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Extra patrols will hit Jacksonville streets beginning this week to help improve bicyclist and pedestrian safety through a new High Visibility Enforcement project funded by the University of North Florida. The $57,096 contract from the university, in partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation, is specifically designed to pay for Sheriff’s Office overtime traffic deployments. Enforcement efforts will focus primarily on educating drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, the Sheriff s Office said. However, violations may result in warnings or citations depending on the circumstances. It s the right time for renewed education and enforcement in Jacksonville, said Stephen Tocknell, advocacy director for the North Florida Bicycle Club. The city had eight bicycling deaths in 2020, plus one in Clay County and another on Florida A1A just south of Ponte Vedra Beach. That s according to an interactive map of bicycle crashes and fatalities assembled by Outside, an onlin

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