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Recently the City of Miami along with the Downtown Development Authority has begun bicycle initiaves promoting citywide bike parking and bike lanes that have made bicycling much more popular for residents Bike lanes and bike sharrows are currently planned for the majority of Downtown streets to be painted by the end of 2010 the Venetian Causeway is a popular bicycle commuter route that connects South Beach to Downtown the Rickenbacker Causeway is very popular on weekends for recreational bicyclists and often bicycles can outnumber cars on the causeway. As with all vernacular regions South Florida has no official boundaries or status and is defined differently by different sources at different times a 2007 study of Florida's regions by Ary Lamme and Raymond K Oldakowski found that Floridians surveyed identified "South Florida" as comprising the southernmost sections of peninsular Florida That area includes the Miami metropolitan area (generally defined as Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties) the Florida Keys included in Monroe county and the interior region known as the Glades Additionally Southwest Florida representing the state's southern Gulf Coast has emerged as a directional vernacular region Some respondents from as far northwest as the southern Tampa Bay area identified their region as being in South Florida rather than Southwest or Central Florida However the University of South Florida founded in 1956 is located in Tampa at that time prior to the changes quickly brought by the Florida Constitution of 1968 south Florida was much less important politically and the term was used more loosely Tampa is not usually considered part of south Florida!

Miami was host to many dignitaries and notable people throughout the 1980s and '90s Pope John Paul II visited in November 1987 and held an open-air mass for 150,000 people in Tamiami Park Queen Elizabeth II and three United States presidents also visited Miami Among them is Ronald Reagan who has a street named after him in Little Havana Nelson Mandela's 1989 visit to the city was marked by ethnic tensions Mandela had praised Cuban leader Fidel Castro for his anti-apartheid support on ABC News' Nightline Because of this the city withdrew its official greeting and no high-ranking official welcomed him This led to a boycott by the local African American community of all Miami tourist and convention facilities until Mandela received an official greeting However all efforts to resolve it failed for months resulting in an estimated loss of over US$10 million. Beginning in 1962 Dade County schools began to receive their first influx of Hispanic students mainly from Cuba This was significant in shaping the school system into what it is today; Other parks in the Downtown area include: Political risk, Miami Silver Service Lamme and Oldakowski's survey also found some cultural indicators distinguishing South Florida South Florida is the only region of the state where ethnic foods are as popular as general American cuisine Additionally while there was little geographical variation for most styles of music there was regional variation for both country and Latin music Country was significantly less popular in South Florida than in North or Central Florida while Latin was more popular than in the other regions. . . 1972 27.8% 718,117 71.9% 1,857,759 The Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball began play in the 1993 season They won the World Series in both seasons they qualified for the postseason doing so in 1997 and 2003. Est 2018 92,235 38.1% Tourism and conventions The Graham Center FIU's student union Over 3.5 million people walk through the Graham Center every year making it the heart of student life at FIU. Concourse G is the only one of the original 1959 concourses that has largely remained in its original state save for the modifications the rest of the airport received in the mid-1960s and an extension in the early 1970s It is the only concourse at the airport incapable of handling international arrivals the airport authority plans to maintain the concourse until 2025.