{"id":308437,"date":"2026-06-15T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308437\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:03:07","slug":"lee-county-overpasses-at-summerlin-and-gladiolus-getting-129k-makeover-wink-listens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/308437\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County overpasses at Summerlin and Gladiolus getting $129K makeover | WINK Listens"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A Lee County<\/a> man says roads near his home are in need of a little TLC.<\/p>\n

Vincent O’Connor regularly drives the overpasses in south Fort Myers. The county opened left-turn flyovers at Gladiolus and Summerlin 20 years ago, but lately, Vincent says, they’re showing their age.<\/p>\n

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“Those overpasses are becoming ugly because nobody is paying attention to the paint,” O’Connor said.<\/p>\n

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He pointed out black marks covering the structures. He also noticed weeds growing out of the side of one overpass that had grown thick and tall, almost becoming a tree.<\/p>\n

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“So, I would like to see the county put some kind of a maintenance thing in place, so that these don’t become eyesores,” O’Connor said.<\/p>\n

WINK News reached out to Lee County to check the maintenance schedule and learned Vincent won’t have to wait long. In October, the county commission allocated more than $129,000 for cleaning, painting and repairs on the bridges at Summerlin and Gladiolus.<\/p>\n

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The project is about to go out to bid. It won’t be long before Vincent’s commute is looking good as new.<\/p>\n

Lee County’s bridges are inspected annually, and county staff says maintenance is done as needed. If you see a road with potholes, missing signs or in need of minor repairs, you can make a request for action through https:\/\/www.leegov.com\/dot\/requestforaction<\/a>, and Lee DOT will take care of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A Lee County man says roads near his home are in need of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,897,356,65912],"class_list":["post-308437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers","tag-lee-county","tag-summerlin-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308437","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=308437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}