Cape Coral city leaders are pushing for immediate action to address safety concerns on Burnt Store Road. Just last week, a deadly crash claimed the lives of three people on a two-lane section of this road.<\/p>\n
“It’s a county road the county should be paying for it,” said the Cape Coral mayor.<\/p>\n
City officials argue that the final five miles of Burnt Store Road, still only two lanes, pose a significant safety risk.<\/p>\n
“It should have been done years and years ago. It’s, it’s a safety issue, more than anything else, and an evacuation issue,” said David Hulsey, a longtime Cape Coral resident.<\/p>\n
Hulsey, who knew one of the victims from last week’s crash, highlighted the personal impact of these accidents. He mentioned the victim was known for organizing a local car show.<\/p>\n
“The gentleman that was that was killed in the in the car wreck. He is, if you’ve ever been to Merchants Crossing on a Monday. He’s the person that put on that car show,” said Hulsey.<\/p>\n
Hulsey has witnessed Cape Coral’s growth and believes Burnt Store Road is not equipped to handle it.<\/p>\n
“No. That whole part of Cape Coral is growing. It hasn’t been built out yet. It’s just going to get worse,” Hulsey said.<\/p>\n
Despite the road’s location in Cape Coral, city leaders insist it’s a county responsibility.<\/p>\n
“It’s a county road, it’s a county project. It should be paid for through county funds,” said another city official.<\/p>\n
Hulsey contends that widening the road to four lanes would improve safety significantly.<\/p>\n
“They need to fix it. And they needed to fix it five years ago, not 10 years from now,” said Hulsey.<\/p>\n
Burnt Store Road represents more than just a traffic issue for Cape Coral; it is a test of patience for residents awaiting safer roads. Both county and city managers plan to meet to discuss potential solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral city leaders are pushing for immediate action to address safety concerns on Burnt Store Road. Just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,19411,210,8605,15537,15005,7561,28,19409,19410],"class_list":["post-25689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-mayor","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-car-show","tag-car-wreck","tag-city-official","tag-coral","tag-florida","tag-local-car-show","tag-wink-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689","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=25689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}