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People On Foot

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs puts her best foot forward for pedestrian safety

In the recent Orange County Connect Newsletter, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs discusses her commitment to pedestrian safety in letter to readers. Greetings, As families prepare for the first day of school in Orange County, I encourage you to join our efforts to keep our most precious citizens safe as […]

People On Bikes

BWL Column: Cyclists should ride right and go with the flow

Our friends at BikeWalkLee touched on an important issue in their recent column post regarding cyclists riding with or against traffic. Check out their post below and visit their blog for more great stories from BikeWalkLee. Wrong-way bicycling has gotten a lot of attention lately. Yesterday’s News-Press included an open letter to […]

People On Bikes

The Washington Post: Don’t Make Bicyclists More Visible.

One Washington Post writer shared his thoughts about the new technology coming out for people on bikes.  Don’t Make Bicyclists More Visible. Make Drivers Stop Hitting Them. By Eben Weiss About 100 years ago, the auto industry pulled off a neat trick: It stole the public roadways from us. See, […]

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StreetsBlog: The Critical Difference Between 30 MPH and 20 MPH

StreetsBlog Network shared an article about reducing vehicle speed the discusses why decrease of just 10 miles an hour can save lives: It might seem like a small thing: reducing motor vehicle speeds 10 miles per hour. But that 10 mph can make an enormous difference for the safety of […]

Newsletter

13 Floridians Attend The National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C.

Team Florida – which was made up of 13 Floridians – worked from the “top down and bottom up” to advocate bicycling. Bike/Walk Central Florida’s own Lisa Portelli and Amanda Day were among Team Florida – who represented the state at this year’s League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit in […]