Recent Blog Posts

• After the Loop’s Gone, What’s Next for Key West Transit? November 29, 2025
• Why Key West Ruins Everything — And Why I’m Still Grateful to Call It Home November 27, 2025
• The Crosstown Greenway — The Locals’ Not-So-Secret Bikeway November 7, 2025
• After the Cuts: Can Key West Transit Rise Again? October 12, 2025
• 🌈 This Is Just the Beginning: Rainbows Return to Duval October 7, 2025
• No Director, No Department, No Direction: Monroe County’s Transit Collapse September 21, 2025
• Duval Loop Eliminated: A Tragedy — and a Turning Point September 14, 2025
• From Rainbow Crosswalks to Rainbow Museums September 10, 2025
• Katie Halloran’s Quiet Revolution September 7, 2025
• Could Tourist Dollars Be The Answer to Our Transit Funding Problem? August 31, 2025
• Key West Rides Overwhelmed After Conch Connect Shutdown—City Pushes Alternative Buses Amid 36% Spike in Trip Requests August 26, 2025
• Even If You’ll Never Ride the Bus, You’ll Feel It When It’s Gone August 24, 2025
• Transit Is Collapsing in the Keys. Will Business Leaders Let It? August 17, 2025
• Dumb and Dumber Transit Cuts: A Failure of Leadership in the Keys August 3, 2025
• Zero Fatalities by 2035 – Key West Aims for Safer Streets for All July 27, 2025
• Conch Disconnect: Repeal Without Replace Is Just Regression July 24, 2025
• Conch Disconnect: County Scraps Transit Service for Local Workers July 20, 2025
• Making the Duval Loop Free and Easy Helps Downtown Prosper July 14, 2025
• The $1 Mistake: How Key West Is Undermining the Duval Loop, Again July 6, 2025
• Key West is Florida’s Best Biking City. Could It Become the Paris of Small Cities? July 1, 2025
• Just Six Months Old, Conch Connect Micro-Transit Is Already Beating Expectations January 24, 2025
• Rebuild of South Street Is Complete and Includes Brand New Bike Lane January 17, 2025
• Commissioner Lee Is Right. It’s Time To Get Fast Moving E-Bikes Off Our Promenades January 10, 2025
• Work To Upgrade Lower Keys Shuttle Bus Stops Completed September 13, 2024
• Come on Man! Wrap and Brand the Duval Loop Buses! July 26, 2024
• Conch Connect – A New County Sponsored On-Demand Micro-Transit Begins Serving Key West and Stock Island July 15 July 12, 2024
• City’s Expands “Work Force Express” Bus Route and Potentially Ruins It In the Process July 5, 2024
• Key West Improves Its PeopleforBikes Bike Score and Ranks as #1 in Florida, #44 in U.S.A. and #116 in World June 28, 2024
• Governor’s Veto Means Local Key West Arts Groups, Theaters and Museums Lose Funds June 21, 2024
• A Father’s Gift of Time June 16, 2024
• Progress On Seven Projects Equals Big Wins for Our Downtown, Even If It Is On Key West Time June 7, 2024
• A New Transit Service Is Coming This Summer. Our Workforce Needs It and Much More Transit Up and Down the Keys May 24, 2024
• Know a Good Spot for Bicycle Parking? There’s An App for That May 3, 2024
• Rebuild of United Street With New Bike Lane & Improved Pedestrian Safety Complete. South Street Is Next April 19, 2024
• New Data Makes Duval Street Revitalization More Concrete April 12, 2024
• March Madness and the Duval Loop March 29, 2024
• Monroe County to City’s Request for Bike Lane: Drop Dead March 8, 2024
• Key West Improving Infrastructure for Pedestrian Safety March 1, 2024
• There Goes The Key West Gayborhood? February 16, 2024
• Streets for People Improves Our Environment, Affordable Housing, Health, and Safety. It Boosts a Local’s Economy and Makes Us Happier Too February 9, 2024
• Streets for People / Project Seeks To Make Duval Street Resilient in Face of Sea Level Rise February 2, 2024
• Key West Ruins Everything Or Why I’m Grateful to Call Key West Home November 23, 2023
• Streets for People / Is It Really Too Late For Bike Lanes on S. Roosevelt Boulevard? August 4, 2023
• Hunting for Parking: Making the Case to End Free Parking for Visitors In Downtown Key West July 21, 2023
• Streets for People / PeopleforBikes Says Key West Is a “Great” Bicycling City and Ranks It #17 in U.S.A. June 29, 2023
• Streets for People / New Staples Avenue Bike/Ped Bridge Coming This Fall June 23, 2023
• New Garden View Apartments Residents Being Provided Bus and Bike Incentives to Go Car-Free June 16, 2023
• City Wants Your Help In Locating New Bike Parking June 2, 2023
