COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO13) — City officials spoke Wednesday about installing safety signals at four new school zones. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior reported on a similar installation last summer at Pine Creek High School. The new locations are: Rampart High School – along Union and Lexington Mitchell High School – along Galley and Murray
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials regularly get requests from citizens to repave gravel roads which comprise half of the county’s overall road network. But doing that on a wide scale would be too expensive, so officials devote resources to repairing, maintaining and preserving existing gravel roads. One of those resources is the same
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The most slippery driving on a bitterly cold Monday morning may have been in the foothills west of Interstate 25, a city public works official said. According to Lance Holmes, a public works supervisor, most of the city’s snow-packed and icy streets were on the west side of town. However,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many residents will be scrambling over the next two days to ensure that they’re ready for the weekend cold snap that will bring low temperatures of between zero and -10 degrees from Saturday night through Tuesday night. A spokesman for AAA Colorado said Wednesday that all of its member auto
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Officials said that they can use heavy equipment to slice off, or peel off, mud on unpaved gravel roads in rural areas. Jack Ladley, the county’s deputy director of public works, recently explained the procedure when responding to complaints of muddy roads after melting snow from November storms left
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Avoiding tragedies like two just before Thanksgiving 2023 at a busy intersection in Falcon is the goal of a road safety committee that formed two years ago and recently met to decide its first steps. Within a week of that holiday, two separate crashes at or near the intersection
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) project that started a year ago to install five miles of new gas pipeline, continues with its second phase Monday. The latest work will require a three-month closure of southbound 31st Street, between Garden of the Gods and Old Colorado City, from Fontanero Street to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The surprise discovery of a fiber optics cable has delayed the finish of a Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) project from last October until sometime next month. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior learned of the situation after being contacted by a viewer who asked why work wasn’t completed yet. Jeff Kretzer,
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Construction crews are managing daytime closures this week on two ramps along the South Academy Boulevard widening project. It’s happening so that workers can install sound walls bordering the adjacent Stratmoor Valley neighborhood. Both closures are at the south end of the construction zone; workers closed the northbound on-ramp from Hartford
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s just been a little more than a month since city crews stopped water flowing from an underground spring on Dublin Boulevard that was an ice and splash hazard for drivers. Now, a similar problem has developed at the intersection of Rockrimmon Boulevard and Vindicator Drive. City officials and Colorado
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Small rocks are among the materials contained in the gravel mix applied to unpaved rural roads, but one resident said that some of the rocks are larger than they should be and are damaging vehicles and windshields. The resident recently contacted KRDO13’s The Road Warrior about her concern; she
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EL PASO/DOUGLAS COUNTY LINE, Colo. (KRDO) – After a December grace period that resulted in approximately 10,000 violations, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) starts the new year with tighter enforcement of illegal and unsafe driving habits in the I-25 “Gap” between Monument and Castle Rock. CDOT said that it is the first in the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – UPDATE: As detectives continue investigating the circumstances surrounding the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, ABC News has received word the man behind the wheel came from Colorado Springs. Federal sources confirm that the FBI is conducting operations and searches in Colorado Springs, in
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The last time it was this cold overnight, a week before Thanksgiving, a section of Dublin Boulevard became a sheet of ice as water flowing from an underground spring froze on the pavement. It was something thing that many drivers feared would happen after the leak developed earlier this year.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Officials said that they performed some type of resurfacing on 212 roads this year, covering approximately 10% of its overall network which is evenly divided between paved and unpaved roads. Jack Ladley, the county’s deputy public works director, said that crews repaved 39 roads with asphalt; the longest stretch
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Just two months after the end of this year’s paving season, officials have already prepared a preliminary list of streets to be repaved for next year. To view the list, visit: https://coloradosprings.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=8e217b737c384074a1a6be1ce30058b9. The list is included as part of a map showing streets repaved since 2021; the streets recommended for
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Whether you’re experiencing homelessness, are low on money or are just seeking companionship for the holiday, volunteer organizations didn’t forget you on Wednesday. Officials said that four local organizations, including the Pueblo Rescue Mission, helped those in need by serving food and providing gift baskets on Christmas. The Crazy Faith Ministry,
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Six months after KRDO13’s The Road Warrior first reported on the poor condition of the US 50 frontage road in front of the Belmont Post Office, it has received attention from a Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) crew. Earlier this month, workers used liquid rubber to seal numerous cracks in the
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials in the county and in Colorado Springs say that they’re repairing as many as or more potholes than they did last year, even with more streets repaved than ever before. County crews have patched 12,000 potholes, 3,000 more than last year; city crews have repaired more than 92,000
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – On December 25, 2024, the Pueblo Police Department (PPD) was called to the 2600 block of Himes Ave just after 7 a.m. The department says they got a report of an unconscious person on the sidewalk near the Acero Avenue intersection. PPD says officers arrived on the scene and they located
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