COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A project that The Road Warrior first reported on last April, and was scheduled to start the following month, is finally getting underway at the interchange of US 24, Peterson Road, and Space Village Avenue. Officials stated that the right southbound lane of Peterson, between the US 24 overpass and
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Residents of one of the Steel City’s oldest neighborhoods are surprised to learn that the job of rebuilding crumbling streets is not the responsibility of public works crews. Instead, a Denver-based developer is supposed to improve the streets as part of a project to build a luxury apartment complex on a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — In case the holidays kept you too busy to see The Road Warrior’s report a week before Christmas, updating the nearly three-year project to improve a 1.5-mile stretch of I-25, we’re bringing you another look at the progress to date. Work started in the fall of 2023 and is scheduled
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With an extended full closure of Galley Road already frustrating many neighbors and drivers, the last thing they want to hear about is more lane closures on that street. But on Monday, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) closed a lane in each direction on Galley between Parkway — the south entrance
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) — Dry and mild weather in the second half of last year wasn’t enough to help crews catch up on delays caused by wet weather in the first half of the year on road construction here. Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) crews paused for the season just before Christmas, on a
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The Pueblo West girls basketball team defeated Pueblo County in the Canvas Community Classic on Wednesday night 36-32.
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If you had a nickle for every time a Nickell made a play at Peyton High School, you’d be rich, “I started playing for Peyton in second grade, but as soon as we could walk, we got in YMCA basketball,” says Sammi Nickell. Sammi Nickell is the star player for the Peyton girls hoops team.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Road Warrior has learned that for the past ten years, residents of the historic Old North End neighborhood have installed their own signs asking drivers to slow down because of speeding. It follows a growing trend across the state, where residents in Boulder and other communities are taking similar
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There’s something growing at Colorado College, “That’s kind of the bamboo reference, right? It is the work kind of under under dirt right now,” says Colorado College Head Coach, Kris Mayotte. Under the surface the CC hockey team has established roots, “I think its first six months very much the majority of the bamboo growth
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Even neighbors who live near it didn’t know what was happening, and it took KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior parts of four days to find out, too. Many passing drivers also wondered why a block of Cheyenne Road, north of Lake Avenue, had been closed on Friday, with a huge
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EL PASO/TELLER COUNTIES, Colo. (KRDO) — While checking on street repaving in two Pikes Peak area towns last week, KRDO13’s The Road Warrior found that several streets on this year’s list were not paved or left unfinished. In Woodland Park, Pine Ridge Avenue was originally scheduled for repaving last year, but due to weather delays
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With many road projects taking a break for the holiday period, we’re updating you on the status of three projects that started this fall. One ended earlier this week, and two are still in progress. Among them is the 8th Street improvement project, just down the street from the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is entering its third year of de-emphasizing humor on its highway message boards intended to reinforce driver safety. The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) updated its guidelines for messaging in January 2024, as more states began transmitting basic messages such as Get Insured or Get
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It might be the best Christmas present 18 homeowners on Kern Street could have expected, and although the payoff is still two years away, at least they can anticipate it now. A week after KRDO 13’s Road Warrior report in early November about the street’s poor condition, neighbors received a visit from
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Mild fall weather allowed crews to stay on schedule in repaving a 1.5-mile stretch of Woodmen Road, and now officials will watch how winter weather may affect a different paving material used in the project. Stone mason asphalt (SMA) is the product used in resurfacing the busy road, from just
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Work to replace an aging bridge along a popular route between Academy and Powers boulevards was supposed to start nearly two years ago, and now won’t be finished until next spring. “We’re hoping for April,” said Richard Mulledy, the city’s public works director. City officials recently announced the latest delay
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers now have some relief from the twists and narrow lanes they’ve endured during the ongoing construction project along 1.5 miles of I-25 between Fillmore Street and Garden of the Gods Road. Two weeks ago, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) opened the three rebuilt northbound lanes; they’re wider, straighter,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Traffic was reduced from three lanes to one lane in each direction overnight Tuesday as crews continued working on the last of two traffic safety projects on Garden of the Gods Road (GOGR). Similar closures are scheduled overnight Wednesday, between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. In the current phase, crews
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — To many drivers, it may seem as though the improvements project on 8th Street has lasted forever, but it actually began only six months ago. A new round of traffic changes was scheduled to begin at 6 a.m. Tuesday, but didn’t actually happen until 9:30 a.m., and traffic was reduced
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Rockslides are not uncommon in this mountain town, but after two vehicles were crushed by falling rocks on Lovers Lane this summer, officials are taking action. A safety project is in its second week along the west end of the lane, between Lafayette Road and Cañon Avenue. Crews have temporarily
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