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Operation Best Foot Forward gets social

Best Foot Forward is making impressions – one person at a time on its social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter. BFF earned 208,626 impressions – the number of people on social media who viewed August’s Operation Best Foot Forward coverage. And we had a few favorite social media posts and […]

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Operation Best Foot Forward enforces back-to-school crosswalk crackdown

Local law enforcement conducted another crosswalk crackdown on Aug. 26 as students across Orange County returned to school from summer break.  Dubbed Operation Best Foot Forward, the Orlando Police Department (OPD) and the Orange County Sherriff’s Office (OCSO) issued tickets and verbal warnings to over 200 drivers. Motorists were pulled over if they failed to […]

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A new perspective on ped safety

  Having lived in Orlando for close to three years, I’ve learned that defensive driving is the rule of the road. After witnessing Operation Best Foot Forward, a day where undercover police cross the street to enforce drivers to yield, I have a whole new perspective. My new perspective is […]

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How to get more people biking? Women transportation planners

There’s one woman for every three men riding a bike in the United States. So how do you get more women to bike? Well, hire more women transportation planners. According to a Time Magazine story, women are “changing the rulebook for how we design streets, and how we entice more […]

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Craig Hersch: Bicyclists and Motorists

BikeWalkLee Blog By Craig Hersch Craig Hersch, a local estate planning attorney and avid cyclist, wrote an excellent column in light of a recent “road rage” incident on Sanibel, which appeared in the Aug. 7th Island Sun.  His column struck a cord, and Craig graciously gave BikeWalkLee permission to print […]