Category: Motorists

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 [...]

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 [...]

“Yer gonna get run over.” Says the average person (including many cyclists) in any discussion about riding in the lane on a high speed road.
In honor of our favorite jailbirds, Mighk and I decided to head out on a little myth-busting excursion yesterday. Instead of the usual cyclist-chasing-cyclist, we did some motorist-view video. I mounted [...]

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. [...]

Orange Ave – cars track far left, staying clear of the door zone
So, I’m looking at all this traffic footage and something occurs to me. Motorists give other cars considerably more than three feet when they pass. Obviously, lane widths offer plenty of buffer when they are passing moving vehicles in adjacent lanes. But they [...]

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 [...]

Angie Ross writes today’s My Word column in the Orlando Sentinel:
Recent articles in the Orlando Sentinel have highlighted the tensions between motorists and cyclists in Clermont, and I’m afraid my cycling team will feel the backlash.
This is a problem because my team consists not of a pack of 60 roadies, but of my husband and [...]

Tired of that long drive to and from work? Driving boredom getting you down? Feeling out of touch with the internet?

Never fear, the car manufacturers got you covered. It’s called the “infotainment system” and it made a huge splash at the CES in Las Vegas this week. The IT people love it, the safety people [...]

Or designing for people or cars?
One of the challenges of transportation planning is who do you plan for? Cars? Bikes? Pedestrians? Transit? In my experience, it seems all modes take a back seat to the automobile. Parking lots become nightmares for pedestrians. Check out Orange Blossom Trail just north of Holden and you’ll see what [...]