BFF joined Orange County staff members at the 2015 Clarcona Elementary School Open House on September 17th. Staff members fitted students with helmets while BFF handed out pedestrian safety goodies. We were so glad to see parents so engaged in…
https://youtu.be/gUj7BI97J5Q BWCF executive director, Amanda Day, met up with WESH news to talk about preventing PED deaths after a person was tragically hit and killed by a car on State Road 50 this week. State Road 50 was shut down…
https://youtu.be/mq3DxArKAEo America’s Doctor wants Americans to walk more. Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, released his “Step It Up” call to action Wednesday at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Total Health in Washington, District of Columbia, saying Americans need to walk…
A word that keeps popping up as the Florida Department of Transportation moves toward safer streets is road diet. The concept can be hard to wrap your head around. If you need a visual, take a look at these four short…
The grand opening of the pedestrian and bicycle bridge in Kissimmee celebrated the imagination and partnership that made this new edition possible. The 220 bridge crosses over John Young Parkway just north of Colombia Avenue. It’s one of the final keys in the…
The city of Maitland is exploring different avenues to curb traffic in its downtown district. One of those routes includes taking one eponymous cut-through street into city custody. At their last City Council meeting on Aug. 24, members of the…
Guess what – Central Floridians are looking for alternatives to driving – and it shows with increased use of public transportation, and walking and biking. MetroPlan Orlando surveyed more than 1,000 Central Florida residents about their transportation habits and wants…
By Kellie Woods, BWCF/BFF intern Having lived in Orlando for close to three years now, I have always just assumed that defensive driving was the rule of the road. Now, after witnessing Operation Best Foot Forward with Best Foot Forward,…
Best Foot Forward is making impressions – one person at a time on its social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter. BFF earned 208,626 impressions – the number of people on social media who viewed August's Operation Best Foot Forward coverage.…