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Best Foot Forward Annual Report
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Best Foot Forward’s First Annual Report

Best Foot Forward’s first-ever annual report focuses on the efforts’ origins, goals, and Triple E efforts employed in the areas of enforcement, engineering and education with measured progress. In one year, yield rates have jumped from 12% to 48% in the observed intersections on streets posted at 35 mph and […]

Radio Disney Safe Summer Travel Interview
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Radio Disney Safe Summer Travel Interview

We had a great time at Radio Disney studios recently when we joined MetroPlan Orlando to tape an interview about safe summer travel – by foot, bike, car, train and plane. Interview aired on Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.

Sentinel: Drivers who hit pedestrians often get little or no jail time
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Sentinel: Drivers who hit pedestrians often get little or no jail time

(Part of the Orlando Sentinel series, Blood in the Streets) Anguish turned to anger for Bobby Stout’s mother and sister in April, when an Orange County circuit judge decided the woman who ran him down on a sidewalk two years ago would not get any jail time. “When you killed […]

Sentinel: A rage that consumes
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Sentinel: A rage that consumes

(Part of the Orlando Sentinel series, Blood in the Streets) Letters from colleges across the country still arrive addressed to the dead son of Jessica Rodriguez and George Torres. Each one is a reminder of the life that could have been for the boy who wanted to be the nation’s […]

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Sentinel: Walking our roads could kill you

(Part of the Orlando Sentinel 3-part series, Blood in the Streets) Central Florida’s roads run red with pedestrian blood. Nowhere in America are pedestrians at greater risk of being struck and seriously injured or killed. Nowhere are drivers more likely to suffer the life-changing split second of taking someone’s life […]