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
From the CITT website:
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The Transportation Summit Community Forum features the Report on Proceedings, which details the outcome of the 2013 Transportation Summit. The purpose of this gathering is to solicit comments from the public on the Report and the future of public transportation in Miami-Dade County.
Join Miami-Dade County and its citizens in continuing the momentum for a comprehensive and coordinated public transportation system.
>>See the Transportation Summit Community Forum agenda.
For additional information call 305-375-1357 or email email@example.com.
Taking transit to the meeting? Visit www.miamidade.gov/transit or call 305-770-3131 for route information.
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The Growing Pains of an Evolving Transportation Culture: Doored to the Floor
Miamians are taking to the streets on bicycles as they once did prior to the automobile era. Our street spaces and corresponding roadway culture aren't changing as quickly as they should. This contradiction, marking the growing pains of an evolving transportation culture, will continue to result in unnecessary frustration, violence, and misery. . . . All the more reason to ride more: to make the change come faster.
TransitMiami would like to introduce you to our friend Emily. We wish it were under better circumstances though . . .
You see, Emily is one of those intrepid Miamians who — like an increasing number of Miamians across every neighborhood in the metro region — prefers the invigorating freedom of the bicycle to move around the city. Cycling is Emily's transportation mode of choice.
That's great news, of course; something to be celebrated.
Apart from her significantly reduced carbon footprint and her heightened physical and mental well-being, Emily's choice to use her bicycle as her primary means of transport is also advancing a gradual transformation of our roadway culture.
As a practitioner of regular active transportation, Emily is helping to re-humanize an auto-centric Miami whose residents exploit the relative anonymity of their motorized metal boxes to manifest road rage and recklessness with virtual impunity. She's contributing to the much-needed, yet ever-so-gradual, cultural transformation toward a shared, safer, more just roadway reality.
The more cyclists take to the streets for everyday transportation, the more motorists become accustomed to modifying their behaviors to honor cyclists' incontrovertible and equal rights to the road. Likewise, the more cycling becomes a preferred mode of intra-urban transport, and a regular, everyday feature of social life, the more cyclists become conscious of and practice the behaviors expected of legitimate co-occupants of the road.
Indeed, it takes two to do the transportation tango.
And, of course, the more experience motorists and cyclists have occupying the same, or adjacent, public street space, the more they will learn how to operate their respective legal street vehicles in ways that minimize the incessant collisions, casualties, destruction, and death that have somehow morphed into ordinary conditions on our streets.
This cultural shift is one that will take place over several years. Just how many, though, is up to us.
It's no secret: Miami has a long way to go before a truly multi-modal transportation ethos becomes the norm.
Any delay in the inevitable metamorphosis is due partially to the rate of change in Miami's physical environment (i.e., its land-use configurations, street layouts, diversity of infrastructural forms, etc.) being slower than the speed with which Miamians themselves are demanding that change.
So what happens when some of the population starts to use its environment in more progressive ways than the environment (and others who occupy it) are currently conditioned for? Well, bad things can sometimes happen. The community as a whole suffers from growing pains.
Take our friend Emily, for example. . . .
On a beautiful Miami afternoon a week and a half ago, Emily was riding her bike through Little Haiti (near NW 2nd Ave and 54th Street), near Miami's Upper Eastside. She was on her way from a business meeting to another appointment.
A regular cyclist-for-transportation, Emily knows the rules of the road. She was riding on the right side of the right-most lane. She is confident riding alongside motor vehicle traffic and understands the importance of also riding as traffic.
Emily's knowledge still wasn't enough for her to avoid what is among every urban cyclist's worst fears: getting doored by a parked car.
In Emily's own words:
I was riding at a leisurely pace and enjoying the beauties of the day and the neighborhood.
I suddenly notice the car door to my right begin to open, so I swerved and said, "Whoa!" to vocalize my presence in hopes that the person behind that door would stop opening their door.
For a split second I thought I was beyond danger of impact, but the door kept opening and it hit my bike pedal. I knew I was going down, and I had the strangest feeling of full acceptance of the moment. In the next split second I saw the white line of paint on the road up close in my left eye.
My cheek hit the pitted pavement with a disgusting, sliding scrape and my sternum impacted on my handlebars which had been torqued all the way backwards. My body rolled in front of my bike and my instincts brought me upright.
The time-warp of the crash stopped; my surroundings started to come into perspective and as I vocalized my trauma. The wind was knocked out of me, but I hadn't yet figured out that my sternum had been impacted.
I was literally singing a strange song of keening for the sorrow my body felt from this violation and at the same time singing for the glory and gratitude of survival and consciousness.
In all fairness, one could argue that Emily committed one of Transportation Alternatives nine "rookie mistakes" by allowing herself to get doored. She should have kept a greater distance from the cars parked alongside the road, the argument goes. A truly experienced urban cyclist doesn't make such careless and self-damaging mistakes.
