Transforming Central Florida into a Premier Biking and Walking Community! 
Drop a stone into a pond and you’ll see the ripples in the water. Send a police officer out on a crosswalk and you’ll see drivers slowing down for pedestrians nearby. For February’s Operation Best Foot Forward, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office received requests to conduct enforcement at two crosswalks not […]
Attention Drivers: That Pedestrian You Just Cut-Off Might be a Cop. Operation Best Foot Forward draws attention to Crossing Guard Awareness Month by cracking down on crosswalk violators near schools What: February is Crossing Guard Awareness Month and throughout Orange County Public Schools there are more than 450 school crossing guards. These […]
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 […]
Now playing at a City of Orlando office near you: Best Foot Forward for Pedestrian Safety videos! Produced through the city’s talented communications department, these are the first two in a series of public service videos to get more drivers to yield to peds and for peds to use crosswalks. The 40-second spots explain the driver […]
Talk about PED engagement. Try this: More than$100,000 worth of media coverage and reaching 1 million+ people through 6 TV stations, 3 community pubs and a host of online bloggers. Not to mention Facebook, Twitter, Instagram…with likes, retweets, comments from the Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Department of Education, Streetsblog USA, Smart Growth American (Dangerous by […]