Transportation officials need 1,000 responses by Friday to support plans for widening the Cape Coral Bridge. The upgrade will add a third lane each way between Cape Coral Parkway and College Parkway in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n
Officials want input from toll bridge users to back a key traffic analysis. This data will support funding for the upcoming work.<\/p>\n
“Right now we’re just going through the process that we have to go through to identify the funding, and we don’t know any answer as to whether or not there’s going to be an increase,” said Robert Price, director of the Lee County Department of Transportation, according to Gulf Coast News<\/a>.<\/p>\n Traffic jams plague the bridge during peak hours. Fort Myers local Jeff Balyeat shared his experience: “I’ll go over there, like this time of day when it’s like 8 in the morning, and trying to come back can be slightly congested.”<\/p>\n This marks the county’s most ambitious road project yet. Pending approval, work is set to\u00a0kick off in 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transportation officials need 1,000 responses by Friday to support plans for widening the Cape Coral Bridge. The upgrade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-14283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}