• Streets for People / Helping Islanders Go Car-Free Or Car-Lite Can Help With Our Affordable Housing Crisis May 18, 2023
• Brand New Bike Lanes Coming to United and South Streets May 5, 2023
• Streets for People / New “Workforce Express” Key West Transit Service Begins May 15 Between Stock Island and Bahama Village May 3, 2023
• Streets for People / County Officials Reserved On-Street Parking Stands In Way of Completing Southard Street Bike Lane April 21, 2023
• Streets for People / The Canary In Our Florida Keys Coal Mine Is Our Fragile Water System. Here’s 10 Things to Reign In Overtourism and Overdevelopment that Killed the Bird March 31, 2023
• Streets for People / New “Locals” Multi-Use Paths Behind the Airport Move Closer to Reality, Maybe March 17, 2023
• Streets for People / One Year In Lama E-Scooters Are Proving to Be a Success. We Need to Make It Easier for Them to Expand March 1, 2023
• Streets for People / New Bike Lane on Bertha Street Is Half a Loaf for Bike Safety February 24, 2023
• Streets for People / Do We Need a Traffic Light at Duck Avenue and S. Roosevelt? February 9, 2023
• Streets for People / City Snags $400K Federal Safe Streets Planning Grant That May Lead To Additional Construction Dollars February 3, 2023
• Streets for People / City and FDOT Fail, Again, to Follow Key West Bike Plan. This Time On Whitehead Street January 27, 2023
• Streets for People / The Lofts Moves Forward With Less Car Parking and More Bike Racks January 20, 2023
• Streets for People / Three Crashes = 3 Bicycle Rider Deaths Leads 2022’s Top 10 Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Stories December 16, 2022
• Streets for People / Key West Transit’s New On-Demand Service Is Off and Running. Now the City Needs to Put Real Marketing Money Into It December 9, 2022
• Streets for People / Key West Transit’s Uber-Like On-Demand “Key West Rides” Service Begins November 30 November 18, 2022
• Streets for People / Two Fatal Bike Crashes This Week Are Two Too Many. Here’s 10 Things to Make Bicycling Safer November 12, 2022
• Streets for People / City to Begin Work On Making It Easy to Bike to Lower Keys Shuttle and Enhancing Bus Stops from Marathon to Key West November 4, 2022
• Streets for People / Progress on Five Historic District Projects Means More Life, Locals, Prosperity, and Resiliency for Our Downtown  October 21, 2022
• Streets for People / Improving Lazy Way As a Great “Shared Street” Can Set the Stage for More of the Same Around Our Historic Downtown October 14, 2022
• Streets for People / Ian’s Lesson: Key West Infrastructure Needs to Be as Resilient as Its People October 7, 2022
• Streets for People / The Mayor’s Strategic Plan is Helping the City Bureaucracy Get Stuff Done September 16, 2022
• Streets for People / Wreckers Cay and County Need to Do Better By New Residents Who Want to Ride Bikes Between Stock Island and Key West September 2, 2022
• Streets for People / Staff Takes Bull By Horns and Upgrades Embarrassing Duval Loop Bus Stop Signs August 20, 2022
• Streets for People / Key West Mayoral and District IV Candidates in Their Own Words on Bike, Walk and Transit Issues August 5, 2022
• Streets for People / Freebee On-Demand Ride-Hailing-to-Transit Might Provide Stock Island Residents With Reason to Leave Their Cars at Home  July 22, 2022
• Streets for People / Construction on First and Bertha Streets Doesn’t Follow the Bike Plan. Is It Too Late? July 8, 2022
• Streets for People / PeopleforBikes’ 2022 City Ratings Ranks Key West 15th in North America. What Can We Achieve If We Really Try? Our Mayor Says: #1 July 1, 2022
• City’s Uber-Like On-Demand Transit Service is Back On Track June 24, 2022
• Streets for People / 10 Things to Make It Safer to Bike from the 667 New Housing Units on Stock Island to Key West June 17, 2022
• Streets for People / Duval Loop Ridership is Plummeting. Save the Duval Loop! June 3, 2022
• Streets for People / Traffic Nightmare Looms as 132 New Housing Units Added to Over 700 In the Pipeline on Stock Island and Lower Keys  May 20, 2022
• Streets for People / The Sorry State of Key West Bus Stops Revisited – What’s Happening a Year Later May 6, 2022
• Streets for People / Ten Ways to Make Car-Free Key West a Reality for Visitors – Part 2: Services, Infrastructure and Policies April 15, 2022
