Transforming Central Florida into a Premier Biking and Walking Community! 
Crosswalk infrastructure makes a difference. We can prove it. When Best Foot Forward launched in 2012, only 19 percent of drivers yielded to pedestrians in the marked crosswalk at the Lake Underhill Trail. Thanks to targeted education, high-visibility enforcement operations, and state of the art engineering enhancements by the City of Orlando, […]
Orlando Sentinel Jeff Weiner When Orlando leaders recently unveiled their long-term vision for downtown’s future, it was of a city where cyclists and walkers feel as much at home as people who get around on four wheels. While bigger plans, like a two-way Orange Avenue, are likely a long way […]
Orlando Sentinel Michael W. Freeman [email protected] or 407-420-5290 Amanda Day has a video she likes to present, showing a man doing something simple: crossing the street on Edgewater Drive in College Park. It almost looks like a horror movie, Day noted. The man in the video steps into the crosswalk […]
Does this intersection look familiar? It is Robinson Street – in 2025, thanks to a new vision plan created by Project DTO Advancing Downtown Orlando. You may be asking, what does 2025 look like? Picture Robinson Street as a two-lane street instead of four, with bike lanes, larger sidewalks and more landscaping. Then […]
National Bike to School Day May 6, 2015 Hundreds of students participated in the day’s activities 30+ schools participated Dommerich Elementary and Maitland Middle School Maitland Mayor McDonald walked with students and parents, accompanied by the Maitland Police Healthy Central Florida handed out water bottles and healthy snacks to students who […]