COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — First, the good news: Repaving and other improvements along one of the area’s busiest corridors have now become a higher priority. The bad news, however, is that 2028 is the earliest that work will happen. Most drivers are familiar with the poor condition of the Fountain Expressway, and the east
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — The town’s paving season ended only a few weeks ago, but officials are already working on one of two projects on North 9th Street to prepare for repaving next year. 9th Street extends across the city from north to south, connecting to downtown, US 50, and the Arkansas River. Crews
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The county is now a week into a major drainage project that will eventually allow crumbling pavement at a busy intersection to be repaved. Numerous viewers have complained to KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior for the past year about the poor condition of North Gate Boulevard at Struthers Road;
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers, businesses, and neighbors along the east end of Main Street will get a pleasant holiday present: the completion of a natural gas line relocation that closed several blocks of the street for months at a time. The project, which started early last year, has affected several blocks at the
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Five years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, county officials began courting high school graduates to offset worker shortages that limited how much snowplowing and other public works tasks could be done. That effort appears to be a growing success. The county’s CONNECT program periodically invites students
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — To the concrete and asphalt used in widening and upgrading sidewalks along two blocks in the heart of downtown, you can include a natural resource. Trees. This week, workers began planting 38 trees along Tejon Street between Colorado Avenue and Kiowa Street. As of early Wednesday morning, six of 18
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews are three months into a $12.7 million project to eventually close a railroad crossing at the intersection of Las Vegas and Royer streets and replace it with an access road and a new crossing. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior first reported on the plan in late August. Crews are
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many viewers have asked why work hasn’t continued this year on the project to improve two miles of South Academy Boulevard between Fountain Boulevard and Jet Wing Drive. Preliminary construction began early last year and was initially delayed until this fall, but officials last week announced that work will continue
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Work to modify center medians and reduce left turns enters its second month on Garden of the Gods Road between Interstate 25 and Chestnut Street. City officials hope to reduce crashes and injuries from drivers who try to cross six lanes of traffic while making left turns across the busy
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials held a ceremony late Thursday morning to celebrate the opening of the new westbound bridges on South Circle Drive. Westbound traffic is still using the two old bridges, which will be demolished eventually; traffic on the two eastbound bridges opened last year. Officials said that the westbound bridges won’t
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Some neighbors in part of Security-Widefield have finally gotten the street repaving they hoped to receive last year. While several residents wish that the quality of the paving job had been better, they’re generally pleased that the work is over. “Taking too long, kinda does make sense,” said Chloe
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The City of Pueblo is looking ahead to a new Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, which aims to enhance road safety. It comes as a city report reveals that Pueblo has the highest per capita rate of fatal crashes, and crashes in general, in the entire state of Colorado. Source: City of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials are temporarily closing two street segments on Monday because of projects to either rebuild or demolish existing bridges. One closure will happen on Costilla Street, just east of Wahsatch Avenue, on the edge of downtown; that’s where crews will begin tearing down a 70-year-old railroad bridge. The second closure
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A major road project that many people thought would never end is now just a few months from being finished. Officials said that most of the 2-1/2 year, $70 million widening of 1.5 miles of South Academy Boulevard, between Interstate 25 and Milton E. Proby Parkway, should be completed
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Along the three-mile stretch of Highway 105 between Monument and Palmer Lake, you’ll find many places where drainage has significantly eroded the shoulders or the ground on the roadside. The worst example, however, appears to be at the Highway 105/South Valley Road intersection in Palmer Lake, in front of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) confirms a car crashed into the King Soopers off Uintah Street. The call came in around 4:11 p.m. Tuesday, police say. The CSPD states that the driver entered the parking lot, then made a right turn and drove eastbound towards the building, accelerating to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — When the next round of the 2C expanded street paving program starts in the spring, residents along Kern Street hope to be included. Homeowner Dave Cozad hopes it’s sooner rather than later. Cozad contacted KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior this summer about extremely bumpy conditions on Kern, a block-long street
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — A nearly 50-year-old bridge will close on Monday as crews begin a repair project that isn’t scheduled for completion until early April. The Mel Harmon Bridge is slightly east of the Interstate 25/US 50/Highway 47 interchange; a ramp (Mel Harmon Drive) connects to the four-lane bridge that crosses the Union Pacific
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A different brand of asphalt, along with additives of fiberglass and Kevlar, are being used or tested by the city’s public works in an effort to improve paving efficiency and effectiveness. Currently, workers are in the final stages of repaving a stretch of busy Woodmen Road, between the Academy Boulevard
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials this week revealed that a whopping 95% of streets to be repaved during the next ten years are in residential neighborhoods, but the remaining 5% will include a busy street through the heart of the city that regularly draws complaints from drivers. The highlight of next year’s paving list
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