Authorities closed Metro Parkway between Colonial and Crystal Drive until just after noon. The shutdown crippled LeeTran, the county’s public bus system, because their depot was in the cordoned-off area. As many as 4-thousand riders were left with no way to get to work. LeeTran spokeswoman Joann Haley says the closure was like a set of dominoes.

“The way that the impact kind of moves out in waves from the center of a situation whether it be an accident or a road closure.”

Investigators blocked off Metro as they searched for evidence in a fatal car shooting. Tens of thousands of motorists got trapped in the resulting parking lot traffic jam as they flooded other roads. The delay also meant a loss of money and productivity. William called into W-G-C-U’s Gulf Coast Live to say three houses didn’t get his tile deliveries.

“The homeowners are now a day behind and the general contractor now has to pay for an extra day for those houses to not be closing.”

The two-mile Metro shutdown is further proof of this region’s overtaxed roads. Planners say they’re doing what they can to make do with too many cars and not enough transportation arteries.