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  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Rick Scott Finds a Train He Likes: $1.2 Billion SunRail

    blogomatic3000.com​He didn't like the idea of an almost-free high-speed train, and he vetoed plans to restore a Holocaust rail car, but Gov. Rick Scott finally found a train he likes -- the SunRail, with a price tag of $1.2 billion, including a cost of more than a half-billion dollars to the state ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Holocaust Rail Car Restoration is Another Train Project that Rick Scott Won't Fund

    A rail car used in the Holocaust​The whole country knows that Governor Rick Scott turned down $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money for a high-speed train between Tampa and Orlando (and many are blaming that move for his current dismal 29 percent approval rating). But another train project, this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    High-Speed Rail Money Rick Scott Rejected Goes to Other States

    Our friends in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and California are now benefiting from the questionable fiscal decisions of Florida's Tea Party governor. Thanks, Governor, for sending money to our friends up north.​They're receiving a large portion of the $2.4 billion in federal funds for a high-speed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Rick Scott Takes Credit For Solving Budget Crisis By Rejecting High-Speed Rail

    Thanks, Governor, for saving us all from helpful public transport.​Remember that high-speed rail project that Governor Rick Scott rejected? The bullet train between Tampa and Orlando would've been the first of its kind in the country, made possible by $2.4 million in federal funds.But Scott return ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2011

    Tea Party? Try Tea Puppets

    I wonder if the nonsense-spewing Tea Partiers are really paying attention -- because if they are they'll know they're just puppets for war profiteers and the oil industry, which are one and the same. ​Case in point: A federal audit just found that former Florida Republican Party fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2011

    Florida's Loss: Rick Scott's High-Speed Rail Shoot-Down

    Art Seitz Wild Art: Congressman Allen West joins a motley collection of local politicians (including fellow Republican Chip LaMarca, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, Charlotte Rodstrom, and Romney Rogers) in Fort Lauderdale for yesterday's St. Patrick's Day festivities. (Photo by Art  ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2011

    Trak Marks

    Art Seitz Wild Art: Congressman Allen West joins a motley collection of local politicians (including fellow Republican Chip LaMarca, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, Charlotte Rodstrom, and Romney Rogers) in Fort Lauderdale for yesterday's St. Patrick's Day festivities. (Photo by Art  ... More >>

  • Music

    November 25, 2010

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

    Art Seitz Wild Art: Congressman Allen West joins a motley collection of local politicians (including fellow Republican Chip LaMarca, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler, Charlotte Rodstrom, and Romney Rogers) in Fort Lauderdale for yesterday's St. Patrick's Day festivities. (Photo by Art  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    French Railway Launches Sensitive Website to Address Its Nazi Past

    Before and after.​The state-owned French railway company that hopes to supply Florida with high-speed trains launched a publicity campaign recently to help combat criticisms of its Nazi past. The campaign includes a web page titled "Heritage" that claims to detail the Societe Nationale des Chamins ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Dining

    January 28, 2010

    India House's Menu Is a Train Ticket Through India

    ​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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2009

    And Then God Said, “Let There Be Light Displays.”

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    November 8, 2007

    Green Eggs and Dolphin Ham

    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 >>

  • Film

    May 27, 2004

    City Limits

    If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    Next Stop, Nowhere

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

  • Calendar

    July 18, 2002

    Clear the Tracks!

    I think you can make it to the National Train Show

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Dr. Strange Train

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

  • Sports and Recreation

    May 16, 2002

    Best Trainspotting

    West of the Pompano State Farmer's Market

  • Dining

    February 7, 2002

    Conch Train

    Don't let the name fool you -- Key West Crossing serves up homemade ice cream along with the tchotchkes

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Train in Vain

    Millionaire Charles Croffard Dockery dreams of creating a high-speed bullet train in Florida. Sound crazy? Wait until you hear the details.

  • News

    January 11, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters for January 11, 2001

  • Best of BPB

    March 11, 1999

    Best Architecture

    Stair #1

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