Educate

Crashes involving drivers striking people walking across the street are preventable. Driver and pedestrian education is critical to saving lives and being safe on the streets. Best Foot Forward focuses on grassroots efforts and works to educate all roadway users about their rights and responsibilities in pedestrian safety.

To promote education, Best Foot Forward brings its message to the forefront via presentations to neighborhood safety organizations, community workshops, and events. The coalition leverages traditional and nontraditional media to promote a pedestrian-forward dialogue and build a community of advocates.

Everything Best Foot Forward does on a daily basis – from pitching media stories and writing newsletters or articles to giving speeches and organizing Best Foot Forward events – is all part of a multi-platform, mass campaign to educate the public and invite change. Without education, high-visibility enforcement is significantly less impactful.

Community Outreach

Best Foot Forward’s educational initiatives include:


  • Attending community events, where the Outreach Team provides information and materials about pedestrian safety
  • Proactively seeking out opportunities for presentations to neighborhood and homeowners’ associations, apartment or condo, or other groups
  • Partnering with local public and private schools for events and presentations to educate the next generation on the importance of pedestrian safety
Interactive regional trail map

Media Promotion

Best Foot Forward’s educational initiatives include:


  • Working with traditional media, including TV, newspapers, community publications, and websites, to promote awareness of pedestrian safety and Florida’s driver yield law
  • Promoting Best Foot Forward’s message via non-traditional media, including social media (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr) and this website
Interactive regional trail map

Florida's Driver Yield Law

Florida Law requires drivers to yield or stop for pedestrians in crosswalks - including all marked crosswalks and unmarked crosswalks at intersections.

In conversation, many drivers say they didn’t know that was the law. Click here for more in-depth information on Florida's driver yield laws (see F.S. 316.130(7)a, b, and c).

Interested in Bringing Best Foot Forward Education to Your Community?

If you’re looking to raise awareness about crosswalk safety or explore education-focused strategies in your community, we’d love to hear from you and share more about how Best Foot Forward works.

Engineer

Using data to inform safer crossing design and visibility.

Enforce

Supporting visible, education-focused traffic safety efforts.

Evaluate

Measuring driver behavior and tracking progress over time.