Category: Motorist Education

And we can do the same on University Boulevard, see…

This video is from the UCF Bike Bus during morning rush hour. We had a perfect ride, just like this, the whole way.
The traffic was thick enough that we pulled up behind the same cars at two consecutive traffic lights. Yet with a little cooperation from [...]

I kid you not, there is an expert at everything on the internet.
Just so you know, there are people who claim to have the “secret” to riding in a bike lane next to parked cars like we have in Orlando in College Park and Baldwin Park.
Here is Gary from California explaining how to do it. [...]

Bob Sutterfield has written an excellent letter to his local paper about the problem of motorists passing into oncoming traffic. This is the only regular problem I have with car drivers. I rarely experience close passing. Harassment comes from significantly less than 1% of drivers I encounter. I almost never have conflicts or scary moments [...]

My Dad is over 80-years old and he is a gutter bunny. This would not be so bad, except that he drives his truck that way, almost in the gutter and if you are in the gutter and he is in the gutter he will not move over much.
He drives with his right wheels on [...]

A question from a reader: “Could you give us the story behind the new triangles painted on the pavement at some crosswalks? When I showed pictures to friends and co-workers, nobody knew what they meant.”
Such a series of triangles is called a yield line.  They’re informally referred to as “shark’s teeth.”  They are used [...]

Editorial from the Parsippany, NJ Daily Record
OK, maybe we sound like killjoys, but we don’t see anything all that amusing about bad drivers. Oddly enough, the AAA New Jersey Automobile Club does.
AAA affiliates across the country are promoting a new reality show called “America’s Worst Driver.” Shown on The Travel Channel, [...]

This video is from our first real road ride, Tuesday, Feb 9. Late morning, we headed to lunch a round-about way. The instructors plan routes to use major roads like John Young and US 441 to initiate the officers in operating around large, fast, noisy motor vehicles. It also embeds the principle that bicycles are [...]

I was pleased that somebody is doing something, but then I read that line and I wonder what they are doing.
Law-enforcement officers throughout Orange County are conducting targeted traffic details today at locations that have a high rate of pedestrian and bicyclist accidents.
The enforcement is intended to bring a heightened awareness to both drivers and [...]

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. [...]

Photo by Mighk
Today was a stellar day! The weather was perfect and my work for today consisted of shooting on-bike video for the Law Enforcement Toolkit. The objective was to shoot the best practices of bicycle driving with a uniformed officer. My subject was Bill Edgar of OPD (with appearances by Mighk). Bill runs the [...]