Bike Walk Central Florida details Best Foot Forward results, asks Orange County to maintain pedestrian safety funding

Emily Bush, executive director of Bike Walk Central Florida, told the Transportation Mobility Advisory Commission on Aug. 14 that her nonprofit has partnered with Orange County for more than a decade on pedestrian safety work and youth education, and that the organization needs stable county funding to keep the programs running at current scale.

Why it matters: Bike Walk said its Best Foot Forward pedestrian safety program — a package of enforcement, education and low‑cost engineering countermeasures — has measurable effects on driver behavior at monitored crosswalks and provides technical recommendations the county can use when designing low‑cost safety fixes.

What Bike Walk reported Bush said the organization conducts data collection, before‑and‑after evaluations, enforcement coordination with law enforcement partners, and low‑cost engineering recommendations at crosswalk locations. She said the group also runs Bike Walk Kids youth education, helmet fittings, bike rodeos and bike giveaways in partnership with local hospitals, foundations and governments.

Key program numbers Bush cited: - The organization said it has conducted tens of thousands of staged crossings and data…