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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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Colorado Springs fire crews have confirmed no one was injured after a small plane made an emergency landing on the southbound side of Powers Boulevard early Wednesday morning. The crash landing was reported at around 4:15 a.m. on Oct. 1 on Powers Boulevard, just north of Barnes Road. According to
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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — In the past few weeks, KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior has heard from several viewers unhappy about what they describe as “terrible” roads long overdue for repairs. The complaints seem to focus on the stretch of Purcell Boulevard, south of US 50, and on connecting neighborhood streets. Neighbors said that
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — On Monday morning, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) gathered with representatives of the U.S.Department of Transportation (USDOT) and some local elected leaders to demonstrate a new automated attenuator. The event was scheduled for 9 a.m. on the north end of Fountain near the intersection of Highway 85/87 and Duckwood Road.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Shortly after his election two years ago, Mayor Yemi Mobolade said that he wanted more crews repairing potholes on city streets and roads. He announced that he had achieved that goal on Thursday, at the annual State of the City address, held at The Broadmoor. “I recently added 12 new
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The timing was late Thursday morning for KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior, who was on Bonforte Boulevard to investigate when street repaving would start there. A member of the paving team stated that work will commence on Friday and is expected to take up to two weeks to complete, weather permitting.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — For many drivers, the recent stripping of old, rubbery pavement on Woodmen Road was a major accomplishment. However, the best may be yet to come. On Sunday night, crews began repaving Woodmen from just east of the Academy Boulevard interchange, west across the Woodmen/Academy overpass, under the bridge above Interstate
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Residents in unincorporated areas of El Paso County may see faster snow removal on their roads and highways for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. On Tuesday, the county’s transportation department told KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior that it has virtually erased a worker
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On Monday, for the second time in a month, construction crews scheduled daytime lane closures for the ongoing 8th Street improvement project at the bridge across Fountain Creek. However, the difference between the two is that the closure did not occur last time, and is happening this time. City officials said that
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Well before dawn on Friday, workers began closing off some downtown streets, intersections, and even alleys and parking lots, to establish a secure perimeter for the 31st annual Chile & Frijoles Festival. However, fences, signs, and barricades aren’t enough to stop someone intent on causing harm by driving through an event
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Rainy weather that had been a problem on the mile-long Glider Loop, just south of Black Forest, ended up being somewhat of a blessing in the past two weeks. It influenced crews to change their initial plan to place a double chip-seal pavement and instead pave the road with
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — Several viewers have told KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior that they’re concerned about student safety along Mesa Ridge High School because of a perceived lack of speed enforcement by police. Early last month, as reported by The Road Warrior, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) reduced the speed limit from 55
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews are in their third month on the city’s biggest paving job of the season, so pardon their dust. They’re repaving a half mile of Justice Center Road, between US 50 and Grandview Lane, on the eastern edge of town. The two-lane street was last repaved in 1998 and had
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A traffic signal or prohibiting left turns could be in the future of an intersection where a crash into a fire hydrant two weeks ago snarled traffic and made a big mess. Todd Frisbie, the city’s head traffic engineer, said that his department is considering a traffic study at the
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The next step in the ongoing project to build five bridges along two highways will require lane closures for the next two weekends. The first closure begins at 5 p.m. on Friday and ends at 7 a.m. on Sunday, along a half-mile stretch of US 50, east of I-25 to the
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) — The drive to work at Charis Bible College was louder than usual on Thursday morning, but it brightened an otherwise sad day for Scott Little. Little was looking forward to meeting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was scheduled to speak on Thursday night at a college event, until his assassination
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