Newsletter / Safe Routes to School
Click here to review the report created by BWCF board member, Rick Geller, highlighting the details of this project. Winter Park balks at double bike lanes near school Winter Park attorney Rick Geller and a group of parents are pushing the city to build a double bike lane by Brookshire […]
News To Use / Newsletter / Social Ride
Amanda Day, 43, is the executive director of Bike/Walk Central Florida, a nonprofit that promotes bicycle and pedestrian safety throughout Metro Orlando. Members push to develop and maintain recreational trails and make sure roads are built to accommodate walkers and bicyclists. Day spoke recently with Orlando Sentinel transportation writer Dan […]
Community Events / Newsletter
Give MetroPlan Orlando Your Opinion on Paratransit Services Public Hearing The Transportation Disadvantaged Local Coordinating Board is seeking public input about ACCESS LYNX service in Central Florida. Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:00 a.m. MetroPlan Orlando (click here for directions) 315 East Robinson Street, Suite 355, Orlando, FL 32801 Comments from […]
News To Use
By Dan Tracy One of the least enforced, most ignored laws on Orlando’s books says it is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk within the city limits. There are exceptions, such as bike- and pedestrian-only paths, but regular, old sidewalks are off-limits. The rule has been around since […]
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MetroPlan Orlando uses Bike and Ped Counts to learn how many pedestrians and cyclists use crosswalks and sidewalks here in Orlando. As an intern with Bike/Walk Central Florida, I got the chance to volunteer for the September 11th count at the intersection of Webster and Denning in Winter Park. It was […]