COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A stretch of Platte Avenue reopened Friday morning (April 26th), after a deadly crash investigation overnight. The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) confirmed to our team, that this is a fatal hit-and-run case. Friday evening, CSPD provided an image of the suspect vehicle. It is the red Jeep SUV seen
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – KRDO13’s The Road Warrior has uncovered that the State of Colorado is missing up to $8 million annually because drivers fail to register their cars. This means that things like crumbling bridges, potholes, and cracking roads may not be getting addressed. Many viewers are asking why so many people drive
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The city is just two weeks away from releasing the list of which streets will be paved this season, the ninth year of the 2C expanded street paving program. Earlier this week, we saw how the city prioritizes streets on that list. Officials explained and demonstrated how they use what
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The motorcyclist who recklessly drove at high speeds on Interstate 25, from Colorado Springs to Denver in just 20 minutes, was officially sentenced by a judge Tuesday. Rendon Dietzmann, 32, pled guilty to speed exhibition earlier this month, according to a spokesperson from the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. That’s after he
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — After a year of avalanches and even a tornado, Colorado Springs officials look forward to safer, quieter times along the popular Pikes Peak Highway. Officials have announced some changes to the shuttle service and reservation policy that you’ll need to know as the summer tourist season approaches. Skyler Rorabaugh, the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Given the recent increase in pothole complaints, it’s nice to bring drivers a more positive development. According to AAA Colorado, Colorado Springs — as of late Thursday morning — ranked second in the U.S. for having the lowest average gas prices; last week, the city was number one. But you
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior is digging deeper into last week’s paving and pothole briefing by city officials. A group that involved the city’s current mayor, previous mayor, City Council president and top public works staffers responded to public criticism about potholes — which, even after eight years of the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Viewers regularly contact KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior about two areas widely considered to be the city’s worst for potholes. One such area is wide enough to cover all three northbound lanes of Powers Boulevard, just south of the Airport Road intersection; it’s actually a combination of potholes, cracks and
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Minutes before a live report on the city’s east side Tuesday, Cynthia Hopkins drove up to KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior crew, wearing her bathrobe as she explained how agitated she was about pothole damage to her car. “I hit a pothole and damaged my front end,” she shouted through the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — An anticipated closure has been delayed until further notice, while another will resume as scheduled. Airport Road, on the east side of the South Academy intersection, was scheduled to begin a ten-day closure; however, city officials announced Friday that they were postponing it until further notice. Officials provided no reason
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — When you live along a corridor that includes a highway and two railroad tracks, noise is only one of the challenges. A neighbor, Diane Doremus, contacted KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior regarding safety concerns at the intersection of Comanche Village Drive and Desert Circle. Doremus said that the intersection needs a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Mayor Yemi Mobolade confirmed Thursday what he first proposed earlier this year; that he and the City Council will ask voters for a ten-year extension of the 2C expanded street paving program. Mobolade said that the question will be on the ballot in November, and emphasized that the sales tax
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Educating the public and helping them understand the process behind pothole repairs and street paving, is the purpose of an event held by several city officials Thursday morning. The event featureD a pothole repair demonstration and remarks from current Mayor Yemi Mobolade, as well as previous mayor John Suthers. Suthers,
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The peak of the road construction in southern Colorado has arrived with warmer spring temperatures and a major repaving project on I-25 through the Steel City. Officially beginning Monday, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will repave ten miles of the freeway between the Eagleridge Boulevard exit on the north end,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The city’s capital improvements manager says there isn’t an unusual number of crashes at the south end of Circle Drive where a project to replace four old bridges began in December. That manager, Ryan Phipps, responded to complaints from neighbors and drivers that the work zone is dangerous because of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Galley Road, between East Miguel Street and Moffat Circle, will close for eight months starting Monday at the earliest, or later in the week. According to the City of Colorado Springs, during the closure several work operations will occur simultaneously to relocate utilities, replace a Colorado Springs Utilities water pipeline
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Fire crews continue to battle a brush fire that ignited Friday along Fountain Creek on the northeast side of Pueblo. The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) ordered evacuations Friday afternoon for homes located a half-mile north of 1945 Overton Road, involving approximately 25 homes; however, some of those evacuations were lifted
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — You could call Paul Kim the pothole patriot, or the pothole pursuer. “I don’t think we’re the worst,” he said. “Maybe we are, but I would definitely put us in top five. I mean, I can’t see how it could get any worse. I really don’t. I’ve been in other
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Pothole paving and replacing four bridges are the two infrastructure projects currently happening on the south end of Circle Drive. But they create mixed feelings among drivers, pedestrians and neighbors. This is the second and final week of crews repairing numerous potholes on Circle, between Monterey Road and Fountain Boulevard
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El PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) invites citizens to an open house Wednesday evening, April 3, to share details of a proposed widening of US 24 in the Falcon area. The project would extend the highways four-lane configuration 2.5 miles, from where it currently ends at Garrett Road, to
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