Category: Commute

I’ve noticed a lot more traffic on the road just in the last few weeks.
from the Wall Street Journal.
While $3-a-gallon gasoline can be seen as a symbol of economic gains, it’s expected to spark some consumer protests and flashbacks of the overheated markets that led to $4 gasoline. Retail gasoline prices hit [...]

“It was determined, when doing the design of this construction project, that traffic volumes were just too high,” said spokeswoman Ashley Hungate. “There are too many lanes to cross safely to put the pedestrian signal in.”

While this quote comes to us from Indiana, it could just as well be from Florida.  In Eric’s recent entry [...]

Someone that thought I would appreciate it gave me a bike last week. What do you think?
It’s not as old as it looks. Even though it has 28″ wheels and old- timey brakes, my bike was built in January 1977 in Nottingham, Egland although it looks as though it is from the ’30’s. It has [...]

If you, one day, had to appear before a jury of your motorist peers, do you think wearing a beard would help you? I don’t. I would shave it off.
Would you call Mighk as an expert witness to help you? I don’t think I would.
Mighk has a tougher row to hoe than most of us [...]

As Orlando increases its cycling ridership, I am starting a small project with some of my cycling friends, that may help other commuters and cyclists feel more comfortable in using their bicycle in the urban Orlando environment. We are calling it the No Excuse Zone, based on a project that our company did for Sydney [...]

We’ve often said that better public transportation is necessary to solve our traffic (in)justice problems. The fact that driving a car is necessary for some people to get to work, makes it incredibly difficult to revoke their privilege when they prove unworthy of it. Driving has become a de facto entitlement because there are so [...]

I-4 Speed Limit Sign: 50 MPH
of the worst commutes in the country.
Forbes Magazine ranked the 60 largest MSAs and ranked Orlando the fourth worst at 57th out of the 60.
Overall Rank: 57
2007 Travel Delay: 42
Green Commuting: 50
Travel Time: 37
Who was the worst? Tampa/St. Pete. The best? Salt Lake City.
Orlando ranked worse than Los Angeles [...]

This weekend has been beautiful riding weather and I got to put in 4 hours of recreational riding. Most of my time in the saddle was spent taking in the sight and sounds of the open road/trying to hang onto the back tire of the rider in front of me, but the rest was spent [...]

I was once told that the most efficient and reliable man-made tool was the bicycle chain. I rediscovered this great invention 6 years ago when I started grad school and needed to save money on gas, parking, time, etc. I say rediscovered because like most children I learned to ride a bike during my elementary [...]

Semoran Blvd & University in Orange County
The last two years have brought unprecedented change to the nation and to Central Florida. The financial crisis virtually dried up credit. This caused the housing bubble to burst putting Florida’s housing industry sales into free fall. Unemployment, foreclosures and out-migration rippled through the economy. [...]