gofundme.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nOne of her friends, a freshman at Oasis High School, spoke during Cape Coral City Council\u2019s citizens input last Wednesday to ask for possible short- and long-term solutions \u2013 as a voice for her friend.<\/p>\n
A long-term solution she proposed is a pedestrian bridge at Santa Barbara Boulevard and Veterans Parkway, and the short-term solution of having some sort of gate that opens and closes preventing someone to cross the road at the wrong time.<\/p>\n
City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn said the student who spoke during citizen\u2019s input emailed him the night prior.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the opportunity to speak with several of my staff members, and Lee County Department of Transportation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ilczyszyn said he has been advised by the county that there is no audible ADA device at that intersection \u2013 the signal that loudly projects wait.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are going to be exploring adding that to the intersection,\u201d he said, as it is in close proximity to Cape Coral High School and a lot of children use it. \u201cThere is some possible movement there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ilczyszyn said he is also putting the student in contact with one of their traffic engineers that might be able to assist her with looking at the Florida Greenbook Design Standards to accommodate some type of physical device that is acceptable.<\/p>\n
\u201cAllow her to explore that as an option,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mayor John Gunter said it is something they definitely have to get Lee County involved with because it is a county roadway and intersection. He said any improvements or modifications to the roadway must be made by though the Lee County Board of County Commissioners.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do need to come up with a solution for these different types of transportation,\u201d Councilmember Jennifer Nelson-Lastra said of e-bikes, and e-scooters as they are new.<\/p>\n
Councilmember Bill Steinke said there are safety options out there that are very costly \u2013 although the cost of a life \u2013 what price.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had lunch today with a transportation safety company along with our city manager and with our director of transportation,\u201d he said during the Wednesday meeting, as they deal with public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GoFundMe page is continuing for a Cape Coral teen who was struck by a truck on her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-217492","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\/217492","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=217492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}