SANIBEL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Drivers heading to Sanibel Island are in for some changes on the road this week. Starting Monday, Lee County DOT crews will begin bridge deck repairs on Span B of the Sanibel Causeway.<\/p>\n
From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., westbound traffic will shift around the work area.<\/p>\n
The repairs are expected to run through Thursday, weather permitting. But the causeway is not the only stretch of road getting attention on the island.<\/p>\n
Periwinkle Way, a busy stretch once drivers make it onto the island, has been drawing concern over congestion, and the city is still discussing whether to add a roundabout in the area.<\/p>\n
WINK News traffic anchor Mariaregina Mendoza spoke with beachgoers about the idea. “I will tell you, after being down here for five years, that is a heavy, concentrated area.<\/p>\n
Usually, they have a human being there directing traffic, and a roundabout would just speed everything up,” said Jeff Gaurdy, a local.<\/p>\n
Scott Brinkman, another local, shared a similar take. “I’m from the Midwest, and we don’t have a lot of them, so I’m kind of figuring out how they work. But I do see in certain circumstances where they work, I think in this specific case, it would probably ease the congestion,” Brinkman said.<\/p>\n
WINK News reached out to the city of Sanibel for more details on the bridge repairs and is still waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANIBEL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Drivers heading to Sanibel Island are in for some changes on the road this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,48221],"class_list":["post-379258","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-sanibel-causeway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379258","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=379258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}