Saturday's biking audit of Tour de Parks Route with Dan Moser

On Saturday, Dan Moser took the first group of county staff and committee members on a biking audit of the new Tour de Parks Route.  Thanks to Ann Pierce for organizing the ride and to Dan Moser for his informative and eye-opening tour.

 

 

Ann Pierce of BikeWalkLee, who's a member of the County's Local Planning Agency (LPA) and Community Sustainability Advisory Committee (CSAC) organized the first of hopefully many biking audit tours of the new Tour de Parks Route.  The initial invites went to county advisory committee members whose decisions on bike/ped matters have real impact on others' lives, so it was an opportunity for them to experience and learn about the cycling in this area.

 

Below are several photos from the tour, led by Dan Moser, of BikeWalkLee and the County's long-time expert on all biking facilities throughout the county.  Thanks to Dan for his excellent tour and to Ann Pierce for organizing.  The full photo album with captions is on our Facebook page (BikeWalkLee):  Biking Audit--Tour de Parks with Dan Moser (13 photos).

  

If you're interested in participating in a future tour, contact us.

 

Lee MPO Staff Director, Don Scott, presented FBA award

Don Scott receiving FBA award from Dan Moser

At Friday's MPO Board meeting, FBA's Dan Moser presented Don Scott, the Lee MPO staff director, with the Florida Bicycling Association (FBA) Supporting Agency of the Year award for his efforts to make bicycle/pedestrian access and safety a priority.  BikeWalkLee congratulates Don on this well deserved honor.

Click here to read BWL's March 2nd blog post announcing the FBA awards.
 
At Friday's presentation, Dan also recognized Billy Hattaway, FDOT District 1 Secretary, who was presented with the

FBA Bicycle Professional of the Year award earlier this week in Tallahassee, for his leadership efforts to improve bike/ped safety throughout Florida.  Lee County is lucky to have this statewide champion working in our FDOT district.

MPO wants public to report traffic congestion

Every year the MPO asks for public input on areas that are congested and that can be improved with "quick fix" improvements...which includes improvements that make the roadways safer for pedestrians and cyclists.  Take a few minutes to share your suggestions with the MPO.  Thanks!

REPORT CONGESTED LOCATIONS

The Lee County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) needs your help in identifying congested roadways for which it may be able to identify “quick fix” improvements such as retiming traffic signals, restriping travel lanes etc. More expensive strategies like countywide signal timing update, intersection improvements, ITS deployments may be addressed through the MPO priority process, and implemented with federal funds sub allocated to the MPO.  If you are aware of any congested locations, please fill out an interactive form online by April 13th. 

Public input through these annual surveys since 1998 has been responsible for funding tens of million dollars’ worth of traffic operations improvements in Lee County that have addressed both congestion and safety, and have benefited motorists, vulnerable road users (bicyclists/pedestrians/motorcyclists), and public transit.

Note that there are specific questions for pedestrians and cyclists.  It's your opportunity to tell the MPO that you bike or walk to work or school; to identify intersections that lack marked crosswalks and pedestrian push button signals; and to identify locations where the sidewalks are too narrow.

Click here to fill out the form.  Thanks for participating!