COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) responded to a grass fire Monday, in the northeast corner of the Union Boulevard/Fountain Expressway along the Martin Luther King, Jr. bypass. The CSFD asked drivers to avoid the area while crews worked; authorities briefly closed southbound Union at Fountain. The fire was reported
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — Eight months after officials briefly closed a flood-damaged bridge on an Interstate 25 frontage road, a second inspection has found more damage to it and a second bridge south of downtown. Officials briefly closed the bridge on Bandley Drive after debris cleanup from two days of intense rainfall that also flooded
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A much-needed road project that many residents believe is long overdue, is taking shape on the city’s northeastern border. Workers are nine months into a three-year widening of Marksheffel Road, from North Carefree Circle to Dublin Boulevard; the first phase focuses on the 1.2-mile stretch between North Carfree and Tamlin
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Gayle Sturdivant, acting public works director, revealed Wednesday that the safety and infrastructure project along most of South Academy Boulevard won’t be completed until 2026, instead of 2025 as expected. “We knew there were going to be groundwater issues in the area, and those have continued to be a problem,”
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — We often drive or walk past road construction projects without realizing what’s involved in making them happen and keeping everyone safe. That thought is what led Jesse Graf, a traffic control supervisor with Finsterwald Irrigation and Landscaping Services, to contact The Road Warrior, Scott Harrison. “I was watching the first
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Monday begins the third week of reports by The Road Warrior, KRDO 13’s Scott Harrison, focusing specifically on local roads, bridges and related infrastructure. After receiving two dozen email comments from viewers in the first week, 13 more came in last week and two more arrived on Monday morning. Among
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — As traffic along a key corridor adjusts to a current bridge repair and an upcoming bridge demolition, drivers are also coping with the temporary closure of an exit ramp to another busy thoroughfare. During overnight hours Thursday, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) closed the eastbound off-ramp to Highway
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — In unanimously approving the 2024 road paving list this week, El Paso County Commissioners praised a new data-driven approach used by county engineers to better assess road conditions and increase paving efficiency in the county’s unincorporated areas. Such an approach — already utilized by cities like Fountain and Pueblo
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — Embattled businessman and property owner Brett Taylor received what he hopes is good news regarding the threat of erosion damage to his building that has already closed a nearby road for nearly four years. The Fountain Creek Watershed District (FCWD) tells KRDO 13 that a yearlong project to control erosion along
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — While officials continue to search for ways to reduce impacts of erosion from strong flows in Fountain Creek, Brett Taylor says that he may lose his business in the next heavy rainstorm. Taylor owns a painting and stain business along Southmoor Drive — a section of which closed nearly four years
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Suggestions for road work, safety improvements and related infrastructure upgrades have steadily come in to KRDO13’s new beat, The Road Warrior, manned by veteran reporter Scott Harrison. As of Monday — a week after the coverage began — 24 people had sent emails to KRDO requesting that certain projects be
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Slick roads caused by light snowfall during the Friday morning rush hour led to a vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 25 between Fillmore Street and Garden of the Gods Road. According to COtrip, a Colorado Department of Transportation app that provides travel information and road conditions, drivers were told to
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — With a recent increase in serious accidents at local pedestrian crossings, officials are placing a higher priority on improving safety at many of those locations. Earlier this week, county commissioners approved spending $11 million to conduct safety upgrades at 24 crossings around several schools, fire stations and intersections. Joshua
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — As the Pikes Peak region continues to grow, so does its need for more and better infrastructure to include road, street and bridge construction and maintenance, improved safety and decreased traffic congestion. KRDO13 In addition, more drivers depend on the latest information about how transportation infrastructure affects their trips to
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews have started a $5 million south side project near downtown that will improve one neighborhood street, close an adjacent street and ease traffic congestion to and from nearby Interstate 25 and Fort Carson. The project — one of the last facets of the city’s Moving Fountain Forward plan approved by
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TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Dozens of drivers hoping to strike it big at the Cripple Creek casinos probably felt unlucky after adverse travel conditions caused by snow delayed their arrival. At around 10:30 Wednesday morning, authorities closed the 18-mile stretch of State Highway 67 between Cripple Creek and Divide after a brief but intense
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Workers recently demolished a bridge built in 1957 across South Cheyenne Creek and expect to finish construction of a new bridge by Memorial Day weekend. Crews started the project last month and tore down the old bridge a few weeks ago — rerouting the creek to flow under the site
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Extending Powers Boulevard south to Interstate 25, using new software to better assess road conditions and upgrading 24 pedestrian crossings were on the agenda of the five El Paso County commissioners Tuesday. The county is currently in its second week of a three-week public comment period on the proposed
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. (KRDO) — The number of potholes and their size have decreased considerably over the past ten years but they still pop up regularly on older sections of I-25, where we often get 40-degree temperature swings or more on the same day. KRDO13 The Colorado Department of Transportation recently completed a maintenance operation
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Shawn Palko said that walking her dog along the narrow Cheyenne Road corridor with few or no sidewalks, was rarely enjoyable. KRDO But a current project has changed her outlook. “It was scary and dirty walking my dog here,” she recalled. “But this project has been going very quickly. It
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