The State Road 31 bridge closed again Monday morning, creating traffic delays for East Lee County drivers just one week after a similar emergency closure caught commuters off guard.
FOX 4’s Bella Line spoke with an FDOT spokesperson about the closure confusion:
State Road 31 bridge closes again without warning, leaving East Lee County drivers stuck in traffic
The Florida Department of Transportation said crews discovered an issue with the grating of the 65-year-old bridge last week, prompting the sudden closure. Like the previous incident, FDOT did not notify the public about the closure until after the bridge was already shut down.
“As soon as maintenance crews hear or know of a situation to where it’s an emergency, they just react, right? And so, then it takes some time to communicate that to our office, and then we, in turn, can communicate it to the media as well as the public,” said Janella Newsome, FDOT spokesperson…