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Three Lakes The port currently operates eight passenger terminals six gantry cranes wharves seven Ro-Ro (Roll-on-Roll-off) docks four refrigerated yards for containers break bulk cargo warehouses and nine gantry container handling cranes in addition the port tenants operate the cruise and cargo terminals which includes their cargo handling and support equipment. Applications or other unique situations Main articles: PortMiami Tunnel and PortMiami Deep Dredge Project. ; Non-Hispanic White 11% 57% 63% In 2008 the State of Florida agreed to buy U.S Sugar and all of its manufacturing and production facilities for an estimated $1.7 billion Florida officials indicated they intended to allow U.S Sugar to process for six more years before dismissing its employees and dismantling the plant the area which includes 187,000 acres (760 km2) of land would then be rehabilitated and water flow from Lake Okeechobee would be restored in November 2008 the agreement was revised to offer $1.34 billion allowing sugar mills in Clewiston to remain in production Critics of the revised plan say that it ensures sugarcane will be grown in the Everglades for at least another decade Further research is being done to address the continuing production of sugarcane in the Everglades to minimize phosphorus runoff.

I-95 Sources: Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) is the largest public transit agency in Florida operating rapid transit people movers and an intercity bus system Metrorail is Florida's only rapid transit currently with 23 stations on a 24.4-mile (39.3 km) track the Downtown Miami people mover Metromover operates 20 stations and three lines on a 4.4-mile (7.1 km) track through the Downtown neighborhoods of the Arts & Entertainment District the Central Business District and Brickell Metrobus serves the entirety of Miami-Dade County also serving Monroe County as far south as Marathon and Broward County as far north as downtown Fort Lauderdale in Broward County Broward County Transit runs public buses as does Palm Tran in Palm Beach County Additionally the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority operates Tri-Rail a commuter rail train that connects the three of the primary cities of South Florida (Miami Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach) and most intermediate points, Student housing In December 1979 police officers pursued motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie in a high-speed chase after McDuffie made a provocative gesture towards a police officer the officers claimed that the chase ended when McDuffie crashed his motorcycle and died but the coroner's report concluded otherwise One of the officers testified that McDuffie fell off of his bike on an Interstate 95 on-ramp When the police reached him he was injured but okay the officers removed his helmet beat him to death with their batons put his helmet back on and called an ambulance claiming there had been a motorcycle accident Eula McDuffie the victim's mother said to the Miami Herald a few days later "They beat my son like a dog They beat him just because he was riding a motorcycle and because he was black." a jury acquitted the officers after a brief deliberation, Demographics Golf Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base HST KHST Miami-Dade. ; Mary Brickell Village Lamme and Oldakowski identify several demographic political and cultural elements that characterize South Florida and distinguish it from other areas of the state Many of its differences appear to be driven by its proportionately higher level of migration from the northern U.S states and from the Caribbean and Latin America particularly in the densely populated Miami area Politically South Florida is more liberal than the rest of the state While less than 10% of people in either North or Central Florida felt their area was liberal over a third of South Floridians described their region as such 38% characterized the area as conservative; 26% as moderate This tracks with South Florida's demographics and Lamme and Oldakowski's findings parallel Barney Warf and Cynthia Waddell's research on Florida's political geography during the 2000 Presidential election the economy in South Florida is very similar to that in Central Florida Compared to the more diversified economy in North Florida tourism is by far the most significant industry in South and Central Florida with a much smaller but vibrant agricultural industry.