A Bad Time On The Roads · Manatee County

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Verdict for Bradenton · live + AADT
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Live feed shows official trouble in Manatee County. Weekly FDOT seasonal factors for Manatee County aren't on this page yet. The badge follows today's live FDOT incidents (refreshed every 5 minutes). AADT map below is from FDOT 2025 counts.

Official trouble in Manatee. Detour or bring a podcast.

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LIVE · Manatee County · as of Oct 27, 11:30 PM ET · refreshes every 5 min
Bad

0 incidents · 32 full road closures · 0 signal issues · 4 scheduled road work in Manatee County.

Official trouble in Manatee. Detour or bring a podcast.

36 pins for incidents / full closures / signals (verdict drivers). Red = Bad · Amber = Meh. Closures without coordinates stay in the list.

By source: Florida Department of Transportation (4) · Manatee County Public Works (32)

Full road closures (32)

Scheduled road work (4)

Listed for awareness; does not change the live label (only full road closures and incidents do).

Sources, rule and fine print
  • FDOT DIVAS traffic events (Florida Department of Transportation): ok, 4 in Manatee County. Public FDOT GIS service, no key. FDOT provides data "as is".
  • Manatee County road closures (Manatee County Public Works): ok, 33 in Manatee County. Public Manatee County ArcGIS FeatureServer (RoadClosures_public), no key. County GIS as-is / general reference disclaimer. Used for the Bradenton page and Tampa Bay master.

Live label (our rule): Only incidents, full road closures, and signal issues set the badge. Math: Bad = any signal, any full road closure, or a crash / major or intermediate-severity incident; Meh = any other incident; Good = none of those. Permitted lane/utility work and other non-full scheduled work are listed separately and do not change Bad/Meh/Good. Counts are what the agencies list; we don't invent any.

Signal outages: appear here only when FDOT posts them to its event feed.

📷 Nearby cameras: FL511 (FDOT) cameras within 1.5 km of the reported location, straight-line. Stills are hot-linked from fl511.com (not stored or proxied here) and refresh in your browser while this page is open.

Times are Eastern. Incident text is pulled server-side. The optional map loads Leaflet from abadtime.com and map tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org (OSM tile policy; low volume, attribution shown). Camera links open fl511.com. Not for navigation or emergencies.

County road & lane closures

Open official county closure map →

Official Manatee County road-closure viewer. Active closures from their public FeatureServer are merged into our live list and map. Manatee County Public Works.

Official live maps:

Traffic cameras (145)

Each link opens that camera on the official FL511 map (FDOT) via #camera-{id}. We don't host, copy or re-stream any images or video. Manatee County; list checked daily, last on Oct 27.

I-75 (46)
I-275 (26)
US 41 (16)
Fruitville Rd (13)
University Pkwy (7)
US 301 (7)
Tuttle Ave (5)
Beneva Rd (4)
University Parkway (4)
Cattleman Rd (3)
Honore Ave (3)
Lockwood Ridge Rd (2)
St. Armands Circle (2)
17TH St (1)
Cr 683 (1)
Desoto Rd (1)
John Ringling Causeway (1)
Lakewood Ranch Blvd (1)
Palmer Blvd (1)
S Osprey Ave (1)

Source: FL511 camera list, Florida Department of Transportation. FL511 says video and images are neither stored nor recorded; FDOT information is not for re-sale or re-use, so we only link.

Map: where it's busy

FDOT annual average daily traffic on state roads in Manatee County.

Legend: ■ 60,000+ vehicles/day · ■ 30,000–60,000 · ■ under 30,000 (our bins). Static map · Report a map issue

The busiest roads

Ranked by average daily vehicles. Bring snacks for anything near the top.

CorridorAvg AADTPeak segmentMilesK
I-75124,481154,00020.69.1%
I-27545,83366,5005.29.0%
9TH ST W42,22045,0001.49.0%
SR-7040,98374,50015.69.0%
TAMIAMI TRAIL39,23774,00020.89.1%
US 30138,09344,0007.99.0%
UNIVERSITY PKWY37,15051,0003.09.0%
8TH AVE W35,49145,5008.69.0%

Formula: Avg AADT = Σ(segment AADT × segment miles) ÷ Σ(segment miles), using FDOT's 2025 AADT segments in Manatee County.

Busiest single segments, 2025:

RoadFrom → ToAADT
I-75SARASOTA CO LINE → Bridge No-130155154,000
I-75Bridge No-130084 → Bridge No-130103142,500
I-75Bridge No-130155 → Bridge No-130084141,000
I-75Bridge No-130103 → 13175310 SB ON115,000
I-7513175302 SB OFF → N/A105,500
I-75N/A → HILLSBOROUGH CO LINE90,000
I-7513175310 SB ON → 13175302 SB OFF80,000
SR-70FAIRWAY GARDENS DR → N/A74,500
TAMIAMI TRAIL13175000 → BR #150189/15018974,000
TAMIAMI TRAILSR 64/MANATEE AVE → Bridge No-13000268,000
I-275RP 13175301 → Bridge No-13011966,500
TAMIAMI TRAILN/A → SR 64/6TH AVE65,500

AADT is the annual average number of vehicles per day on a segment. High volume isn't the same as congestion: freeways often carry the most because they have the most lanes.

How we know

FAQ

What area does this cover?

Manatee County, Florida (Bradenton). Live incidents come from FDOT's DIVAS event feed filtered to that county.

How often does the live list update?

Every 5 minutes. The page is rebuilt from official feeds server-side; we don't invent counts.

Where do the traffic numbers come from?

FDOT Roadway Characteristics Inventory annual average daily traffic (AADT) for state roads in Manatee County, plus FL511 cameras. FDOT provides the data "as is".

Is this for navigation or emergencies?

No. For live routing use FL511 or your maps app. In an emergency call 911.

Last updated: AADT fetched October 27, 2026; page rebuilt October 27, 2026.