Bridge deck repairs start Monday on Span B of the Sanibel Causeway, with a lane shift in the westbound direction from nine in the morning until four in the afternoon and the work running through Thursday
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Bridge deck repairs begin on Monday on Span B of the Sanibel Causeway, and drivers heading for the islands should expect a lane shift through the middle of the day.
WINK News reports that the Lee County Department of Transportation will carry out the repairs, affecting the westbound lane, and that the work is scheduled to run through 27 August, weather permitting.
A lane shift will be in place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. while crews are working. Monday is 24 August, and the end date the outlet gives falls on the Thursday.
A shift is not a closure. Traffic is moved into a different, usually narrower alignment rather than a lane being taken out of service, and the outlet reports no closure of the causeway or of either direction. Nothing has been published about conditions outside the daytime window, and the outlet does not say the eastbound direction is affected.
The restriction carries further than most road work of its size because the causeway is the only fixed link between the mainland and Sanibel and Captiva. There is no alternative route, so a daytime restriction is felt across both islands rather than by drivers who could pick another road. The nine to four window sits between the morning and evening peaks.
Span B is one of the two bridges Lee County replaced in the 2000s. The county planned the replacement of Bridges B and C in 2001, began construction in August 2004 and opened the current structures in September 2007, having made major repairs to the original 1963 bridges in 1991 and again in 1997.
The outlet's headline attributes the work to the Florida Department of Transportation, while the body of the same article names the Lee County Department of Transportation. The county is the operator of record here: it lists the Sanibel Causeway among its toll facilities alongside the Cape Coral and Midpoint bridges, and it has repaired and rebuilt these spans itself. The state department's association with this causeway is the emergency restoration after Hurricane Ian, which is a different project.
Lee County has published no notice of its own about this week's work, so the schedule rests on the outlet's reporting. How long each day's work lasts beyond the stated window, and whether the dates hold through a week of afternoon storms, is not established.
Where we read it: Bryanna Sterzenbach at WINK News. Read their story.
The document: No public filing has been released.
