City of Cape Coral looks at the Midpoint Bridge to improve evacuation routes [Video]

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — On September 11, Cape Coral council members will be presented with findings from a 2024 Cape Coral Evacuation Route Study by engineering company, CDM Smith.

The presentation online, says improvements such as the Del Prado Interchange, Midpoint Memorial Bridge widening, and CR 951 (Collier Boulevard) extension, would reduce overall evacuation times by 18 hours, or almost 30%.

Watch Colton’s full story here:

“WE KNOW WE ARE LIMITED”| City of Cape Coral looks at the midpoint bridge to improve evacuation routes

On Monday, council member Tom Hayden spoke with Fox 4’s Cape Coral Community Correspondent Colton Chavez about why staff will ask the Metropolitan Planning Organization and Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for a memorandum of support and expediency to program funding for these improvements.

“It will be vital for us to improve evacuation routes because we know what we went through with Ian,” said Hayden.

Below, the study shows how much …