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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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — For the first time since they were built in 1958, the cloverleaf ramps at the junction of I-25 and US 50 East will no longer be accessible by traffic as of 7 p.m. Friday. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is permanently closing the southbound I-25 ramp toward eastbound US 50,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The latest phase of a $15 million improvements project on the east end of Dublin Boulevard is finished, after a half-mile segment that was closed all summer reopened a week ago. City officials announced Friday that crews have finished work requiring a full closure of Dublin between Fieler Drive to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — KRDO 13 will have a crew outside Palmer High School for the beginning of today’s planned teachers strike in School District 11 (D-11) Around 600 teachers, a third of D-11’s total teaching staff, are expected to walk the picket lines at several schools starting at 7 a.m. The Colorado Education
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) has started a second project on Austin Bluffs Parkway, west of Academy Boulevard, that will result in reducing traffic to one lane in both directions. The latest project covers around a half-mile eastbound, from American Drive to just west of Academy; the two closed lanes reopen
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — At a time when local governments are focusing more on pedestrian safety, mailbox placement has become an issue for several viewers who recently contacted KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior. Those viewers said that many of the streets east of Sierra High School — between Jet Wing Drive and Astrozon Boulevard
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The latest delay in the year’s street paving operation was due to an unexpected shutdown of the asphalt plant providing material. It happened last Thursday, a day before paving on Bonforte Boulevard was scheduled to start; a member of the paving team said that the plant was hit by lightning. Fortunately,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Wednesday was the first opportunity to see one of the city’s dozen new public works employees recently hired to help in the never-ending battle against pesky potholes. KRDO 13 went to the intersection of Woodmen Road and Union Boulevard on the city’s northeast side to meet Steve, one of the
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