• Streets for People / Ten Ways to Make Car-Free Key West a Reality for Visitors – Part 1: Marketing April 8, 2022
• Streets for People / Just Passed ‘Greener, Cleaner Transport Act’ Says City Vehicles to Be Electric By 2030, Adds Measures to Improve Transit, Biking and Parking  April 1, 2022
• Streets for People / Key West Ruins Everything March 25, 2022
• Streets for People / Innovative Lama E-Scooter Share Comes to Key West March 18, 2022
• Streets for People / Stock Island and Lower Keys Workforce Housing Needs Frequent Transit  March 11, 2022
• Streets for People / We Can Adapt and Save the Florida Keys from Rising Seas March 4, 2022
• Streets for People / Will a Deal On Cruise Ships Finally Lead to Closing the Gap at Admiral’s Cut? February 25, 2022
• Streets for People / City’s On-Demand Transit Service Is Delayed Again. It’s 10-Year Plan is Scrapped Too February 18, 2022
• Streets for People / Airport’s Need for Additional City Land Could Help Spur Salt Ponds and Smathers Beach “Locals” Bike Trails February 11, 2022
• Streets for People / Too Much Surface Parking at The Lofts Is a Wasteful Use of Valuable Downtown Land February 4, 2022
• Streets for People / Here’s the Real Lowdown on the Do’s and Don’ts for E-Bikes and E-Scooters in Key West January 28, 2022
• Streets for People / Time to Reimagine Car-Centric, Mainland Style Searstown and Kmart into Island-Friendly Centers with Housing January 21, 2022
• Streets for People / Mallory Sq., Diesel Plant, Duval Street and Bahama Village Housing Projects Create Synergy to Bolster Downtown January 14, 2022
• Streets for People / 3 Reasons You May Not Have Thought of for Voting YES on 3.2 on January 18 January 7, 2022
• Streets for People / Countdown of 2021’s Most Important Bike, Walk and Transit Stories – Is Our Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Part 2: The Case for a Glass Half Full Year  December 17, 2021
• Streets for People / Countdown of 2021’s Most Important Bike, Walk and Transit Stories – Is Our Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Part 1: The Case for a Glass Half Empty Year  December 10, 2021
• Streets for People / Countdown of the 10 Most Important Bike, Walk and Transit Stories of 2019 and 2020 Revisited December 3, 2021
• Streets for People / Counting Down the Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2021 November 26, 2021
• Streets for People / Prominent Locals Say We’ve Got a Lot to Be Thankful for When It Comes to Biking and Walking in Key West November 19, 2021
• Streets for People / City Fails, Again, to Make South Roosevelt Boulevard and Promenade Safer for Bikes, Pedestrians and Vehicles November 12, 2021
• Streets for People / It’s Time to Eliminate Free On-Street Parking for Visitors Downtown November 5, 2021
• Streets for People / It’s Official – Uber-Like On-Demand Transit Coming to Key West in December October 29, 2021
• Streets for People / D.C. Baseball, Key West, Tattoos and the World Series October 22, 2021
• Streets for People / Meet Local Ryan Stachurski – The City’s New “Bike Guy” October 8, 2021
• Streets for People / Duval Street Revitalization Back on Track October 1, 2021
• Streets for People / Airport Expansion Means Fewer Cars on Our Island  September 24, 2021
• Streets for People / Reimagining Key West – 10 Goals for a Better Future and 10 Actions to Get There September 17, 2021
• Serious Bikeshare in the U.S.A. is 11 Years Old. Its Success Shows Cities Can Do Innovative Work September 10, 2021
• Streets for People / Can We Save Key West Transit from a Death Spiral? September 3, 2021
• Streets for People / We Need to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Bicycle Parking Downtown August 27, 2021
• Streets for People / City to Make It Easier to Bike to the Lower Keys Shuttle Bus August 20, 2021
• Streets for People / It’s Time to Put an Hourly Limit on the Free On-Street Parking Spaces and Institute a Zone System for Residential Parking Permits Downtown August 13, 2021
• Streets for People / We Need to Encourage Efforts Like the Proposed Lama Electric Scooter August 6, 2021
• Streets for People / Uber-Like Transit Coming to Key West? July 30, 2021
• Streets for People / Our Top 7 Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Articles of 2021 July 24, 2021
