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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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — City public works officials gathered Tuesday to reflect on the accomplishments of the 2C expanded street paving program. Sub-freezing temperatures the past two nights arrive just as crews finish up the final projects on this year’s paving list; Tuesday’s gathering was along Flying W Ranch Road. This marks the tenth
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s happening four years later than expected, but we’re finally seeing progress on a paving project at a major intersection east of the Air Force Academy (AFA). Many drivers have often complained to KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior about poor road conditions at the intersection of North Gate Boulevard (in
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COLORADO Springs, Colo. (KRDO) — A viewer recently recalled her close call with a bicycle on Tejon Street, one of the few streets in town where bike riding is illegal. Annie-Marie Young said that it had never happened to her before. “I got out of my car, just like normal, and I popped up on
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A $315,000 project to repair a century-old bridge has closed a street for the past month and is scheduled to be finished by the end of next month. However, that completion date could now be delayed due to a recent development. The city apparently has issued a stop-work order to
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A new state law that expanded the stopping requirements for traffic around school buses apparently isn’t working so well in Widefield School District 3. The law, reported by KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior in early August, before classes resumed, requires drivers — especially those traveling in the opposite direction
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Police said that one of several devices used to compare drivers’ speeds to posted speed limits and reduce speeding is working in an eastside neighborhood. But a viewer who contacted KRDO13’s The Road Warrior and lives in the area isn’t so sure. Approximately a month ago, police placed a speed
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A block of Hopeful Drive closed Monday and will remain closed until next summer as crews demolish an existing bridge and build a new one. The Hopeful bridge is between North Blissful Circle and Sedate Lane, north of North Carefree Circle and east of the Academt Boulevard/Austin Bluffs Parkway intersection.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Fall may seem to be too late in the year to start a road project, but good weather is providing crews with an opportunity to begin preliminary work on a road north of Monument, between Interstate 25 and Palmer Lake. The county has various improvements planned for Beacon Lite
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — In a mountain town with a population of slightly more than 600, you wouldn’t expect speeding to be an issue. But third-year mayor Todd Dixon said that it’s what his constituents ask him about the most. “We don’t have a 24/7 police force,” he explained. “We just have a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Few road projects are as large, expensive, and impactful as the major infrastructure project in the heart of the city that has entered its third year. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) expects to finish a $62 million improvement project by the end of next summer. Crews are making various
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It was last summer that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) broke ground on the project to build a bridge on Airport Road that crosses busy Powers Boulevard on the city’s east side. Work still has another year to go, with the scheduled completion date of December 2026. With each
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The above headline may be cause for celebration among drivers who have complained for years about what was considered one of the worst roadway stretches in the Pikes Peak Region. By the end of October, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) expects to complete the repaving of six miles of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews have begun modifying the center median on one of the city’s busiest roads in an effort to reduce crashes caused by drivers turning left across all six lanes of traffic. Crews started work Monday on Garden of the Gods Road between I-25 and Chestnut Street, just west of the
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