Passenger Transportation

Cabdrivers of Broward Unite; Behind the Fort Lauderdale Airport Protests

When Murat Jean-Charles motored into the Yellow Cab holding yard on a Wednesday morning last month, the cabbie didn't know his fellow drivers were about to uncork some civil disobedience. But the all-points call was already out among the fleet: Assemble at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International ... More >>

Bahamas Express Ferry: Adding a Miami - Bimini Route

When it launched in 2011, we told you about the Bahamas Express fast ferry service out of Fort Lauderdale, serving Grand Bahama Island. Last year, we gave the company the award for Best Weekend Getaway, since the trip is quick and kids up to age six travel free. Though other fast-ferry services ... More >>

Woman Alleges Sexual Abuse By Royal Caribbean Cruise Employee Caught On Surveillance Footage

It's been a rough year for the cruise ship industry. From a showboating captain who jumped ship after crashing off the coast of Italy to passengers falling down steps and dying to outbreaks of norovirus and other diarrhea-inducing ailments, the industry has seen its fair share of woe.Now, a woman is ... More >>

FEC Train Operator Plans New Privatized Rail Service Between South Florida and Orlando

​It is, of course, essential Rick Scott lore that our budget-cutting governor nixed a federally funded high-speed rail project because it used too much taxpayer money. As little sense as that move made, the governor has always been clear that he favors private enterprise over the government provid ... More >>

Passenger Rail Coming to Downtown Fort Lauderdale and Its Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Bridge

Eric Barton​As long as we're talking ferries and bikes, we may as well point your attention to another exciting mode of alternative transportation that's making its way to South Florida's urban centers.That's right -- the people who dream up such things say that passenger rail is on its way. That ... More >>

New Fast-Ferry Service to Bahamas Will Cost About $100 for a Day Trip; Starts December 9

Baleària​A Barcelona-based company that offers fast-ferry service to the Balearic Islands has set up shop in Port Everglades and will soon offer fast-ferry service to the Bahamas in two and a half hours, as we reported Monday.The ferry Pinar del Rio will travel at 32 knots and carry up to 463 peo ... More >>

Express Ferry Offering High-Speed Boat Trips to Bahamas From Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades

Hate flying? Lost your yacht in the recession? But sure as hell would love a decent rum runner and a handmade straw hat?If so, you are so in luck, because a new boat called the Bahamas Express Ferry is about to start high-speed service from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas. A massiv ... More >>

Toys For Tots Food Truck Fundraiser in Miramar

Donate a toy, get a discount off dinner at the Toys For Tots food truck roundup​Christmas is already upon us. To us at Clean Plate Charlie, that means drinking lots of eggnog, wearing ugly reindeer sweaters, and making frequent stress-filled trips to the mall to buy presents.It's also the time of ... More >>

Eat Up: The Top Five Airline Food Fails

​Eating a bad meal on a flight is adding insult to injury. Thanks to the post-9/11 security increases, you've already waited in a security line in your socks, slipped on urine in the restroom, and rushed across four different terminals to make it to an early flight... only to find out it had been ... More >>

Rick Scott "Gets to Work" by Playing "DJ Govvy Gov" (Video)

YouTube"DJ Govvy Gov" and his crew.​Gov. Rick Scott may not think Florida needs more anthropologists, but cruise-ship DJs -- that's a different story.The governor held another one of his borrowed "Let's Get to Work" days this Friday at the Port of Miami, and among his duties, the governor's office ... More >>

JetBlue Sued After Woman Claims She Was Kicked Off Plane Unfairly

hotelscheap.org​Malinda Knowles says she was about to fly out of LaGuardia Airport last year, headed for West Palm Beach, until JetBlue employees allegedly committed what the New York Post is calling a "panty air raid."Knowles, a 27-year-old financial consultant and former model, says she was wear ... More >>

Disney Cruise Crew Member Is Missing at Sea [UPDATE]

via Disney Cruise LinesA crew member on the Disney Wonder is missing.​A crew member on the Disney Wonder went missing Tuesday morning. The ship disembarked from Los Angeles on Sunday and had been on the water for two days when the employee did not show up for work. Cruise officials searched every ... More >>

The Sun Sentinel Gets Raw, Forgets Math

This fruit fly wants a train, and he wants it now.​You know, Sun Sentinel, there's a certain art to these things.I thought it was cute-bordering-on-precious when, a couple of weeks ago, you tried to emulate the cattier elements of the big media by having dueling columnists thrash it out over the m ... More >>

Trak Marks

Electronic Artist-Producer Amtrac Adds Local Flavor to the Dancegiving Music Festival

