Posts from April, 2009

[ May 29, 2009; 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ]

[ May 22, 2009; 8:30 am to 9:30 am. ] Mayor’s ride to City Hall starts at Infusion Tea
1600 Edgewater Dr.

Bike to Work with Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer in support of reducing our impact on the environment!

Gather, then ride into Downtown ending at Orlando City Hall.

Free coffee or tea to anyone who commutes by bicycle and brings their own mug.

Free tune-ups from Kyle’s Bike Shop [...]

[ May 6, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Public Input Meeting: Bicycle & Pedestrian Route Plan for Eatonville, Maitland & Winter Park

Maitland Civic Center, 641 South Maitland Avenue

Who Should Attend: Anyone interested in helping design a system of signed routes to assist you in locating important local destinations, including parks, recreation areas and other places to be active in Eatonville, Maitland and Winter [...]

Note the size and parking-placement differences. The pick-up truck has a much larger door than the economy car, too.
The narrative for this video is pretty compelling. First reaction is, “Wow! What an improvement over the door zone bike lane!” But looking closely at the distance between the cyclist and the door, it looks like that [...]

What does this road need? Here’s some context:
It’s in a Mayberry-like hamlet about the size of my neighborhood, with less population density, surrounded by empty rural land and lakes. We’ve really hit bottom when a place like this needs bike lanes to be “bike friendly.”
My neighborhood <|> Howey in the Hills
Mighk already wrote a post [...]

[ May 2, 2009; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] At Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando.

Live music plus many fun and educational activities will be happening throughout the day at Central Florida Earth Day! Come out for the whole day and take in as much as you can.

It’s a great destination for a bike ride!

More info on their website: http://www.cfearthday.org/

Have you ever had one of those “epiphany moments” when something that was always obvious –yet subtly hidden– then explodes into your consciousness and you experience the  light-bulb “AHA!! Yes!! Of Course!!!” moment?
It happened to me at the most recent Florida Bicycle Association quarterly meeting in West Palm Beach, where I had been invited as a guest [...]

[ April 24, 2009; 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ]

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A few months ago, I wrote about my short-trip route to the grocery store. I recently moved from Maitland/Casselberry to Audubon Park, so I thought I’d do the exercise again.
In keeping with Andy Cline’s One Mile Solution, I’ll start with my mile—give or take. The pink highlights on [...]

This Associated Press article caught my eye.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut state police union leaders and Gov. M. Jodi Rell are at odds over whether to spend $600,000 in federal funds to improve markings on police cruisers.
The unions representing Connecticut’s troopers and police supervisors say there are better ways to spend the money, which is part [...]