Transportation

Amtrak announced the Floridian, a new route between Miami and Chicago. It’ll only take you 47 hours to get to the Windy City.

“The last thing that the public needs is an increase in parking” costs, says Miami Beach Commissioner Alex Fernandez.

Residents registered in the city’s parking discount program will have to pay $2 per hour.

If the Miami-Dade PD catches you on camera breaking the law, it’ll cost you $225 or more, plus a moving violation.

“Downward momentum with peak force on the mirror,” an expert tells New Times. “A decent strike.”

Miami Commissioner Damian Pardo says the city is “investigating the incident to assess the extent of the damage to the barricade.”

Sporting a Scarface shirt, a woman flying from Miami went bonkers and ripped apart a flight attendant’s uniform with her teeth.

A county memo says aging and malfunctioning transit equipment should be replaced through a big-ticket contract with Genfare.

A new round of causeway closures is looming. Prepare for the worst.

How much time and money are you willing to spend during your commute to Miami?

Robotaxis presumably won’t cut you off in a road rage on the Dolphin Expressway. Still, their safety record is under close scrutiny.

Residents and transit advocates were quick to jump aboard the praise train.

Brightline’s new ticket packages are three times more expensive than the commuter passes axed June 1.

Evidently, New Times readers do not need a study to tell them about Miami’s traffic woes.

The study found that the average full-time Miami commuter spends the equivalent of 10 full days in traffic each year.

FDOT is carrying out overnight “complete closures” of eastbound SR 836 during the buildout of a new double-decker highway.

Some items supposedly left in Uber cars include Benihana garlic butter, a framed Taylor Swift autograph, and a “fart sensor.”

Planned FDOT closures snarled traffic on Key Biscayne on April 14 for hours. Drivers were patient and forgiving. (Not.)

The collision ripped the tractor trailer to pieces and sent Brightline passenger Devin Babbit flying across the train cabin, she says.

UHealth’s WalkSafe program says that at intersections with the unsafe traffic-light design, pedestrians have “no warning you can get T-boned.”

The Coral Gables police chief said that the preliminary investigation is indicating the University of Miami student “did everything required by law” in the moments leading up to the crash.

The university says senior Daniel Bishop, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas salutatorian, was killed in a scooter accident in Coral Gables.