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Streets for People / Is It Really Too Late For Bike Lanes on S. Roosevelt Boulevard?

By Chris Hamilton. Story is cross posted at KONK Life on August 4, 2023. Support ($) our local journalism here. Follow us at  Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook and Twitter. Since FDOT first held public hearings in 2016 on rebuilding S. Roosevelt Boulevard between Bertha Street and the end of Smathers Beach to address sea level […]

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Hunting for Parking: Making the Case to End Free Parking for Visitors In Downtown Key West

By Chris Hamilton. Story is cross posted at KONK Life on July 21, 2023. Support ($) our local journalism here. Follow us at  Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook and Twitter. Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet. I’m hunting for a parking space. But for the first time in a few years, lo and behold there seem to […]

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Streets for People / PeopleforBikes Says Key West Is a “Great” Bicycling City and Ranks It #17 in U.S.A.

By Chris Hamilton. Story is cross posted at KONK Life on June 29, 2023. Support ($) our local journalism here. Follow us at  Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook and Twitter. For the seventh year in a row, on June 27 PeopleForBikes, the U.S. bicycling industry’s trade association and a national advocacy nonprofit, released its 2023 City […]

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Streets for People / New Staples Avenue Bike/Ped Bridge Coming This Fall

By Chris Hamilton. Story is cross posted at KONK Life on June 23, 2023. Support ($) our local journalism here. Follow us at  Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook and Twitter. As the Salt Run Channel and extension of the Riviera canal crosses the middle of the island in New Town, it leaves only three places cars […]

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New Garden View Apartments Residents Being Provided Bus and Bike Incentives to Go Car-Free

By Chris Hamilton. Story is cross posted at KONK Life on June 16, 2023. Support ($) our local journalism here. Follow us at  Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook and Twitter. Tenants are just starting to move into the 103 units at the Key West Housing Authority’s new Garden View Apartments at 5220 College Road. That’ great […]

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City Wants Your Help In Locating New Bike Parking

By Chris Hamilton. Story is cross posted at KONK Life on June 2, 2023. Support ($) our local journalism here. Follow us at  Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook and Twitter. If you follow the City’s official government and Car-Free Key West Facebook pages, you may have noticed a pattern over the last few […]

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Streets for People / Helping Islanders Go Car-Free Or Car-Lite Can Help With Our Affordable Housing Crisis

By Chris Hamilton. This story is cross posted in KONK Life  on May 18, 2023. Follow us at Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook, Twitter and check out all our Streets for People stories here. A couple weeks ago the Washington Post reported that as of March, higher interest rates and pricier models put the average cost […]

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Brand New Bike Lanes Coming to United and South Streets

By Chris Hamilton. This story is cross posted in KONK Life newspaper on May 5, 2023. Follow us at Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook, Twitter and check out all our Streets for People stories here. Now that the utility work is complete, construction starts in the coming weeks on a $4.8 million investment in a new, improved […]

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Streets for People / New “Workforce Express” Key West Transit Service Begins May 15 Between Stock Island and Bahama Village

By Chris Hamilton. This story is cross posted in KONK Life newspaper on May 3 2023. Follow us at Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook, Twitter and check out all our Streets for People stories here. Note: Since we published this story the City pushed back the debut of these changes to June 5. Key West Transit begins […]

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Streets for People / County Officials Reserved On-Street Parking Stands In Way of Completing Southard Street Bike Lane

By Chris Hamilton. This story is cross posted in KONK Life newspaper on April 21 2023. Follow us at Friends of Car-Free Key West & Duval Street/Historic Downtown on Facebook, Twitter and check out all our Streets for People stories here. Southard Street has had a bike lane from White Street down to Whitehead at the Green Parrot for as long as anyone […]

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