Local Advocacy Nets Big Bucks For Bicycle Awareness
The North Florida Bicycle Club was the first bike club to promote the 3-foot passing law (Florida State Statute 316.083, 316.085, pg. 13 in the Florida Bicycle Law Enforcement Guide) with signage on Jacksonville city buses. Their local advocacy efforts attracted the attention of Winter Park attorney and FBA Advisory Board member Hal Downing and members of the BOBbies, a Central Florida women’s only bicycle club. BOBbies members Mary Shanklin, Carol Stevens, Lisa Portelli and Keri Caffrey hit the ground biking by raising funds to support a similar campaign in the Greater Orlando area. To date, $6,800.00 has been raised towards the Lynx Bus Signage campaign to promote the 3-foot passing law including over $2,000.00 from the May “Cycling Smackdown at the Bowling Alley” event. FBA pitched in by agreeing to administer the funds so donations would be tax deductible, plus pledged $1,000.00 towards the campaign. Designed by Keri Caffrey and reproduced by Susan Fortini at FastSigns, the banners to appear on the rear of Lynx buses should be on the road in August. more »
Welcome to the New FBA Website!
How do you like our redesigned websites here and the ProBike/ProWalk Conference site? We are keeping up with the times and possibly even getting a little bit ahead of the curve. You may be noticing that bicycling is all of a sudden getting pretty cool again. And we just want to help.
The new sites are easier to navigate with drop down menus for logical exploring to find the content you desire. And if you can’t find what you need, let us know and we’ll help you find it or add resources.Special thanks go to Roger Pierce and Randall Williams, two of FBA’s former webmasters. Roger passed the baton to Randall in 2002 resulting in a redesign. Now, six years later, Randall has handed off website duties to Keri Caffrey following a search for a webmaster available to devote more time to the site. Keri, as the owner of Keri Caffrey, Inc. , operates a professional design studio with a national client base. Better yet, she’s a bicycle advocate, educator and commutes by bike most days to the office.
Take time to thoroughly explore the new sites and let us know what you think.
One item where we need your help is in building a list of bicycle-friendly attorneys to assist people in finding experienced legal assistance in their area of the state. FBA wants to develop more victim assistance so your suggestions are appreciated. Providing names of attorneys upon request does not mean FBA is a referral service but merely a place to start when searching for counsel. Contact Laura Hallam with recommendations.
NOTE: We have transported the FBA Blog into a WordPress database, it now resides right here on the FBA server. The Blogger site, Flabicycle, will no longer be active. Please change your blogroll links to www.floridabicycle.org.