Transforming Central Florida into a Premier Biking and Walking Community! 
More than 100 community leaders and representatives of all Metro Orlando media outlets took time from their busy schedules to spend an hour with us May 30, at Orlando Health, as we pledged to cut pedestrian deaths and injuries in half over the next five years. Our own Linda Chapin […]
Here’s one solution to raise pedestrian visibility at night. Perhaps not the most practical, but you gotta admit, it’s darn effective.As we prepare to roll out our Best Foot Forward community coalition on pedestrian safety, we’d love to hear your ideas on ways we can get our message out into […]
Counting down the days until May 15th. That’s our current target for the public unveiling of this juggernaut we call “Best Foot Forward for Pedestrian Safety.” In the past few days, we’ve met with several more cities, and the Altamonte PD. Want to be a hero? When was the last […]
Momentum is building. The Best Foot Forward team is hard at work developing the educational and promotional materials we’ll be using to raise community awareness of the Florida Statute that requires drivers to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. As the illustration above suggests, enforcement will play an important role in […]
Bike/Walk Central Florida, MetroPlan Orlando, and the Winter Park Health Foundation are launching an 18-month education and enforcement program to help make Metro Orlando safer for pedestrians. Funding for the effort will be provided by MetroPlan Orlando and the Winter Park Health Foundation. In 2010, there were 59 pedestrians killed […]