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Rail Transportation

  • Calendar

    July 19, 2007

    We Hear the Train A-Coming

    All aboard Gold Coast’s anniversary ride

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Old School Freight Train and Hot Tuna playing Revolution on August 29

    The band with the most disgusting name in all of music, Hot Tuna, is coming to stink up Revolution with Old School Freight Train on August 29. Now before you even have to ask, Hot Tuna is not disgusting because of the not so subtle innuendo it may conjure. It's disgusting because just the thought of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 14, 2008

    Giving Voice

    Cinema for grownups at the Jewish Film Festival.

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Obama Announces High Speed Rail Plan, Including a Line in Florida

    via The White HouseCertain wingnuts think President Obama was born in Africa? Have they ever thought he might actually be European? First he tries and brings small bits of "socialism" that have been hall mark of many healthy, European democracies for decade, then he tries to shove soccer down our th ... More >>

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    The Last Amtrak

    47 arguments for nationalizing railroad travel

  • News

    October 3, 1996

    News of the Weird

    47 arguments for nationalizing railroad travel

  • News

    July 4, 1996

    They've Been Workin' on the Railroad

    For a hundred years the FEC Railway has been chugging up and down Florida's east coast. The next hundred years shouldn't be much different.

  • News

    June 20, 1996

    Token Ridership

    Metrobus is Dade's most effective public transportation. But when it comes to funding, the bus system and its patrons always get taken for a ride.

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Rick Scott Kills Jobs by Declining Obama's $2.4 Billion High-Speed Rail Plan

    ​The Obama administration was set to spend $2.4 billion to build a high-speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando in a project that would have created thousands of jobs, but Governor Rick Scott has drowned the plan in a big pot of ideological tea killing all those jobs with it. Now, some other sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Even Republicans are Angry Rick Scott Declined High-Speed Rail Funds

    Even some Elephants prefer to travel by train. ​Rick Scott's decision to decline $2.4 billion in federal funds to build a state-of-the-art high-speed rail system in Florida continues to draw anger, ire and confusion today even from many Republicans. Today, a veto-proof majority of 26 state senator ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Rick Scott Pledges $77M to Dredge Port of Miami

    ​Florida's high-speed rail plan is official dead -- done in at the hands of Rick Scott. But the governor giveth as he taketh away. Scott says the state will pick up the tab on funding a project to dredge the Port of Miami, allowing it to handle larger ships. Scott says the project will create 30,0 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Rick Scott Had His Facts Wrong When He Trashed High Speed Rail

    ​Perhaps Rick Scott's biggest action during his first 100 days in office was the killing of Florida's federally-funded high speed rail project. It would have revolutionized our transit system and had an effect on the economy like no other project in recent Florida history. So, you would have hoped ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    New York Times Editorial Rips into Scott's Train Decision

    ​Like someone in mourning, we've tried to forget. We'd just rather not think about how Gov. Rick Scott passed on the high-speed rail package that would have brought billions of dollars, thousands of jobs and a once-in-a-generation transportation upgrade to Florida all on the federal government ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Rick Scott Gets Over His Fear of Trains and Approves SunRail

    ​Gov. Rick Scott has seemed to overcome his hesitations about funding Central Florida's SunRail commuter train program and announced his approval of state funding for the program today. Scott's first big decision in office was surprisingly killing a federally funded high-speed train project, a mov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Rick Scott Wins "Worst Governor Ever" Race

    ​It was real neck and neck at the end, what with the surprise surge by Texas Governor Rick Perry. But Florida's own Rick Scott has been named the "Worst Governor Ever" in a drawn-out, online poll conducted by the Transportation Workers Union of America. With the way things are going right now, it ... More >>

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