The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will begin repairs to the Longboat Key Pass Bridge on State Road 789 from north of Northshore Road on Longboat Key to south Coquina Park in Bradenton Beach. The work is set to begin this week and continue through April 30, 2012. The construction will be ongoing throughout the [...]
According to Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Assistant District Traffic Operations Engineer R. Keith Slater, the plan to remove certain road signs should be finished by the middle of next week. The signs yet to be removed are: • In Sarasota County, there is one ‘Right Lane Yields to Bikes’ sign and one ‘Bike Lane’ sign [...]
Congressman Vern Buchanan is hosting a town hall-style meeting on transportation with Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad. Buchanan and Prasad will discuss the region’s transportation needs with elected officials and community leaders during the event. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, June 17 in the Dan McClure Auditorium, 5900 Airport [...]
The Florida Department of Transportation has reached a decision on the best time to perform the necessary repairs to the Siesta Key North Bridge project. The project will begin June 5, 2012, and will be constructed by closing one lane of traffic on the bridge for 120 calendar days from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m., [...]
Beginning Saturday, March 12, the Longboat Key Trolley service will change its schedule from a bus every half hour to one every hour. The hours the trolley will operate are from 5:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. The service has operated on half-hour intervals until now, and funding was thanks to a Florida Department of Transportation grant. But that grant expired last summer, and Manatee County, Sarasota County and Longboat Key governments worked together to find funding for the service last fall
Last week’s Town Commission decision to move forward with bike sign removal on Longboat Key has caused yet more reaction from the public, including one bicycle advocate who advised the Planning and Zoning Board’s sign subcommittee on the topic
Following a tense and emotional hearing over the idea of reducing bike signs on Gulf of Mexico Drive, the Town Commission decided to take the recommendation of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and will reduce the number of bicycle signs to one every mile in each direction, with additional signs at so-called dangerous ‘hot spots.’ The policy discussion
After eight years of toil and trouble, Tallahassee last year enacted a law authorizing local governments to install cameras at traffic lights and other strategic locations. Promoted as a safety effort, as well as a revenue raiser, more than 50 municipalities have taken advantage of the legislation and placed cameras in various spots to monitor traffic
The potential removal of approximately 40 percent of Longboat Key’s bicycle signs as proposed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has continued to generate controversy following Tuesday’s subcommittee meeting
Bicycles and signs are big news in Sarasota and Longboat Key as of late. According to a Feb. 3 Sarasota Herald-Tribune headline, “Bicycle accidents bolster area’s ‘dangerous’ reputation.” The story that followed listed four bicyclists in Southwest Florida who have died or been critically injured in accidents with cars just over the past week. It should not surprise anyone; statistics have shown for some time that Florida is one of the most dangerous places in America to ride a bike
