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Railroad coming to U.S. 27? A new vision emerges
A scenic highway on the edge of the Everglades, U.S. 27 seems far away from the hustle and bustle of interstate commerce. It has no strip malls, few stoplights and gas stations. Vast open land — sugar cane fields, farms, sawgrass — surrounds...
Tags: Orlando, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Pembroke Pines, Railway Transportation, Highway Transportation
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Railroad trespassers in Palm Beach County get an expensive message
Thursday was no day to mess around at railroad crossings in Boynton Beach. Motorists who stopped their cars on the railroad tracks got hit with a $166 ticket. Those who decided to stroll across the tracks where there were no crosswalks were headed to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Services and Shopping, Railway Transportation, Highway Transportation
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People on the move
Education Whitney Stewart was named as an instructor of The Regional Physiotherapy Centre's newly established School of Massage Therapy in West Palm Beach. Stewart is a physical therapist assistant and a licensed massage therapist. She joined the Centre...Tags: Nova Southeastern University, Health Treatments, Nature Conservancy, hhgregg, Broward College
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Driver killed when train hits van on tracks in Boynton
— Allen J. Vachon, 57, of Hypoluxo, was killed late Saturday when a southbound Florida East Coast Railway train struck his van on the tracks at Miner Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Vachon's vehicle became disabled on the track,...
Tags: Florida Highway Patrol, Boynton Beach
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It's full steam ahead on plans for new train service
A new, privately financed passenger rail service between Miami and Orlando is still on track, although the start up may be delayed about a year until the end of 2015. The Federal Railroad Administration in January determined that adding trains on the...Tags: Orlando, Coral Gables, Broward County, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Railway Transportation
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Hallandale Beach Boulevard narrowed to provide extra 'green time'
Q: Can you please tell us why eastbound Hallandale Beach Boulevard goes down to two lanes at Southwest Second Avenue and then opens up no more than 100 feet later to three lanes right before Southeast Third Avenue? This does not make any sense, and it...Tags: Gulfstream Park, Palm Beach County, Hallandale Beach, Traffic, Pompano Beach
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Kingsley Guy: South Florida economic future looks good
As Mark Twain noted, history doesn't repeat itself, but "sometimes it rhymes," and South Florida may be in for one of those rhyming moments as it emerges from the economic doldrums of the past half decade. Turn the clock back a hundred years: Henry...Tags: Employment, Career and Workplace, Labor Day, Labor Markets, Railway Transportation
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Will Fort Lauderdale's Wave streetcar be a wipeout?
As a New Yorker who grew up riding subways, I'm all for mass transit. But the proposed Wave electric streetcar in downtown Fort Lauderdale sounds more like a massive boondoggle: A light rail loop that will go virtually nowhere and carry almost nobody,...
Tags: Tampa, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Public Transportation, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale
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Mayo: Will The Wave streetcar line be a wipeout?
Sun Sentinel ColumnistHey, good news. The price of a looming boondogle seems to have gone down. The Wave, a downtown Fort Lauderdale electric streetcar/light rail loop, was pegged to cost $150 million when I wrote a column lampooning it in 2008. Now, almost five years later,...Tags: Philosophy, Public Transportation, Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Religion and Belief
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Mix history, art in Palm Beach at the Flagler Museum
If ever a room was aptly named, it's the Grand Hall of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach. The 5,000 square-foot reception hall is adorned with almost every conceivable trapping of Gilded Age splendor: A bust of Caesar Augustus atop a...
Tags: Tom Cruise, Museums, Norton Museum of Art, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Arts
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Move Over Law confuses drivers
Q: I need a clarification of Florida's Move Over Law. One can interpret the law that you have to reduce your speed 20 mph under the speed limit or move over a lane only when police or emergency workers are involved rendering assistance. Does this also...Tags: Florida Highway Patrol, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Boynton Beach, Florida Department of Transportation
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Long waits the norm at Commercial and Dixie
Q: What is going on with the left turn arrows from Commercial Boulevard to southbound Dixie Highway? Is it necessary to sit through two cycles of the signal to get a green arrow? Pauline Duimstra, Oakland Park A: The problem is too much traffic in all...Tags: Transportation, Road Transportation, Travel, Traffic, Pompano Beach
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Feb 9, 2013
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