It’s a familiar issue dating back decades on Gandy Blvd, drivers racing from St. Petersburg to Tampa at dangerous speeds, and they haven’t slowed down yet. The area surrounding the bridge has seen more development and more traffic, getting busier over recent years. The “flyover” which took out some traffic lights, has led to things being more congested during rush hour, but as night falls police officers think it’s made the area even more ripe for racing. “Now with the overpass, you go from the bridge all the way to the interstate. People just see it’s open, they like to speed,” says St. Petersburg Police Lt. Jason Levey. Every weekend local and state police agencies are arresting drivers traveling well-over the 55 mph speed limit. Take March 1st for example, it didn’t take long for St. Pete officers to pull over one of their first street racers of the month. They charged a driver who they say zoomed passed officers going over 90 miles per hour, racing another vehicle. Two hours later on the same night, they pulled over another speeding culprit, this time on a motorbike. Both incidents and stops were recorded on officers’ dash cameras. Levey says they work nearly every day to catch speeders in the act, with both high visibility enforcement and unmarked cruisers, but even with a presence drivers still seem to floor it.