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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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Orlando Sentinel: Patrols of local crosswalks getting beefed up with schools back in session

  The opening of schools on Monday, Aug. 24 meant a lot more students walking to their school, noted Amanda Day, and it also means more parents driving their kids to school and school buses delivering them. “If you think about it, we have 190,000 kids and students going to […]

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Winter Park Health Foundation: Safer Ways Back to School

Winter Park Health Foundation Posted on Aug. 13, 2015 in Places, WPHF News Cady Way, the street which fronts Brookshire Elementary school in Winter Park, was outfitted with a cycle track in time for the start of the 2015-16 school year.  The new cycle track, a special bike lane featuring a physical barrier (such as a […]

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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 […]

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Orlando Sentinel: Kissimmee Loop Trail joins Osceola’s growing trail network

Orlando Sentinel By Liam Miller For years Orange and Seminole counties have stolen Osceola’s trail thunder, but that’s quickly changing with Shingle Creek Trail under construction and Kissimmee Loop Trail mostly complete. Kissimmee Loop Trail is a 7.8-mile rectangle that will hook into Shingle Creek Trail once that behemoth is finished. […]