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People On Bikes

Mizell Ave. in Winter Park to close for construction

Heads up, CFL riders! The Crosby Wellness Center in Winter Park is about to get a much-needed renovation that will require Mizell Ave., near the center, to temporarily be closed to thru traffic. This route is close to the Cady Way Trail and is often used by people biking. The […]

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Orlando’s summer of sharrows

Look out, City Beautiful, Orlando’s working towards a new moniker – the City Bikeable. Earlier this year, we shared an Orlando Sentinel story about the City of Orlando installing 50 new bike sharrows – markings in the road that tell drivers that they must share the road with people biking. […]

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‘Incredible’ bike ride ends with plans for more

Lisa Portelli was in a foreign place the other day, behind the wheel of her car on her way to a business appointment instead of on a bike seat. A board member of Bike/Walk Central Florida, Portelli recently completed a nearly 2,000-mile cycling trip, riding from Portland, Maine to St. […]

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What do walking and biking have to do with the I-4 Ultimate?

So what could I-4 – an interstate highway designed to move cars from one place to another as fast as possible – have to do with biking and walking? A lot actually. Especially near on and off-ramps where people bike or walk quite regularly. Our Best Foot Forward for pedestrian […]

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2,176 miles in 19 days: Maine to Florida bike ride travel log

Update: Friday, July 1, 2016 In BWCF board member Lisa Portelli’s own words I am going to try to summarize our Maine to Florida bicycle trip. It’s impossible to capture about 2186 miles of riding in a FB post, and this is only one perspective, but here goes. The map […]