Roads

Hurricane Helene's rain caused significant flooding across southwest Florida Thursday.WGCU will update this list of road closures using communication and social media posts from local municipalities.

Part of McGregor Boulevard by the Edison & Ford Winter Estates will be closed starting Monday for a 10 to 12-week project that will entail removing part of the road and replacing it with paving bricks.

Lee County’s contractor, OHLA USA, begins work this month to widen Ortiz Avenue from Colonial Boulevard to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The project will widen the roadway from two lanes to four travel lanes and include a 6-foot sidewalk on the east side of the road and a 10-foot paved trail on the west side of the road.

To deal with growing traffic demand on local infrastructure, a new kind of interchange is coming to the intersection of I-75 and Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers.The diverging diamond interchange will replace the current intersection, which is organized with traditional cross-traffic left-turn lanes using traffic lights.

Local Moving Florida Forward program project timelines were released during a media briefing by Lt. Governor Jeanette Nunez in Fort Myers on Monday. The projects entail more than $700 million in investments for Lee and Collier counties, including expected construction timelines for: I-75 at Pine Ridge Road, I-75 from Golden Gate Parkway to Corkscrew Road, State Road 29 from County Road 846 East to New Market Road, and State Road 29 from New Market Road to State Road 82.

A new law is paving the way for radioactive roads in Florida. But environmentalists say it would affect road construction workers, harm plant and wildlife, and potentially kill precious Florida springs.

The Florida Department of Transportation will host in-person and virtual public meetings June 22 and 29 for the SR 78 (Pine Island Road) Proposed Corridor Vision Plan in Lee County.

Florida ranks the second deadliest state for pedestrians, according to a 2022 report by the National Complete Streets Coalition, a part of Smart Growth America. Throughout 2022 in Lee County, there were 319 crashes in Lee County involving bicyclists, an increase from 2021 where there were 256. Nine crashes resulted in fatalities.

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