Residents on Southwest Twelfth Avenue say their once-quiet street has turned into a daily hazard. Speeding cars and delivery trucks barrel through the neighborhood, leaving families worried for their safety.<\/p>\n
Fred Laier, Jackie Nolen, and Liz Mathes have lived on the street for 15 to 20 years. They say traffic has gotten worse over time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we moved in here, it was a residential street. It\u2019s really not a residential street any longer,\u201d said Jackie Nolen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey hit the corner here doing 50 miles an hour,\u201d Fred Laier added. \u201cThen it\u2019s a race between the kids. They hit the top of the bridge \u2014 I\u2019m talking 80 miles an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe traffic on this road is just horrible,\u201d said Liz Mathes.<\/p>\n
Residents say they\u2019ve contacted Cape Coral Police multiple times, but enforcement has been limited.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll put a car there for 10 or 15 minutes,\u201d Nolen said. \u201cIf they don\u2019t see anything, they leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neighbors hope small changes could help, like a speed bump or a stop sign at the dangerous corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cA speed bump would be great. That would make people stop. But especially up there, I truly think we need a stop sign so people can at least slow down coming around the corner,\u201d Mathes said.<\/p>\n
Cape Coral Police say they take these concerns seriously, patrol the area regularly, and expect trucks to follow posted routes and speed limits. FDOT confirms this is a local road, meaning the city is responsible for safety improvements. Police encourage residents to report specific incidents to TrafficComplaints@capecoral.gov<\/a> so further action can be considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents on Southwest Twelfth Avenue say their once-quiet street has turned into a daily hazard. Speeding cars and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,212,28],"class_list":["post-79923","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-cape-coral-police","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79923","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=79923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}