hardly anyone here lacks a vehicle. It's like everyone who arrives first thing you do, thanks to the credit (or help from someone or some "magic ratio"), is to get a car or SUV. It is understandable in a city where it is impossible to get from one place to another walking , unless one is a relative of Flash and can run er at 60 miles per hour on a freeway. Miami is not designed for walking, it has the typical structure of cities in Latin America we know, here the roads are cut often make incredible curves, or end in the rise of a highway. This is compounded by the weather factor that makes the sun will cook, or that of a second to wake up the other huge tropical storm. Not to mention when it starts getting dark, is so assumed that no one walks, there is no light in the streets, anywhere, more attractive it is, is totally dark, except for the lights of vehicles out there that may happen.
But there is a world that here is a kind of off class international dimension to many: The pub lic transport. This bus ride (take the bondi " to Argentines, or" riding the bus "for Cubans), or travel by train, is not common at all for most people, co mo if it is in large Latin American cities.
recently in El Nuevo Herald, the English language newspaper imp ortant in the area, read a report about the state of public transport in Miami . As always in this kind of article, spoke of that had to solve some antide c problems, and among these complaints referred to the possibility that some units have their air conditioning failures, saying something like, "no to wait until someone passes out. " Even American in your country, you read correctly, here all the buses and trains have air conditioning running. But it seems that when Hispanics came here, we forget a poc or where we come from, do not remember the deplorable (but seriously deplorable) state of the buses in our countries. Here, in addition to air-conditioned, clean, pensioners and home-less travel for free (well, just to the downtown area that would be something like the center, a small train that is called the Metro Mover, which is free for everyone), they respect their schedules, are comfortable, almost never have to go up, are perfectly equipped for the disabled you can load your bike on the front, etc. Ie working as expected. But despite that, Latinos, in majority, are seeing a face on buses and trains, as I said a Venezuelan a few days after I stepped on this country, surprised when I told him I was moving Bus and train: "You're right, here we do not know to be poor ...." It is as if many people forget you come from and think that here is someone else because you can buy a nicer cell.
is also true that this transport system has shortcomings s us, but go elsewhere: not many tours do not happen often and therefore should be studied very well the schedule of each bus for not spending an hour and a half waiting for something that is decided q ue not happen at that time (because I tell you, but at noon with the blazing sun of this city, not to put booths at every stop, taking into account the weather, is a serious fault). Tam also happens that you can not get from any point to any other way only with a bus, but you have to do "transfer" from one to another, or it becomes impossible in some cases. But it is a kind of vicious circle, that is not going to have more buses more frequently and spend existing, if people refuse to ride them.
Finally, but not e s as easy or as fast, you can live without a car in this city ... even to go to the beach from a point of Kendall, to give a example, it takes more than an hour and have to take the train and the bus, taking half hour or so. But let's face it, that country not to do that time travel by public transport?. Perhaps millions of people do not travel daily to their jobs It may take more time? ... Anyway, I hope to drive a car soon, and join in the chaotic and vast amount of vehicles in this city, but that is for another article. 
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