The Lee County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is looking into ways to make our streets safer. A study through Stantec Consulting for the county found there are more than 120 roadway deaths and 600 injury crashes per year in Lee County, and it’s not just cars involved in these crashes.
“I mean, it’s a beautiful place to be, right? Everybody’s outside, you gotta watch out,” said Frank Domiga, Stantec Consulting.
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Lee County MPO is looking at ways to make our roads safer with a federal grant
Domingo says a federal grant is helping them identify issue areas. In Cape Coral, one street that showed up in red on their map was Pine Island Road. Click to see the dashboard.
“At a minimum, there should be maybe a flashing amber left arrow. Those have been shown to reduce crashes up by about 20% which is pretty good,” said Domingo…