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Alachua County will meet Nov. 12 to approve a bid and construction plans to improve the stretch of road between Northwest 57 Terrace to the Northwest 13th Street. County Transportation Engineering Manager Brian Singleton said the project began conceptually years before a 2011 approval.

Florida is one of the most dangerous hit-and-run states, but new legislation would increase penalties.

A trail for pedestrians and cyclists at the University of Florida that will connect to the bicycle trail at Archer Road is set to be put in near the end of 2014.

The trial period is meant to see how the lane changes will affect traffic flow and safety. The city is monitoring driver, cyclist and pedestrian activity and will examine results once the trial concludes in late November.

Some Northwest 8th Avenue changes planned for Sunday.

City officials and local residents spoke out about Gainesville's transportation problems at a five-hour transportation summit on Wednesday.

In its Dec. 11 meeting, the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners will take its final vote on the Archer Braid Trial. The board is being asked to reconsider a 2.2-mile trail portion that was rejected in September. The meeting will be open to the public.

The Public Works Department discussed changes to NW 8th Ave. at a meeting in the A. Quinn Jones Center Tuesday night. The department is suggesting reducing the current four lane road to two lanes due to pedestrians and bicyclists in the area.

A vote on whether or not a bike trail should run through Haile Plantation ended in a tie at a Tuesday meeting of Alachua County Board of County Commissioners.

Nearly five years ago Mark Stephan from suffered a horrific spinal cord injury in a bicycle accident in Chicago.  Though he was told he would be a quadriplegic and never walk again, the determined athlete went into six months of intensive therapy with personal trainers.  The grueling work culminated in his most recent …