Perhaps . . . but we cannot overlook the errors of the inadvertent door-assaulter either. . . . There was clearly a lack of attentiveness and proper protocol on the driver's part too.
Who parks a car on a major arterial road just outside the urban core without first checking around for on-coming traffic prior to swinging open the door?
It's hard to really to lay blame here. And my point is that it is pointless at this stage to even try.
The whole blaming-the-motorist-versus-the-cyclist discourse only exacerbates the animosity that is so easily agitated between the cycling and car-driving communities. The irony is that they're really the same community. Cyclists are drivers too, and vice versa.
At this stage in Miami's development trajectory, our efforts should be focused on pushing our leaders to ask one question: How can we change the transportation environment in ways that will minimize troubling encounters like this?
We can start by creating physical street conditions that encourage more cyclists onto the streets, where they belong, operating as standard street vehicles.
Show me a city where the monopoly of the automobile has been dismantled and I'll show you a city where everybody's transportation consciousness is elevated.
Best wishes on your recovery, Emily.
We'll see you out there in our city (slowly, and sometimes painfully) advancing a more just transportation culture by riding on our streets as you should, even if the streets themselves aren't quite ready for us.
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LAFAYETTE, Ga. — The Chattanooga Street Tavern here can sell beer and wine again, pending a May 9 hearing in Walker County Superior Court to determine whether the business can keep its license to sell alcohol.
Mayor Andy Arnold announced that decision this afternoon to an audience of people who had come to City Hall for an 11 a.m. public hearing about the tavern, which has been closed since last Friday after police Chief Benji Clift banned alcohol sales there.
The LaFayette City Council was supposed to hear the police chief's case against tavern owner Michael Lovelady, who is represented by Ringgold, Ga.,-based attorney Clifton "Skip" Patty. Instead, the parties agreed behind closed doors to send the matter to superior court.
Mayor Arnold said he sat in one room at city attorney David Gottlieb's office while Lovelady and Patty sat in another and Gottlieb shuttled between the two rooms.
Arnold said it made sense for a judge to decide the matter.
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Giglio's professional experiences include special assistant to Attorney General Dennis Vacco; Cattaraugus County Sheriff Department; New York State Deputy Inspector General for the Erie County Sheriff Department; small business owner; and deputy inspector general for the State of New York.
Giglio earned a BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He and his wife, Ann Marie, have four children. [1]
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- foodieX2 Dec 3, 2012 08:11 AM
I freely admit that I rarely scrutinize the bill when I am dining out or even having a few drinks at the bar. I usually glance at the total and then hand over my card or cash.
My husband on the other hand goes over the bill in detail. Drive me crazy but you pick your battles, right?
We have been out to eat probably about 20-25 times since school started in early Sept. Usually they are pretty casual/local places before or after our sons hockey game but at least a handful of times were in "better", more upscale places-again all pretty local thought a few local chains (for Boston folks think Rustic Kitchen or Burtons).
Back in October my husband noticed that we were charged for two additional cocktails we didn't have. The server blamed the bar service for putting someones else bar bill on our dinner check. Sounded suspicious but he took it off and we went on our way. Before thanksgiving we found our bill charged us for a much higher priced steak entree than what we had ordered. The server (different place) said it was a computer error, was very nice about it and removed the higher charge. In both these cases I don't think I would have caught it as the dollar amounts were minor compared to the grand total.
So last night I was out with girlfriend to place we have been a few times before. We each had a cosmo ($12 ea) a glass of wine ($10/glass) we spit an appetizer ($12) and then split a (really great!) pizza ($15). When the bill came it was just under $100 so even I gave pause. When we asked our server she said that unless specified they use their top shelf vodka so the cosmos were $15 each not $12 as listed on the menu and there was a $15 splitting charge (not listed on the menu and we have been there before with no splitting charge). When we questioned the charges, she became very flustered, left and then came back with a manager who made a big deal about removing the charges, how he was making an exception "just this once", blah blah blah.
Granted these are just 3 meals across many but my husband swears that this is a regular occurrence. He said when they see parents with kids (who most likely will rush), people having a few drinks, big business lunches or basically any party that appears they wont be paying too much attention they server has an opportunity to take advantage and many of them will since they can easily place the blame elsewhere if caught.
I don't know, I guess I like to believe most people are honest and that on the rare times it happens it is just error. Am I being naive?
I agree with your ire about "upcharges" that are not stated on the menu. However, I don't get the steak thing. If the wrong order was placed in the computer, how did he get the right dish? A conspiracy between waiter and kitchen seems unlikely - he would have to enter the wrong item on purpose then go back to the kitchen and tell them which one to switch. Hard to imagine that is feasible in a busy kitchen. But maybe it is. Who knows?
re: Just Visiting
It was the petite filet vs the full size so the sides were all the same. Maybe I actually got the bigger one but all I know is that I ate it all, yummy! I don't remember it being much large than expected either. The server was very nice, like I said and didn't question and said she remembered me ordering the petite.