• Streets for People / With the Duval Street Revitalization Plan Way Behind Schedule, Here’s 3 Quick Wins for Pedestrianizing Duval Street Now July 16, 2021
• Streets for People / Limiting Large Cruise Ships Gives Us an Opportunity to Make Duval Street & Historic Downtown More Local Focused, Again July 9, 2021
• Streets for People / Mayor Bravely Puts Onus on Commission to Do Heavy Lifting on Better Bike, Walk and Transit. Will They Come Through? July 2, 2021
• Streets for People / Monorail, Monorail, Monorail or Just Say No to Privatizing Key West Parking June 25, 2021
• Streets for People / New City Manager Will Be Good for Bike, Walk, Transit and for Key West June 18, 2021
• Streets for People / PeopleForBikes Ranks Key West 39th Best City for Bicycling June 11, 2021
• Streets for People / First and Bertha Streets Corridor Road Improvements Are Another Missed Opportunity to Make Bicycling Safer and Easier June 4, 2021
• Streets for People / Want Sidewalk Cafés and Other Amenities? We Need to Take Some Space from Cars May 28, 2021
• Streets for People / In Quest to Improve Crosstown Greenway, City Prepares to Construct New Bike Trail Segment May 21, 2021
• Streets for People / How Better Transit and Bicycle Facilities Can Help Address Affordable Housing May 14, 2021
• Streets for People / City Commission Tries to Have Its Cake and Eat It Too on S. Roosevelt Blvd. – Perhaps Dooming a Safer Project May 7, 2021
• Streets for People / What’s Old is New Again – Two New Bike Trails Take Us Back in Time to a Simpler Key West April 30, 2021
• Streets for People / Do Key West Commercial Areas Need Business Improvement Districts (BIDS)? – Part 2: What BIDS in Key West Might Look Like April 23, 2021
• Streets for People / Do Key West Commercial Areas Need Business Improvement Districts (BIDS)? – Part 1: What’s A BID? April 16, 2021
• Streets for People / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – A Dozen Marketing Things KW Transit Can Do to Increase Ridership April 9, 2021
• Streets for People / The Sorry State of Key West Bus Stops – We Just Don’t Care April 2, 2021
• Streets for People / It’s Time to Reconsider a Road Diet on S. Roosevelt and Make the Promenade and Road Safer March 26, 2021
• Streets for People / Getting the Parking Right Leads to Streets for People – Part 2: Battling Our Inner George Costanza – Ten Things We Can Do in Downtown Key West to Get the Parking Right March 19, 2021
• Streets for People / Getting the Parking Right Leads to Streets for People – Part 1: Nobody Goes there Anymore. It’s Too Crowded – Six Reasons for Right Pricing Parking March 12, 2021
• Streets for People / Eight Things We Can Do to Pedestrianize Duval and Still Allow Cars March 6, 2021
• Streets for People / How We Get Wider Sidewalks Downtown Without Ripping Up the Streets – Parklets February 26, 2021
• Streets for People / The Wee Donkey, Whataboutism, Bathwater and Duval Street’s Future February 19, 2021
• Streets for People / Averting E-Bike Mayhem and Making Key West Sidewalks Safer February 13, 2021
• Streets for People / Sustainability Board Wants to Make Free, Frequent and Simple Key West Transit a Reality February 6, 2021
• Streets for People / Volunteers and a Little Green Paint Show How We Can Make It Safer to Bike February 1, 2021
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #1: Cruise Ship Referenda Passing Makes Duval Street & Downtown’s Future Better January 3, 2021
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #2. Teri Johnston’s Re-Election Moves Our Issues Forward January 2, 2021
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #3: Crosstown Greenway Shows Path Forward for Bikes January 1, 2021
• Key West, Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #4: Duval Street Revitalization Project Brings Hope to Downtown December 28, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #5: Duval and Simonton Rebuilt and Repaved. But… December 27, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories of 2020 – #6: Key West Transit Abandons Old Meandering Routes. But… December 26, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #7 Covid Recovery Plan Focuses on Downtown and Business December 25, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #8: Some Progress on E-Bikes and Scooters Ordinance December 22, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #9: FREE Fare on Duval Loop for Visitors is Back! December 21, 2020
• Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 – #10: The Cow Key Bridge Carmageddon That Wasn’t December 20, 2020
• Welcome to the Key West Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Top 10 Stories for 2020 December 19, 2020
• Recap of Friends of Car-Free Key West Top Stories of 2019 December 18, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #1: Adopting a Key West Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan December 17, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #2: City Adopts Ambitious 10-Year Key West Transit Plan December 16, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #3: New Duval Pocket Park for People Replaces Parking Lot for Cars December 15, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #4: Mall On Duval December 14, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #5: “HAWK” Signals Installed at Five N. Roosevelt Crosswalks December 13, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #6: City Implements Progressive Parking Strategies December 12, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #7: Starting the Crosstown Greenway Project December 11, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #8: Duval Street Revitalization Help Sought Via RFQ December 10, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #9: City Rebuilds Atlantic Boulevard Bike Path December 9, 2020
• 2019 Top 10 – #10: City Addresses Closing the Gap at Admiral’s Cut December 8, 2020
• Recapping 2019’s Top 10 Stories Before We Count Down 2020’s Top 10 December 7, 2020
• Key West Releases 17-Point Covid Recovery Plan October 21, 2020
• Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People Need New Talent on City Commission – That’s Why We’re Voting for Dr. Ryan Barnett in District 6 September 29, 2020
• Capital Bikeshare is 10 Years Old. Its Success Hinged on Pioneers Working Together. September 13, 2020
• We Need Key West Transit To Communicate Their Path Forward August 19, 2020
• Key West Transit Takes Step Towards Future With August Public Hearings July 30, 2020
• Grading the Candidates on Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People: Mayor’s Race July 24, 2020
• Grading the Candidates on Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People: District 3 July 22, 2020
• Grading the Candidates on Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People: District 6 July 21, 2020
• Grading the Candidates on Bike, Walk, Transit and Streets for People July 20, 2020
• New 91-Space Parking Lot at 1300 Duval is Missed Opportunity for Downtown Affordable Housing and Revitalizing Our Main Street July 11, 2020
• Duval Street – We See the Future and it Could Start Now June 24, 2020
• A Critic’s Thoughts on Car-Free Key West June 21, 2020
• Key West #115 in Best Cities for Bikes List June 10, 2020
• Duval Street Revitalization Moves Forward June 10, 2020
• Does Duval Street/Downtown Need a Business Improvement District? June 4, 2020
• Can We Pedestrianize Duval and Still Allow Vehicles? May 28, 2020
• Is Staples Bike Bridge Safe? May 25, 2020
• Shhhhh… Key West Transit Has Quietly Changed Their Routes May 20, 2020
• Key West, Let’s Radically Speed Up the Implementation of Our Bike/Ped Plan May 20, 2020
• The City Raised Bus Fares. Time to Tackle Parking May 12, 2020
• Reimagining Key West Transit May 10, 2020
• City of Key West – Let Our Restaurants Take the Streets! May 6, 2020
• COMMISSION: NO MORE FREE RIDE FOR YOU May 5, 2020
• It’s Too Early! With Gwen Filosa – 5/4/20 May 4, 2020
• Keep Duval Loop FREE For Visitors April 30, 2020
• Letter to the Editor – Key West Citizen 4/30/20 April 30, 2020
• 20 Parklets on Duval in 2020 April 28, 2020
• Reimagining Key West – 3 Quick Wins for Revitalizing Duval Street April 24, 2020
• Reimagining Key West – 10 Things We Should Strive For and 10 Ways To Get There April 22, 2020
• 89 Great Streets in the U.S.A. April 17, 2020
• Capital Bikeshare Launches April 15, 2020
• ELGL’s 2017 Traeger Award Winners April 2, 2020
• Podcast: Car-Free Planning in DC & Key West April 2, 2020
• It’s Too Early! March 31, 2020
• BikeSwell documentary March 27, 2020
• YouTube March 26, 2020