News - Ferries
By Ani Martinez, The Miami Herald Nov. 6--Door-to-door -- or rather dock-to-dock -- water taxi service may be returning to Fort Lauderdale. City commissioners are scheduled to vote Tuesday night on whether to approve plans for Russo's River Taxi Co.
By Scott Wyman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Mar. 8--Water Taxi will operate its ferry service along Fort Lauderdale's waterways without any taxpayer subsidies for the first time in five years after Broward County commissioners abruptly severed their relations with the company Tuesday.
A water taxi carrying about 25 passengers capsized Saturday in Baltimore's Inner Harbor during a fierce wind storm, killing two people and leaving three others missing, authorities said.
A water taxi with 25 people aboard capsized Saturday in Baltimore's Inner Harbor after a violent gust of wind struck the boat, leaving passengers frantically clinging to the overturned pontoon in frigid waters. Four people are believed to have died.
Police divers searched the Baltimore harbor Sunday for the bodies of three people missing after a water taxi capsized with 25 people aboard. A woman was killed and two others, including an 8-year-old girl, were critically injured.