Ron Klein Wants to Ban French Company From Rail Project for Holocaust Involvement

​If Allen "Higher Security Clearance Than the President" West wasn't formidable enough, Ron Klein has a new enemy in his sights: the French national railway company. And now Klein, like West, is talking about Nazis.Société Nationale des Chemins de fer, or SNCF, is basically France's version of A ... More >>

LeMieux to President: Cut Federal Spending! (Except on Businesses That Paid Me as a Lobbyist)

It's surreal to hear a conservative like LeMieux campaigning for mass transportation, typically a crusade for liberals. But when it comes to the railroad industry, to which LeMieux has deep ties from his halcyon days as a lobbyist, LeMieux turns liberal.As we've mentioned on Juice this month, LeMieu ... More >>

Lauderdale Airport's Newest Carrier Announces Special Service to Customers Who've Never Had Sex

Screen grab: PCMag.com​ Can't get laid? Well, maybe some free WiFi will cheer you up. Google is teaming up with the newest airline to serve Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport so that virgin travelers can have free internet.Oh wait, maybe that's Virgin travelers? Haha. This is just a ... More >>

Spirit Airlines: Your Skank in the Sky

​That's an actual advertisement from Spirit Airlines, the pride of Miramar. Clearly a shot across the bow at Virgin America, which is coming soon to the FLL.

Search for Airline More Spartan Than Spirit Ends in Ireland

Quick, someone block the New York Times website on the computer of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza. The head of the Miramar-based discount carrier will be devastated if he learns that there's another airline that is more ruthless about achieving low fares (a Baldanza obsession) and more willing to ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Post-9/11 Food Conundrum

Flickr user: DOliphantThis is caviar compared to airport food.It was 6 p.m. the night before a long weekend, and so far my getaway trip was going smoothly. I'd made it through the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport security screening line with half an hour to spare before boarding time. ... More >>

Breaking: Taxi Mogul Jesse Gaddis' Airport Empire Taking Hit

Yellow Cab czar Jesse Gaddis has been running the taxi dispatch system at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for decades. But now the dispatch contract is being put out for bid -- and Broward County staff has effectively disqualified Gaddis from the job. In a request for ... More >>

Seiler Wants to Revive Light Rail Plan

jackseiler.comSeilerIt looks like Fort Lauderdale Mayor Elect Jack Seiler is enjoying his honeymoon. Five days after routing three other candidates in the municipal elections, he paid a Sunday morning visit to This Week in South Florida on WPLG Local 10. An unpugnacious and downright avuncular Micha ... More >>

Abrams: Intellect May Be 'Commercially Viable'

It's another year -- and another rambling think piece from Tribune Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams. And he seems to have reached a turning point. Abrams says truth, integrity, and intelligence ... might actually be profitable. "Junk Culture or Junk Food media does s ... More >>

Condo Hell, Lambiet 2.0, and UA-Gate Revisited

Google Explains United Airlines Debacle

A Feast Through Eastern Europe, Part 1

Booze Hound - San Juan and Halo

Last Night: Wisin Y Yandel at the American Airlines Arena

Letters for May 15-21, 2008

Butts in Seats

Mile High Michy’s

Marital Law

Does Stacy Ritter's lobbyist husband swing her vote?

DeGroot On The Big Pump Thump

The Art of Piracy

On the high seas, it may be best to resist the urge to buy a masterpiece.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Next Stop, Nowhere

Just wait till you see what this bad boy can do out on the open track

Living in the Ice Age

Discovering Mastodon's North American metal heroics

Dr. Strange Train

Or: How I learned to start worrying and hate the bullet train

Get a Clue

Wannabe Holmeses, Spades, and Miss Marples turn Las Olas upside down

Riding in Style

Leave the driving to Mike's on the Beach

Letters for January 24, 2002

More bunny debate

Crash Landing

Delta blew it when someone phoned in a bomb threat. Then the airline tried to cover it up.

The Two-Arena Circus

Two greedy billionaires, two publicly funded arenas, two crappy teams, one burning question — why?

Red Alert

Terrorism on the East Coast: It was predicted

Hailing Taxis

A major miscalculation cost Broward County's taxi czar his monopoly

One Man, One Vote

Haitian immigrants like Gerlyn Cadet know in their marrow that a ballot is a precious thing. But this election leaves them feeling robbed.

Undercurrents

The city is worries about the image of the groovy, cosmopolitan beach area.

Assail on the Fun Ship

Carnival doesn't just neglect passengers who claim to be victims of sexual assault. It attempts to shut them up.

The Sheriff's Criminal Association

If Ken Jenne were like most cops, he'd be investigated for being friends with felons who give him money