Both my husband and I have analytical minds and scrutinize bills. Always. Not just restaurants but those for clothing, groceries, everything. We have found many errors that were worth drawing attention to. I have been charged too much for grocery items many times. At some stores if they charge too much and you point it out you get that product free. That just happend to me recently again. This has happened to us in restaurants as well, mostly in foreign countries where they add service charges more than once on a bill.
I scan the bill and have never noted an error on MY bill but I have gotten the wrong bill a time or two. Two times recently, one was for a large party and would have been noticed by anybody just for the (huge) dollar amount. Another one would have been in my favor.
Errors and up charges are two very different things. In a restaurant, mistakes happen regularly and I've had it go the other way where I have to point out they didn't charge us for something. But upcharges, those are done on purpose and should be challenged unless in writing that is readable.
It happens often enough that I always check the bill.
At one of the "finer" restaurants on the North Fork someone elses "pre dinner" bar tab was added to our bill. This was one of many errors at this "classy" place and we barely got an apology so we don't go back.
Overestimating the tax is another common error.
Being charged for items that were ordered but the restaurant had "run out" of is another boo boo.
I don't take out a calculator but do skim the check and add it in my head. Most errors are blatant.
I've never had the feeling that the overcharging was intentional.
I check pretty regularly and thoroughly and I don't see a lot of this. But I go to lower-end, casual places. If anything, I see small items left off the bill, whether by accident or comp.
I would not return to the place with the vodka and splitting charge issues because I would be completely turned off. If I order an item and don't specify the upgrade, I'm ordering what's on the menu and should not have to clarify that. The splitting charge sounds high relative to the cost of the items, even if it had been listed on the menu or mentionned to you. Since it wasn't, I again have to call foul. That place would not get a second chance from me. They're either completely desperate for cash or they're doing it all the time with larger tables/bigger bills and made a serious misjudgement that you wouldn't notice the difference on such a small bill (5 items and 3 upgrades/extra charges???)
Seems like you are talking about two completely seperate issues:
Your last example split plate charges/top shelve booze upgrade-
you should never be charged for something that isn't either on the menu of mentioned at the time of ordering. If they're going to chage split p[late fees that is entirely reasonable but if they don't make you aware of it you are completely correct to ask for it to be removed.
The upgrade to the price of the cosmo seems to be working in reverse to common practice as well. If the cosmo is listed on the drink menu as $12 that is what you should be given and charged for unless they ask you to specify a brand and you do. Many people don't necessarily realise that once you specify a call brand the price will go up.
Example: You order a gin and tonic listed at $5, the server asks if you would care for Damrak gin, you say yes. The $2 upcharge is added making your drink $7.
The others sound like common mistakes and errors that, so long as the staff fixes the issue politely and without fuss, you should just default to believing the errors to be honest.
that said, you should always check you bill as these mistakes are really very easy to make.
re: FrankJBN
This is my experience, also. The cashiers at my neighborhood grocery store have been known to charge me twice for the same item. Unintentionally, I'm sure - they're just idiots. But on a recent trip to Whole Foods, my total seemed suspiciously high. It turned out that I was overcharged for everything sold by weight: my pound of coffee mysteriously became 2.5 lbs, etc. The weight increases were different for each item, so it's not that something was resting on the scale. The person who helped me correct the bill said that sometimes the scale just "goes off." I don't quite believe that, but I can't think of any other plausible explanation.
re: small h
Not necessarily idiots: they could be under pressure, or stressed out for some reason. I've been a cashier, and I'm sure I've made mistakes on occasion. That's why I always count my change.
re: tardigrade
I've also been a cashier, which is how I know the difference between making a mistake because you're rushing or distracted, and making a mistake because you're simply clueless and also don't give a damn. The cashiers at my local supermarket are the latter. You'll just have to trust me on this.
re: small h
But clueless means less likely to cheat you on purpose....that would take planning.
re: small h
I have experienced electronic scales going wacky. I only realized it when the the customer had jotted the wrong PLU # on a bulk item. Had to look up the correct # , void and then re-ring. The second time the scale gave a different weight...it happens.
re: meatn3
Good to know, as I will need an explanation for my holiday weight gain. Blame the scale!
re: small h
Absolutely! The only possible explanation for why my weight changes from morning to night...
I check my bill from the hotel, restaurant, grocery and I have found error in about 40-50% of the time...from a stats perspective, that is extremely high and being the conspiracy chick that I am, I gotta say that imho, the restaurant is scamming.
