Cape Coral city leaders are voting on moving ahead with a study on Wednesday, saying the city needs to do more to prepare for storm evacuations.
The city requested the study, and the findings show that major changes need to happen soon to get you of the city more efficiently.
Cape Coral is Lee County's largest city, and the biggest city between Tampa and Miami.
The study says more needs to be done to safely evacuate the more than 200,000 residents who live here.
The study looked at evacuation times, travel patterns different hurricane strengths and what evacuation events are likely to happen in Cape Coral.
One of the main concerns is bottlenecking with a lot of people taking the same route to evacuate.
As of right now, if there was a storm - it would take three days to evacuate the entire city.
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Nothing is off the table when it comes to addressing this issue.
The city will consider making changes to different evacuation routes - including widening the Midpoint Bridge, adding a Del Prado Boulevard interchange to the interstate, a combination of the two and other options.
There is no timetable for this plan as of yet.
On Wednesday, city leaders will be deciding whether or not to move forward with the recommended improvements.
If it is approved, it will move to Lee County's Metropolitan Planning Organization to immediately prioritize an additional route.
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