CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A Cape Coral intersection is getting a much-needed upgrade. Crews will be working to install a traffic light at the intersection of Del Prado Boulevard and De Navarra Parkway. Work begins today but isn’t expected to be complete until early 2024.
People living and working near the intersection describe it as chaotic and a nightmare. That is…before the city installed polls to guide traffic.
“Everybody was going every which way; there was no regulation. People cutting each other off, people didn’t know whether to be on this side of the turn of that side. Like I said, total chaos,” Kevin Smith explained.
Smith and hundreds of others travel that way on a weekly basis. Everyone we spoke with mentioned seeing a large number of accidents.
“Traffic coming so fast there’s always an accident, bad accident,” Jessie Florence said.
Cape Coral Police report working more than 60 crashes at the intersection since the beginning of 2020. The concern for safety is what prompted the city to install the poles standing now, and the light coming in the future.
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City officials told NBC2 the signal is part of an agreement with a developer due to additional traffic from a new subdivision. That developer will be responsible for the financial part of the project. Though some say the developer has pushed on the fee to residents in the community.
While crews are working, the speed limit is being decreased to 35 mph.
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