Subject: Transportation

• Imus Kills New Jersey Governor!

  April 13, 2007

• DeGroot On The Big Pump Thump

  May 31, 2007

• Negligent Notification in the Pines

  September 4, 2007

• Coverage A Train Wreck

  June 9, 2008

• Mile High Michy’s

  August 28, 2007

• The Wrongway Expansion At FLL

  August 13, 2008

• Booze Hound - San Juan and Halo

  August 29, 2008

• Planespotting

  August 6, 1998

• Best Place To Breathe Exhaust And Hear Engines Roar

  March 11, 1999

• Best Government Idea

  May 17, 2001

• Best Place to Spot an Alligator

  May 16, 2002

• Died in a Plane Crash Performs at Churchill's This Sunday

  I am a composer of modern music.The video above is my new group, Died in a Plane Crash. Let me explain: One of my current roommates is a sports fanatic. So, while I enjoy my morning coffee, he is watching ESPN Sports Center in the living room area. When I come home at night, he is watching a basketball, football, or baseball game (depending on the season). He spends entire weekends in front of the TV set watching ESPN. At first, I paid no attention to it; since I have never cared at all about s

  January 23, 2009

• Colombian Immigrant's Turning Point: Ditching South Florida

  Today's local section of The New York Times tells the story of Blanca Bohorquez, who emigrated from Bogota with friends and family two years ago, settling in Coral Springs, where she hoped to learn English. In Coral Springs, the family found a house to share, Ms. Bohorquez a job at a jewelry factory. But in two years' time, she had picked up only a minimal amount of the new language. We have jewelry factories here? Anyway, the immigrant's life in South Florida was apparently so intolerable Bohor

  January 27, 2009

• Best FM Radio Personality

  May 12, 2005

• Hurry to Get in on Tobacco Suit, Flight Attendant Aprons Ruin Beer Surprise, James Taylor to Dress Up

  A civil suit that goes to trial in Fort Lauderdale today is expected to be the first of a wave of lawsuits against Big Tobacco in Florida courts. The widow of Stuart Hess, a locksmith from Cooper City, sued Phillip Morris after his death in 1997, claiming the cigarettes he bought were defective. About 8,000 other plaintiffs are lined up to sue Big Tobacco, and I'm one of them. Well, technically its my soon-to-be widow.Now sure, I'm not dead yet, but I'm smoking the crap out of my daily

  January 29, 2009

• Green Eggs and Dolphin Ham

  November 8, 2007

• Butts in Seats

  February 28, 2008

• Ride 'Em, Cowboy

  Hell for Leather on Flight 48

  May 8, 2008

• Buy Your Mom or Abuela a Ticket to See Julio Iglesias This Saturday at AAA

  There are few hispanophone ladies and gents of a certain age who have not been reduced, at some point, to misty eyes by the ballad stylings of the suave Spaniard Julio Iglesias. While Iglesia's true crossover peak came mainly in the 1980s, he has hardly receded from the international spotlight, cranking out at least one album a year since the turn of the millennium. Late 2006, especially, marked something of an Iglesias revival, heavily promoting his Romantic Classics best-of collection on Engli

  February 9, 2009

• Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Radio Personality

  Dirty jokes, canned fart sounds, rambling jibber-jabber -  some radio DJs rise above these standard industry tricks; others turn them into an art form. Which radio host has a crazy accent, an uncanny ability to rile up guests, or a knack for making you laugh on the Monday morning commute? Tell us who rules the airwaves.

  February 6, 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 Michael Putney asked Seiler about reviving the city's West Side, the police department, City Manager George Gretsas, and a mass transit system between downtown and the beach. (No video, but don't worry! I

  February 16, 2009

• Stop Charlie

  Sell one of our most traveled freeways to some foreigners? Might as well just give 'em a Budweiser.

  July 31, 2008

• Robo-Invasion!

  Robby and B-9 Take Boca

  October 12, 2006

• Bro 18F

  We Are Airborne Family

  August 10, 2006

• Engaging Music

  The Subways are all family, no feuding.

  July 6, 2006

• Critic's Pick

  Burning Airlines

  November 8, 2001

• Err America

  October 27, 2005

• See-Through Virtuosity

  Othoniel's palatial MoCA installation is more clever than inspired

  June 17, 2004

• Next Stop, Nowhere

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

  April 15, 2004

• Shipped Off

  When you're down and out in West Palm, a free ticket to New York can mean just being homeless in another city

  October 23, 2003

• Security Collars

  Be careful when you pack your carryon bag. You might end up in the calaboose.

