After President Donald Trump'smotorcade caused snarls Friday night, traffic was pretty smooth this today on Palm Beach across the Intracoastal.
Shortly before 2 p.m., there were few delays on the Flagler Memorial Bridge. In West Palm Beach, traffic was moving normally on South Flagler Drive.
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A concrete barrier on the east side of the Southern Blvd traffic circle south of Mar-a-Lago is still blocking traffic from heading north on South Ocean Blvd. An electronic sign near Dixie Highway encourages people to use South Olive Avenue. to the Royal Park Bridge to avoid backups.
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Bingham Island was also closed down to visitors, with yellow caution tape and barricades blocking the entrances and exits to the parking lot, but people were still able to fish off the bridge.
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There weren’t backups through town near South Ocean and South County Road, which is also closed for through traffic. A sign on Royal Palm Way notified drivers of the closure.
This morning, according to thePalm Beach Post, Trump made an unannounced trip across the Intracoastal to his Trump International Golf Club outside West Palm.
Traffic on and between Southern Blvd. and Okeechobee Blvd. is expected to worsen into the late afternoon and evening, as a march in protest of Trump is planned from Trump Plaza in West Palm Beach, down South Flagler Drive and end at the Southern Boulevard Bridge.
The march’s route originally was to take protesters from Trump Plaza to Mar-a-Lago during the Red Cross Ball. But now after a rise in safety concerns and the transfer of leadership for the march the route will not enter the Town of Palm Beach.
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