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Central Florida American Society for Public Administration honors BWCF with Public Service Excellence Award

Big thanks to the Central Florida Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) for honoring Bike Walk Central Florida (BWCF) with their Public Service Excellence award! The award highlights public organizations that excel in promoting the role, ethics, and ideas of public administration. BWCF was recognized for our […]

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BFF presents to the Callahan Head Start

This quick presentation was a discussion about what the City of Orlando and Orange County are doing to make streets safer here in town. We also went over the Florida driver-yield laws to make sure everyone in the room understands who has the right-of-way. Some of the questions we received are […]

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FDOT brings buffered bike lanes to Florida roads

Big news, Florida bikers: new bike lanes are getting wider. FDOT has changed its buffered bike lane standards from 5 feet to 7 feet. That’s 24 extra inches for you and your bicycle to be protected from fast-moving traffic. This means that the white painted line that normally separates humans on […]

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Real estate developers, USDOT Secretary Foxx to discuss walkable neighborhoods

Walkable neighborhoods are stronger when a variety of different people can afford to live there. What a better way to make this happen than to gather real estate developers from across the country to talk about how they can help. The collective discussion will happen as part of the 2015 […]

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Panama City News Herald: Money for bike, running trails part of special session

Panama City News Herald By Jim Turner TALLAHASSEE — Voter-approved money for land and water conservation could be used to help create asphalt and concrete bicycle and running paths across Florida. Among the bills that will be discussed in a special legislative session next month is a transportation measure (SB […]