Category: Safety

“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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

No matter what we drive, let’s all make due care and courtesy on the road a resolution for 2010.
Tell your friends and family. Tell your coworkers. The roads are a public space where we all interact every day. What happens there affects our state of mind, the way we feel about our fellow citizens and [...]

Until recently, for folks out there who are interested in learning how to ride on the streets safely,  there were not many choices.
If you were lucky enough, you found a training class, or maybe you found a mentor who could show you how to ride.   Or, with the Internet you could surf to find fleeting glimpses of articles [...]

Do you know someone that is accident prone? I know I do.
I have a brother and a sister that are accident prone and have been since they were children. I’m the oldest, so I witnessed the gore. Knocked out teeth, stitches in foreheads and broken bones were routine among those two, whereas my other sister [...]

This idea just popped into my head as I rolled up my driveway.  A vehicle belonging to a business had just passed me, and while this driver was not rude (and people driving company vehicles generally know better than to pull nonsense like that), I thought about the times I had been able to contact [...]

 
So …………………. the wife wants to get me this for a X-mas present.  And it’s a nice vest, lightweight, and very reflective (here is the actual link to the product).  I have no doubt it would increase my visibility on the road.
But ….. is this bad for cycling?
By wearing this, am I announcing to the [...]

Today, for the first time,  I rode Edgewater Drive by bicycle in a passive manner. I’ve done it in an assertive manner with no trouble, but I decided to see how a gutter bunny would handle it.
It took every bit of  skill I had to accomplish this. I rode, as the City of Orlando and [...]