transportation

JetBlue is getting hit with a $2 million penalty for chronically late flights. The Transportation Department said Friday that half the money will go to passengers who were delayed on flights along four routes on the East Coast between summer 2022 and late 2023.

The NTSB is already investigating two crashes involving Brightline’s high-speed trains that killed three people early this year at the same crossing in Melbourne along the railroad’s route between Miami and Orlando.

New toll rates on Card Sound Road will be effective on Oct. 1, 2024. The toll adjustment is following the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index.

Voters must decide in the Aug. 20 primary election whether Miami-Dade County needs to expand its existing rapid mass transit system, which includes the Metrorail, passenger rail and Metromover.

County leaders this week declined to bring to voters the prospect of renewing the tax, which funded infrastructure projects. They favored instead investment in transportation — potentially via another surtax.

The airport's partnership with urban air mobility pioneer Volocopter saw its first successful test flight of the emerging technology on property Thursday morning.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg toured South Florida last week, hearing from local officials about trains, planes, ports, roads and tunnels. Around $10 billion of last year's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been earmarked for projects in Florida.

Vermont and Rhode Island have been removed from a list of states with certain types of driver’s licenses deemed invalid in Florida.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has published a list of out-of-state license classes that are invalid in Florida as of July 1.

A Leon County Circuit Court judge has dismissed a case against Governor Ron DeSantis over flights funded by Florida that took migrants to Martha’s Vineyard from Texas last year.

The money is only a fraction of what the county is asking for to improve road safety.

The project is expected to start next year and is part of a larger plan to expand the Turnpike in parts of South Florida.