Sanibel Causeway Open by End of October: FDOT

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has directed the Florida Department of Transportation to prioritize repairs to the Sanibel Causeway.

Emergency repairs will allow residents and first responders to reach the island and begin cleanup and power restoration.

“[T]he Sanibel Causeway was affected when the land that the road was built on was washed away,” said Jared W. Perdue, Florida’s transportation secretary. “A bridge stability analysis will be performed, and repairs needed range from repairing bridge approaches to restoring the roadway across most of the causeway.”

Once recovery efforts have subsided, the state will tackle long-term repairs to the causeway, incorporating the emergency repairs into those repair plans, according to FDOT.

Watch a report on the destruction below.

Source: Florida Department of Transportation