  June 27, 2002

• Circular Logic

  The people watching the airlines should have and could have taken action... but didn't

  June 13, 2002

• Dr. Strange Train

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

  May 30, 2002

• WorldWide Negligence

  An airport security company received a surprise visit from the FBI. Here's why.

  January 24, 2002

• Crash Landing

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

  December 27, 2001

• Red Alert

  Terrorism on the East Coast: It was predicted

  September 20, 2001

• Admitting Terror

  The immigration service's own describe how America failed to protect its borders from the September 11 terrorists

  October 18, 2001

• A Flight of Fancy

  Broward commissioners are spending big bucks on an unlikely airport-growth scheme

  June 28, 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.

  January 25, 2001

• A Plane Case of Quid Pro Quo

  Commissioner Lori Parrish opposed a rent increase for small airlines. A major supporter is a lobbyist for the airlines. You figure it out.

  October 21, 1999

• Circular Logic

  The "roundabouts" planned for A1A along Fort Lauderdale beach may end up looking pretty, but traffic could get ugly

  September 30, 1999

• Spirit Airlines: Run by Red Sox Fans?

  Flickr user: maestraThe Miramar-based airline notorious for an ad that shows a post-coital cuddling session between a young man and a cougarish lady that advertises an innuendo-thick "three way" deal to its customers and treats its flight attendants as billboard space has -- if you can believe this -- stumbled into another crop of bad publicity.A couple of South Florida tweens spent their bar mitzvah loot on tickets to opening day at the new Yankees Stadium and say that after a series of delays,

  April 20, 2009

• Research on a Parrothead

  May 14, 2009

• An Awful Father's Day

  Our condolences to the Forkey family of Boca Raton, which was planning to have a belated Father's Day celebration this week. Kenneth Forkey was the passenger in a cab that crashed into an idling semitruck on the way to La Guardia International Airport. Forkey, 25, who lived in Manhattan and was catching a flight to Fort Lauderdale to see his father, was killed in the accident.

  June 25, 2009

• They Really Go With Everything

  July 9, 2009

• New Airline in Delray Has First Crash; No Pets Were Injured

  Flickr User: the gentleman's gameNot an actual Pet Airways flight, but an approximation of what the airline's popularity has done to its server.Oh, the humanity! Or, technically, the lack of humanity -- because, technically, the passengers were pets and... oh... actually, the "crash" that caught my eye in this article is referring to the server for booking flights on Delray Beach-based Pet Airways. Which is the only good kind of crash in that industry, because even in an economic torpor, America

  July 17, 2009

• Bike Fatality on A1A in Fort Lauderdale

  Photo: Google MapsThe Fort Lauderdale intersection that was the site of a traffic fatality early this morning​A 59-year-old man was struck and killed by a car just after midnight today on A1A in Fort Lauderdale, according to a police department news release.Daniel Colotte was riding a bicycle north at the 1100 block of A1A near the Bahia Cabana and Yankee Clipper hotel at around 12:17. The release:Investigators have learned that a 1999 White Mercedes Benz, operated by Melinda O'Donnell, was dr

  September 1, 2009

• 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 sample of the fun we can all have, now that Virgin America airlines willl be flying into FLL, beginning next month.Seriously, though, how long till our local low-fare / low-brow carrier, Spirit Air,

  October 22, 2009

• Fort Lauderdale Flight Did NOT Crash in Puerto Rico... Or Anywhere for That Matter

  BNONews.orgThe explosion in question.​This article on a breaking news website claimed that Spirit Airlines Flight 837 originating in Fort Lauderdale crashed near San Juan, Puerto Rico, and that it was the source of an explosion that firefighters are still putting out.I just got off the phone with Greg Meyer, a spokesman for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and he told me, "I have no knowledge of any Spirit Airlines incident." My call was the first he had heard of it."I would ha

  October 23, 2009

• Name of Plane Crash Victim Released

  Edmundo Velasquez is the name of the 49-year-old man whose plane crashed Sunday in the Everglades of West Broward. A resident of Oviedo, Velasquez's plane was found partially submerged, roughly 200 feet north of I-75. Here's the news release from Broward Sheriff's Office.And here's a link to the 911 call by witnesses of a low-flying plane.

  November 12, 2009