Cape Coral bridge needs to be made more bicycle-friendly.

The Midpoint Bridge is built very well with 8 foot wide shoulders on both sides and is very bicycle friendly on both sides.

But the Cape Coral Bridge, roughly 3 miles south, is not so bicycle friendly. Bicycles absolutely can not ride on the north side of the bridge at all, neither with nor against traffic, because there is no shoulder at all; in fact, there are but 3 inches of pavement between the solid white line and the concrete Jersey barrier. And beyond the concrete Jersey barrier is a 50 foot drop into the waters of the Caloosahatchee River. On the other side of the white line is car traffic that is impossible to navigate via bicycle no matter which direction you are going, and cyclists get, at the very most, 5 inches of space from car traffic. And again, 3 feet really is not enough space for cyclists to safely ride; motor vehicles really ought to give cyclists 6 feet or more of space. There may be a shoulder on the eastern end of the westbound (north) side of the Cape Coral Bridge, but right after the toll plaza, that shoulder quickly narrows into nothing, literally shoving bicyclists right into the path of traffic whipping by at 50 miles an hour and faster. And all the cyclists can do then if they want safety is turn around and go back. And Illinoisans come down to Florida all the time, acting like they own the entire United States of America and like they want to rid the entire United States of all cyclists because Illinoisans are the worst drivers and the most selfish people in the world, and they bring their dangerous driving habits with them. Illinoisans will smash a cyclist right in the rear, send the cyclist flying a thousand feet into a curb, and keep right on going. Only the south side of the Cape Coral Bridge (which is the eastbound side) has an 8 foot wide shoulder which cyclists have to use regardless of which direction they are going because, obviously, they can not ride at all on the north side of the bridge which is the westbound side.

I know of two options on how to make the Cape Coral Bridge more bicycle friendly. One, widen the north side by building onto the bridge so that side has a shoulder. Or two, separate the outer shoulder of the south side from the traffic with concrete Jersey barriers, and make that shoulder the bridge's own multi-directional bicycle trail.