On the issue of the split charge of $15 and its not on the menu and your being charged..that would go so far up my ass..for one, its exorbitant and two, you can't just randomly charge a fee unless it is written somewhere in plain view and also would be helpful that the server mentions this to, so there is no surprise.
When you order a $12 Cosmo and the server takes it upon themselves to upsell you automatically to the top shelf brand, that is your decision, not theirs..so many scams going at this place, imo.
Don't you hate the manager that makes you feel your the Dbag..
Personally, I would get a hold of the owner and let he/she know the situation.
re: Beach Chick
Persnally when the manager is clearly in on it I assume the owner is too. The only reason to get in touch would be to let them know they're losing my business. But honestly, when a person or business is wandering that far into "grey areas" they are usually completely entitled and will rationalize their behaviour - it's a tough business, they'd go broke otherwise, the table didn't order adequately, women are bad tippers - etc.
re: Beach Chick
I'd have to take some exception to this statement: "you can't just randomly charge a fee unless it is written somewhere in plain view"
It is completely acceptable for a restaurant to let a guest know verbally of fees that are not in writing. In today's culture you couldn't make a menu that addresses all the common special requests without turning it into a book. But it must be mentioned, you can't just charge.
re: RichardBreadcrumb
Truth in menu laws..
I'm bad, i figure people are basically honest. I also always thought that the server was also responsible to check the tab before it gets to me, but this shouldn't relieve me of checking too. I guess i'm going to have to be more careful from now on. so sad.
I am an extremely honest person (give money back if too much change, point out if something is not on my bill etc). I also make mistakes once in awhile. When I went to work in a retail store that was often very busy, I made all sorts of mistakes--overcharging (hit a key too hard and $10 becomes $100), undercharging (same idea), leaving an item out of the bag (which was then held with all the info we had hoping the buyer would return)--but none of them were intentional and were solved if possible. I also dealt with customers who got something for free because I believed them when they said the item wasn't in their bag, took back items that turned out to be used but customer said they weren't, was screamed at by people who wanted to return things we didn't sell and was accused of trying to steal a guy's money when he got confused about his change. So, stuff happens on both sides. Some are honest mistakes, some are inexperience, some are incompetence and then there are those that are true dishonesty. Sorting it out can be difficult.
I've never been in a bar where they automatically give you "top shelf" unless you ask for cheaper. It's always the other way around. I'd be really suspicious of that explanation. And 15 dollars for splitting an appetizer ( isn't that expected with those?) and pizza of all things? Are they kidding? I can see it if it's an entree and especially if they bring you a second plate with sides. Appetizers and pizza NO. I probably wouldn't go back there. I think they are really trying to rip off people that don't pay attention.
Oh and if top shelf is their default, then the menu should have reflected the 15 dollar price not 12.
re last night:
As others have pointed out, you were not only overcharged but gouged ($15 split on pizza app), and then belittled ("i'll remove it just this once (you cheap whiner)" ... i assume part of "making a big deal of it" was it wasnt super-discreet). So why exactly arent you naming the place?
BTW, $12 seems high for a drink as simple as a cosmo (and I live in a place with high cost of living).
Ever since I have been paying the bill for meals out, and that has been more than 40 years, I have estimated in my head as we go along the total of the bill....drinks, apps, entree, sides, dessert, coffee, sales tax, etc. I am usually with a couple of dollars. Taught my son to do the same thing when he started to date.i
I suggest deducting the extra charges from the tip. Let the server work it out with management.
I always check, and ask if I don't understand something. Most of the time, mistakes are just that: the wrong bill delivered to the table, charged for a full serving when a half one was ordered, etc. However, some of the things you mention sound like downright fraud: posting one price and charging another is illegal in some places, as is adding charges willy-nilly. I'd complain, not just to the manager but to the local business or licensing bureaus.
I once complained about an incorrect bill that was lower than it should have been ("Miss, are you sure this is right?") only to have the server come back with an even lower total. At that point I gave up.
A few of many reasons why it's always a good idea to look at the itemized tab. I'd say we find errors on 1 out of 10 of of our tabs. Which is to say it happens all the time, by mistake or not. Occasionally errors are in favor of the establishment, which, unless the service is inexcusably terrible, one of us points out all the same.
It's the same with hotel bills. I can't tell you how many times I've had mini bar or movie charges added by "mistake".
You are not crazy or imagining things. We are seniors, well dressed (designer bag, jewelry, etc.) and pick up the check for our friends with an 'anything you want' type attitude on special occasions. This past Christmas eve the bill was intentionally 'padded' with $250 of white wine (by the glass as not to stick out on the bill). This was a well known Italian bistro in Land 'O Lakes Florida. It took us six weeks of emails, calls and haggling with a rude and defensive owner/chef to get our refund. Turns out that thieves don't like being caught red handed.
re: hungryinhudson
Holy crap, that's worth a call to the police/DA!


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