If you live along a busy road in Cape Coral, apparently there’s the posted speed limit.
And then there’s the speed limit some drivers have personally selected for themselves.
A longtime Cape Coral resident is asking city leaders to do something about speeding along Del Prado Boulevard South, saying drivers routinely fly past his home at all hours of the day and night.
Ron Collins, who has lived in Cape Coral for nearly 30 years, told Gulf Coast News that the speeding has become an everyday problem outside his home. He has even collected videos showing traffic passing by his property.
Which does raise an interesting question:
How many home videos of speeding cars does a resident need before the problem officially becomes a problem?
Del Prado: Where 30 MPH Is Apparently a Suggestion
The speed limit in the area highlighted by the report is 30 mph. Gulf Coast News observed traffic there and reported that while they did not witness any truly extreme speeds during their visit, some motorists were still traveling faster than the posted limit.
And that distinction is important.
Nobody has to be doing 90 mph for speeding to create a dangerous situation.
A residential stretch of road with homes, driveways, pedestrians and people trying to pull into traffic can become considerably less forgiving when drivers start treating 30 mph as merely the opening bid.
Collins described the situation as a daily problem and said the speeding happens both during the day and at night.
So this apparently isn’t:
Friday Night at the Del Prado International Speedway.
It’s more like:
Every Day at the Del Prado International Speedway.
The Cape Coral Traffic Equation
There is something uniquely frustrating about living on a road where everyone else is trying to get somewhere three minutes faster.
You pull out of your driveway.
Someone appears in your rearview mirror approximately 0.4 seconds later.
They are six inches from your bumper.
You are doing the speed limit.
They appear personally offended by this.
Welcome to Cape Coral traffic.
And before somebody says, “Everybody speeds a little,” that is probably true.
But there is a difference between drifting a few miles per hour over the limit and creating a roadway environment where residents don’t feel comfortable entering or leaving their own property.
What Exactly Is the Solution?
That’s where things get more complicated.
Police enforcement can help, but officers cannot sit on every street around the clock.
Additional signs can help, although Cape Coral already possesses one of mankind’s most advanced traffic-control technologies:
the speed-limit sign.
Unfortunately, those only work if people read them.
Other options sometimes used to address neighborhood speeding include increased enforcement, electronic speed-feedback signs, traffic studies or roadway changes designed to naturally slow vehicles.
Whatever the answer is, Collins appears to be asking for something fairly basic:
Take a look at what is happening and determine whether something needs to change.
That doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Cape Crazy Translation
Resident:
“People keep speeding past my house.”
Resident produces videos:
“Here are people speeding past my house.”
Road sign:
“30 MPH.”
Drivers:
“Interesting suggestion.”
At some point, perhaps the problem isn’t a lack of information.
Maybe people just need to remove their foot from the accelerator.
IS THIS CRAZY OR NOT?
Is speeding along Del Prado Boulevard becoming a serious enough problem that Cape Coral needs to take additional action?
Source: Gulf Coast News, Cape Coral resident urges city to address speeding on Del Prado Boulevard. The report was published August 6, 2026, by Muhammad Abdul Qawee.
