Transportation

Willie Dumel, Suspect in Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Family on I-95, to Be Arrested and Charged

The Florida Highway Patrol says it will arrest and charge the suspect in the horrific April 3 wrong-way head-on collision on I-95 that killed Dennis Ortiz, 31, of California, and Albertson Anthony Almase, 31, Kristina Almase, 26, and Lily Azarcon, 26, of the Philippines. See also: -Four Dead in Hor ... More >>

TSA Has Been Ordered to Listen to Your Complaints

It's bad enough that TSA workers have to look at your flabby fat ass through their full-body scanners, but now they're going to have to take a public scolding too. According to a 90-day court order by the U.S. Court of Appeals of D.C., the Transportation Security Administration will now have to rea ... More >>

Electronic Streetcar Coming to Broward County

Streetcars conjure up visions of San Francisco, New Orleans, Uncle Ben's Rice, and that Marlon Brando movie where he pleads for his wife to return to him after he beats her. But now, it will also conjure up downtown Fort Lauderdale and, also, the future, because the Broward County Commission has ... More >>

Nemo: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Announces Cancellations

If you haven't heard yet, there's a massive blizzard storm weather event snow thing that's about to engulf the northeastern part of the U.S. The Weather Channel has nicknamed the menacing storm Nemo, for some reason. In any event, thanks to Nemo, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport ha ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy: What's Closed, Canceled, Re-Scheduled and Operating in Broward-Palm Beach

That Hurricane Sandy is quite a nuisance.Even though the storm is hitting Cuba and the Bahamas directly, she's still sending her winds and rain all over our faces. And, as it usually goes with these kinds of storms, rumors of cancellations, closings, and re-schedules run rampant.So far, we've s ... More >>

TSA at MIA and FLL: 35 Guns, a Chainsaw, and a Cannonball Confiscated

Dolphins Jet Hits Another Plane on Dallas Airport Tarmac

This friggin' team. In what is possibly the greatest metaphor ever produced by the fates, the Miami Dolphins charter plane apparently clipped another parked plane as it was backing out during takeoff. The incident happened at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport last night as the team prepared ... More >>

Tropical Storm Isaac Getting Closer To South Florida (Updated)

Update [5:30 p.m.]: Broward County has two shelters open for those living in low-lying areas and mobile homes.Update [2:50 p.m.]: Broward County schools will be closed on MondayUpdate [1:30 p.m.]: Miami-Dade schools will be closed on Monday. Palm Beach County schools remain openIsaac ain't ... More >>

Two Separate Suspicious Powders Found In Palm Beach International Airport

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue officials were called to Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday after two separate suspicious white powder incidents. The first powder was discovered on a baggage carousel after some luggage was opened and the mysterious stuff spilled out. The other was found on a ... More >>

Streetcar a Terrible Idea, Expert Says

Fort Lauderdale Streetcar a Terrible Idea, Cato Institute Says

Last month, the Department of Transportation announced that it will fork over an $18 million TIGER grant for the first phase of Fort Lauderdale's proposed Wave Streetcar. The plan, which city officials have been molding since 2004, features a 10-station, 2.7-mile trolley-like system intended to shut ... More >>

BSO Holding Safety, Credentials Checkpoint in Deerfield Beach on Thursday

Just a heads-up, motorists: This Thursday, police will be on the 1300 block of South Dixie Highway in Deerfield Beach, checking cars for "defective safety equipment" and checking motorists for valid license, registration, and insurance paperwork.BSO officers will be conducting the checkpoint between ... More >>

Bride Says Spirit Airlines Ruined Her Wedding

Rachael Barach and her fiancé spent months planning their dream wedding: a small ceremony on the remote Caribbean Island of Jost Van Dyke. Pulling it off would require some effort: flying from Fort Lauderdale to St. Thomas, then taking a ferry over to Jost Van Dyke; hiring a wedding photographer, a ... 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 >>

More Than a Dozen Killed in South Florida Car Accidents

​If you saw the Miami Herald story this morning about the ten South Floridians killed in car crashes between Saturday night and Sunday night... it gets worse.In addition to the six deaths in Miami-Dade and four in Broward, there were three people killed in Palm Beach County over the weekend as wel ... More >>

Gailen David, American Airlines Flight Attendant Behind "Dear Sky Steward," Finally Fired

​Gailen David, a snarky, Miami-based American Airlines flight attendant behind several videos making fun of the company, has been fired, according to a post on his Facebook.David's website, DearSkySteward.com, is a mix of travel "jetiquette" (airplane elbow etiquette, anyone?) and American Airline ... More >>

TSA Body Scanners at Fort Lauderdale Airport Targeted by Broward Commission

TSAImages from the "backscatter" machine.​The Broward Commission may request that the Transportation Security Administration go back to the old-school gropings pat-downs of passengers at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and ditch the use of body scanners.The item -- which was de ... 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 >>

Rick Scott Now Doing Damage Control for American Airlines After Bankruptcy Filing

movies.ign.comCaptain Mack of Nashawn Wade Airlines.​When you're the self-proclaimed "jobs governor," it's a little awkward when a major employer in your state files for bankruptcy.Recently, Gov. Rick Scott has either touted "new" jobs coming to the state or blamed jobs losses on other people, typ ... More >>

Markell Hollis, Boynton Beach Burglary/Car Chase Suspect, Turns Himself In

Florida Department of CorrectionsMarkell Hollis is now in jail.​The Boynton Beach Police Department says 22-year-old Markell Hollis -- who escaped police after an alleged burglary and car chase on Tuesday -- turned himself in at the Palm Beach County Jail last night.Hollis, who police said "should ... More >>

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 >>

New Yorker Accused of Slapping a Flight Attendant at Palm Beach International Airport

examiner.comBryan Garnett allegedly did not have this coupon handy.​There's something to be said about a man slapping another man, but when the recipient of that slap is a JetBlue flight attendant -- that's going to be a legal problem.Police say 48-year-old Bryan Garnett, from Utica, New York, was ... More >>

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 >>

Trak Marks

[UPDATED] Will John Goodman Play Polo This Season? Stay Tuned.

PBSOGoodman's team is missing from the club's website.​UPDATE: New Times was kicked out of a press conference at the International Polo Club today. More details after the jump. Will criminal charges accusing him of causing a fatal, drunken car accident keep Wellington polo mogul John Goodman off t ... More >>

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 >>

Five Reasons Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You

flickr.com​When America's newest folk hero, Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater, quit his job in one of the great workplace exit scenes in modern history, people had mixed feelings. Some smiled, fantasizing about how they might one day make a similar over-the-top departure. Others wondered wha ... More >>

Polo Mogul John Goodman, in Happier Times

This week's New Times feature story is an in-depth look at John Goodman, the multimillionaire polo mogul accused of causing the fatal car accident that killed 23-year-old Wellington native Scott Wilson.

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... 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 >>

Stop Charlie

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

Ride 'Em, Cowboy

Hell for Leather on Flight 48

Butts in Seats

DeGroot On The Big Pump Thump

Bro 18F

We Are Airborne Family

Next Stop, Nowhere

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

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

Circular Logic

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

Dr. Strange Train

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

Best Place to Spot an Alligator

Big Cypress Seminole Indian Rest Stop

WorldWide Negligence

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

Crash Landing

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

Critic's Pick

Burning Airlines

Admitting Terror

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

Red Alert

Terrorism on the East Coast: It was predicted

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.

Circular Logic

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

Planespotting