The team from Orlando put these skills to use on April 14 when they held a Community Bike & Pedestrian Safety Fair to teach people about the temporary safety improvements on Curry Ford Road. Local businesses set up tables at the fair, and the city offered helmet fittings and encouraged people to explore their demonstration project: a road diet that reduced travel lanes, introduced protected bike lanes, and added a new mid-block crossing with a pedestrian refuge. Learn more about the project and how local business owners are responding with this report from WESH Orlando.
Team members from all three cities worked together to come up with design solutions that use safety countermeasures and tactical urbanism to make this intersection safer and easier to navigate for people walking, biking, and driving. Now, we’re seeing some of these ideas come to fruition with the launch of Lexington’s demonstration project. They’ve now extended the pedestrian refuge median to make the intersection safer and more predictable. Check out some recent pictures of the project in the Lexington Herald.