Mark H. Bickel | Naples Daily News
Now that summer is upon us and the end of another busy tourist and snowbird season is in the rear view mirror, the memories of the months of horrible traffic we had to endure from Marco Island to Cape Coral usually start to fade right about now.
We come home from the grocery store or work and tend to say: “It’s really not that bad out there!”
But the clock to the start of next season is already ticking.
Which brings us to the Collier County MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization) Board Meeting that took place June 13. If nothing else, the meeting was a reminder that significant efforts are underway to create long-term fixes for the traffic stress Southwest Florida is experiencing.
But the meeting was important in many other ways in terms of getting a better understanding and more details about the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) historic project that will widen I-75 − to as many as 10 lanes in some places − from the Golden Gate Parkway interchange in Collier County to the Corkscrew Road interchange in Lee County.