Posted By Ken Storey on Mon, May 3, 2021 at 12:31 PM click to enlarge Photo by Barry Kirsch Lake Baldwin Park The pandemic has dramatically altered how people interact with the physical world outside of their homes. A new academic study looks at how public spaces, such as parks, public transit, and libraries, were impacted by the pandemic. It finds disturbing data on racial/ethnic inequalities among park use. The Harvard-backed researchers lay out their findings after reviewing more than 5,600 parks across the nation. The data, which looks at 2018 through late 2020, points to similar park usage in majority white and majority people of color areas. However, that changes dramatically after the pandemic begins. Both areas see a rapid
Posted By Ken Storey on Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:15 PM click to enlarge Image via City of Orlando & Community Redevelopment Agency Some proposals for Future Orlando include bicycles with their own green pathways on which to ride, divided from both traffic and pedestrians. Central Florida remains one of the fastest-growing regions of the nation, and with that growth comes plenty of traffic woes, but Tanya Wilder hopes these problems will soon be a thing of the past. The lifelong Orlando resident has worked for the City of Orlando for eight years, with the last four as a Transportation Policy Advisor. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer selected Wilder to be the director of the city s transportation department earlier this year.
Early settlers called Orlando's beloved Lake Eola simply “the lake” but also referred to it as Sandy Beach, after a stretch of sand that would appear along the east end during dry weather. We know a lot about the park area’s history, but that vowel-packed name Eola bears a trace of mystery. It’s not a common moniker.
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