To anyone living in Palm Beach County, it has become clear that rapid growth means more traffic and fewer ways to get around. Welcome to the countywide transportation master plan.

Sean Duffy, the nation’s top transportation official, committed this week to making the Brightline corridor safer, saying there have been “way too many deaths.” His remarks came the day after the Miami Herald and WLRN published a joint investigation revealing that Brightline trains have killed 182 people since beginning test runs in 2017.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles will issue temporary handicap placards to expectant mothers, which are valid for up to one year.

For nearly twenty years, most air travelers in the U.S. have been required to remove their shoes when going through security. That requirement has ended.

High occupancy vehicle lanes were meant to encourage carpooling. Low emission vehicles also were allowed to use the lanes, sometimes called express lanes, for free. A new law that went to effect on Tuesday eliminates HOV lanes throughout Florida.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport will temporarily close two runways for maintenance overnight, with the North Runway closed starting today through Wednesday, and the South Runway closed from Wednesday through Saturday.

West Palm Beach officials have long argued against the extension — alongside the Ibis Golf and Country Club — on environmental grounds, fearing the four-lane roadway would harm the neighboring Grassy Waters Preserve, a 23-square-mile preserve that holds city drinking water before it is treated.

Starting July 21, 2025, the county will roll out major bus system updates following a unanimous vote by the Board of County Commissioners last week.

The meeting comes a few weeks after Tri-Rail's executive director said the counties would need to pay $10 million each per year in order to keep the service going. In the future, that number will jump to an additional $30 million per year.

The survey of voters and frequent transit riders shows 92% believe traffic is a "daily challenge" and has I-95 as the worst roadway in the area. It offers more insight into the 78% pro-transit results of a straw ballot conducted in August 2024 by Miami-Dade County.