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Since 2022, David Dech has been the head of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority ,which oversees Tri-Rail. He announced his resignation this week.
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Tri-Rail hasn’t raised rates since 2019, but that could soon change as the service looks to make up for losses in funding from the state.
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A recently released report concluded that the Sunshine State remains the most dangerous state in the nation for bicyclists.
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Florida’s new rules for rail crossings take effect Jan. 1, aimed at reducing the number of drivers and pedestrians killed by trains. But they won’t lead to wholesale change along the deadly Brightline corridor, where 195 people have been killed — the rules are for new projects. Here is a look at the safety solutions experts say could be most effective.
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The City of Miami Trolley is a vital service, transporting seniors with carts, children in school uniforms, and workers transferring to Metrorail or Metrobus. But Liberty City and Overtown, both historically Black neighborhoods, lack Saturday service.
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The private passenger train service changed its schedule in October to add more trains and cars for commuters between its South Florida stations. More riders showed up as average fares fell.
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A lawsuit that threatens the multi-county coastal link transit project is on ice for now, and elected leaders are pushing ahead with Brightline negotiations.
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The private company that promised to be “financially viable on its own” is losing money — and using government subsidies to grow its business. Read the latest installment in the WLRN / Miami Herald series Killer Train.
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Christian ministry organization Ignite the Fire identified the two victims of the Monday morning crash as the group's founder, Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena Wurm, 22.
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A small turboprop plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, minutes after take off from Fort Lauderdale Executive airport.
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The Federal Aviation Administration's order to scale back flights nationwide because of the government shutdown is now in effect. At Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, security lines stretched well past the barricades in Terminal 1, with 18 cancellations and 81 delayed departures by lunchtime Friday according to tracking website FlightAware.
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Brightline train crews confront violent deaths on a regular basis. Their experiences, their suffering, are part of the long debris trail of the nation’s deadliest major passenger rail system. “What’s your body count?” someone asked the conductor on Instagram. “16,” he responded, like he was providing his shirt size.