Category: Safety

The following is the text provided for the OPD Bulletin. If you would like to duplicate it for your local department, contact me and I will send you the text and illustrations. Many thanks to Officer Edgar for his assistance on this!
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It may not look right because you don’t see it very often, [...]

Demetree Drive in the Waterbridge subdivision
The situation is pretty bad,” he said. ”To add anything to that will get some people killed.” — Travis Killgore, vice president of the Waterbridge Homeowners Association (1997)
I’ve always thought that the bike route from Lakemont to Glenridge was dumb. even before it existed. The bike lane becomes [...]

The USDOT blog features some anti-texting PSAs from AT&T. I followed some links that led me to this program by CTIA (the association of wireless companies):

I realize that teens are a huge risk group with texting. They’ve always been a huge risk group with simply driving because they have notoriously poor judgment. As goes a [...]

…fuel and time.
They also increase emissions, wear and tear, noise and, of course, frustration. We all know how cyclists feel about them. In recent years they’ve infested our neighborhoods as they’re increasingly used to compensate for bad motorist behavior.
Gary Lauder has another idea. What do you think?

Here’s an interview with Lauder on CNN, too.

I’ve had two “where’s the video camera when I need it!” moments in 2 days.
Yesterday
Brad Kuhn (the ED of the new Central Florida FBA chapter) and I were riding back from Maitland on Denning when we witnessed the most bizarre stupid-cyclist-trick I’ve yet seen.
The cyclist was riding just right of center in the right [...]

“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 [...]