Category: Traffic

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. [...]

From the NY Post March 18, 2010:
A Bronx cyclist was killed in a freak accident yesterday when the driver of a parked car opened his door and knocked her into the path of a city bus, authorities said.
The 57-year-old woman, identified as Megan Charlop, from The Bronx, was riding on Crotona Avenue [...]

From Streetfims

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 [...]

…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.

“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 [...]

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 have no excuse but pure laziness. Yesterday evening was beautiful and the wind had even calmed down, but I didn’t feel like riding. So I dragged my feet until time dictated I use the car. Or so I thought. What I forgot about is rush hour traffic.
When I got to General Rees & Glenridge, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]