Orlando Sentinel By Susan Jacobson Aug. 18, 2015 Novice driver José Lopez, 21, was hoping to leave the Orange County Tax Collector's Office with a learner's permit in hand. Instead, Lopez last week became one of thousands of Floridians who…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G0FbESxi-A ORLANDO, Fla. – Children are the least predictable pedestrian and the most difficult to see. Last year in Orange County, 74 children under the age of 14 collided with a car. Motorists failing to yield are sometimes to blame.…
Denning Drive in Winter Park is going on a diet. This month, the Winter Park Community Redevelopment Agency approved $500,000 in funding for a project to turn the four-lane Denning Drive, between Webster and Fairbanks avenues, into a road with…
Orlando Sentinel By Steven Lemongello Aug. 11, 2015 Denning Drive in Winter Park could lose one or two traffic lanes and gain a bike path. At its meeting Monday, the Winter Park Community Redevelopment Agency approved $500,000 in funding for…
Fourth- and fifth-graders and families at Clermont’s Pine Ridge Elementary School saw a big problem with the lack of sidewalks for the students living within the two-mile “walk zone” of school. And they presented the solution to policymakers and community…
A big “BFF Thank You” goes to MetroPlan Orlando for supporting the expansion of the Best Foot Forward Pedestrian Safety model into Osceola and Seminole counties over the next couple years. MetroPlan Orlando allocated $100,000 in its 2015-16 budget for the expansion in July. Pedestrian…