A Pop-up Fake Train Station in Miami to Show the Benefits of Public Transit
- Adele Peters wrote in Transportation, Miami and Cities

Wish your city had better public transit? Here’s one way to help get your neighbors on board as fellow advocates: build a temporary, fake train station to give a real-life demonstration of what a bigger system might look like. Last week in Miami, a group of students from Florida Atlantic ran the Purple Line project, a pop-up “train station” near unused tracks.

The pretend train station included extra features of urban life that tend to grow up around transit centers, like a farmers market, musicians, and cafes. It also included a “transit confession booth” where residents could share rants about the current state of public transportation in Miami. 

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The 2 million tires dumped into the ocean off the coast of South Florida were intended to create an artificial reef and a habitat for fish. Instead, they became an ecological disaster. Now 80 of them comprise an art exhibit with a message about the perils of trying to dominate nature. 

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We’ve got a crush on a poetry bomber:

Agustina Woodgate is an Argentine artist living in Miami whose work includes everything from doormats to produce-sticker collages to giant rugs made of stuffed-animal “hides.” When she’s not doing all that, Woodgate also finds the time to go “poetry bombing” around Miami thrift stores. Using her deft hands and a needle and thread, Woodgate sews short poems into pieces of clothing with the goal of anonymously brightening some shopper’s day. “So that poems can be in every day life,” she says.

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