Fort Lauderdale Car Service — FLL Terminals, Port Everglades Berths, and Beyond

Fort Lauderdale dispatch revolves around three pinch points that can ruin an otherwise simple trip: the 17th Street Causeway bascule bridge (which opens on the hour and half-hour for yacht traffic and can hold you 6-10 minutes), the New River bridges on SE 3rd Avenue and Andrews Avenue (on-demand openings for commercial river traffic), and the Florida East Coast (FEC) railway crossings on Broward Boulevard, Sunrise Boulevard, and Oakland Park Boulevard (Brightline passenger and freight). For FLL runs from Las Olas we route SE 17th Street West to US-1 South, then Eller Drive into the airport — this avoids both the 17th Street Causeway bridge openings and the I-95 southbound merge from Broward Boulevard that backs up weekday mornings. Port Everglades cruise transfers require terminal-specific routing: Terminal 2 (Celebrity, Princess) and Terminal 4 (Royal Caribbean, including the Icon of the Seas megaship berth) are accessed from Eller Drive, while Terminal 18 (Celebrity Edge-class) and Terminal 19 are accessed from the Eisenhower Boulevard south entrance. We drop at the specific terminal every time — a Terminal 4 drop at the Terminal 2 entrance means a 15-20 minute walk with luggage along a working cruise pier. The Brightline station at 101 NW 2nd Avenue (between Broward Blvd and Himmarshee) is a growing pickup point; the porte-cochère loads are short and enforcement is strict, so we stage one block west on NW 3rd Ave when Brightline arrivals cluster. Las Olas Boulevard is the restaurant row and it closes for events regularly — the Boat Show load-out in late October-early November, the Tortuga Music Festival in April on Fort Lauderdale Beach, Winterfest Boat Parade in December, and the monthly Las Olas Art Fair weekends. The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show specifically fills the Bahia Mar and Broward County Convention Center simultaneously, and the 17th Street Causeway becomes single-lane in sections — during show week we default to Seabreeze Boulevard alternates. Hurricane-season flooding regularly affects Las Olas between SE 8th and SE 15th Avenues, Sunrise Boulevard at the Middle River bridge, and the Galt Ocean Mile near Oakland Park. Wilton Manors pickups (NE 26th Street through NE 13th Street on Wilton Drive) use Sunrise Boulevard to I-95 for airport runs. Coral Ridge and the Galt Ocean Mile use Oakland Park Boulevard to I-95 — Bayview Drive becomes a parking lot during winter season weekends.