{"id":446344,"date":"2026-11-03T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446344\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:48:11","slug":"fort-myers-drivers-face-edison-bridge-lane-closures-nov-2-3-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446344\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers drivers face Edison Bridge lane closures Nov. 2-3 | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Drivers on Business U.S. 41 over the Edison Bridge were dealing with a double-lane closure as crews worked on maintenance.<\/p>\n

The Florida Department of Transportation<\/a> said crews were working to maintain the bridge joints, with the northbound inside lanes and shoulder closed before the work shifted to the northbound outside lanes and shoulder.<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS COVERAGE:\u00a0Lanes closed on Edison Bridge for joint maintenance work<\/a><\/p>\n

In a traffic advisory issued Monday, Nov. 2, 2026, FDOT said the outside lanes were scheduled to close at 8 p.m. and reopen by about 6 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, for bridge plate maintenance.<\/p>\n

Drivers were asked to reduce speed, allow extra travel time and use caution through the work zone. One Fort Myers Beach resident, Denise Fossesca, said a metal grate felt like a speed bump and nearly threw her off her motorcycle as she crossed the bridge.<\/p>\n

Fossesca said the crossing left her shaken. “It sent me flying off of my bike, and for somebody who’s a fairly new rider like myself, they teach you to scan the road for obstacles and look for obstructions, and it looked flat when I hit it, and when I hit it, it almost sent me flying,” Fossesca said.<\/p>\n

WINK News reached out to FDOT about what exactly happened and had not heard back. Drivers could find real-time traffic updates at FL511.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Drivers on Business U.S. 41 over the Edison Bridge were dealing with a double-lane closure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[26348,167808,209,211,210,160993,173646,52350,28,1126,897,1695,173645,55834,1691,160982,38979],"class_list":["post-446344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-bridges","tag-bridges-in-the-united-states","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cities-in-florida","tag-denise-fossesca","tag-edison-bridge","tag-florida","tag-florida-department-of-transportation","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-beach","tag-metal-grate","tag-travel-time","tag-u-s-route-41","tag-waxa","tag-wink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446344","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=446344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}