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| Expanded Tri-Rail, bus-rail links between Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties key to area success |
| Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| Improving tri-county transportation is crucial to South Florida's success, business leaders say, but it's no overnight task.
Ongoing initiatives include expanding Tri-Rail's reach and building a "seamless" bus-rail tri-county transportation system. "We're all connected," said Ralph A. Marrinson, chairman of the South Florida Regional Business Alliance. "We |
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| High-tech push for high-speed rail |
| Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| Supporters of Florida's proposed high-speed-rail system unveiled a multimedia plan Tuesday to persuade President Barack Obama to pay for the $2.5 billion project.ConnectUs, a nonprofit group formed last summer to promote Florida's rail bid, has produced a television spot touting the economic impact that supporters say a rail link between Orlando and Tampa |
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| Palm Beach County gets inland port, despite environmental concerns |
| Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| Environmental warnings failed to stop Palm Beach County port officials Thursday from deciding to put a sprawling, inland industrial distribution center in an agricultural area targeted for Everglades restoration.
The proposed "inland port," now planned on sugar giant Florida Crystal's land in western Palm Beach County, would become a South Florida |
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| Port of Palm Beach's inland port draws criticism from all sides ahead of key vote |
| Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
| Port of Palm Beach efforts to build a warehousing and distribution complex that would serve South Florida's three seaports has come under mounting criticism in recent weeks from a competing port, potential allies and environmentalists.
Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades, which has outgrown the Port of Miami in shipping container volume, called the four |
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| Disney gets on board with fast-train proposal |
| Friday, October 2, 2009 |
| Florida has received a last-minute boost from Walt Disney World in its bid for $2.5 billion of federal money to build a high-speed train linking Orlando and Tampa.
Disney says it will support a stop at the Orange County Convention Center, as well as provide up to 50acres of free land for a station. For years, Disney wanted any train that might be built |
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| Bike, pedestrian group starts petition drive targeting state legislators to support Tri-Rail |
| Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| The group that successfully fought for bike lanes on State Road A1A in Delray Beach plans to hound state legislators into pledging support for additional funding for financially struggling Tri-Rail.
The effort by Safety As Floridians Expect is part of a grassroots campaign to save the commuter rail by also getting elected officials, community leaders, |
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| Tri-Rail faces 'dire straits,' tries again for new rental-car fee |
| Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
| WEST PALM BEACH - Tri-Rail wants state lawmakers this year to approve a new $2 rental-car surcharge to keep the train system from having to cut service at a time of record-breaking ridership.
South Florida's commuter rail service, among the fastest-growing in the nation, now relies on the state to match year-to-year contributions from Palm Beach, |
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| Mass Transit: Streetcar plans won't work with cheap gas |
| Sunday, January 4, 2009 |
| With the inauguration of Barack Obama less than three weeks away, local and state officials are salivating like kids in a candy store. The incoming administration has been hard at work developing an economic stimulus plan that could approach a trillion dollars, and massive spending on public works projects will be a major part of it.
Government officials |
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