COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Major construction work on 8th Street that The Road Warrior first reported on last month began Monday morning. The affected area is roughly a half-mile stretch between the US 24 Frontage Road and Motor City Drive, on the city’s southwest side. However, the first of the project’s three phases will
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The $70 million project to widen a 1.5-mile segment of busy South Academy Boulevard enters its second summer, and officials assure us that there won’t be a third. “We’re about 70% complete,” Brett Hatrzell, the project manager for El Paso County, revealed Thursday. “We’re on schedule to finish early
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The county has nine wooden bridges, also called timber bridges, that are at least 75 years old but remain in use. A timber bridge on McClelland Road, just north of US 24 and slightly west of Calhan, will be the first of that group to be demolished and replaced.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A year has passed since a controversy in the Ivywild neighborhood over white and yellow lane markers called delineators that were installed at two intersections along Cheyenne Boulevard. And now, there are new developments since KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior broke the story in May 2024. Delineators have been removed
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — “Will it rain during the graduation ceremony?” and “Will the Thunderbirds fly?” were likely the two big questions being asked in the hours before Thursday morning’s commencement exercises at the Air Force Academy. Several hours before the ceremony’s scheduled start, overnight rain had stopped but clouds hung low over the
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — The hope was that the town’s $3 million Main Street Revitalization project would have been finished a month ago, in time for the 87th annual Music & Blossom Festival. But that didn’t happen, for several reasons beyond the control of workers — such as weather and surprises not uncommon when
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The time between deciding which street to be repaved, doing the concrete work required beforehand, and then applying the new layer of asphalt can be a frustrating wait for drivers and neighbors, but brings relief and satisfaction when the work is finished. Last week, residents in the hilly Broadmoor Bluffs
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — From a road and driver perspective, two noteworthy changes have been made since last year at Rainbow Falls, a popular tourist attraction just west of Manitou Springs along Serpentine Drive. First, as previously reported by KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior, The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the county
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s wasn’t described as an emergency repair job, but town officials said that a repaving project Thursday on the main route through town had a high priority. The work done by crews was actually less repaving and more filling large potholes on a block of Manitou Avenue between Pawnee Avenue
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers may have noticed recent construction on a two-block segment of Woodmen Road between I-25, east to Campus Drive; it’s a project that started last week, continues through the end of next month, and has two objectives. The first goal is reducing traffic in the two westbound turn lanes on
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BREAKING UPDATE: MONDAY 5:58 A.M. – Just before 6 a.m. on Monday, the Colorado Springs Fire Department confirmed the discovery of a deceased person when firefighters were clearing units after a fire in a storage facility. CSFD officials say they are now working to determine the origin and cause of the fire. According to the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Road Warrior has occasionally reported on the frustration felt by drivers coping with persistent potholes in parking lots, on access roads and service drives, or on other privately owned and managed property. But there’s recent progress to share on two private areas with notoriously bad potholes. One location is
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A mile-long stretch of Furrow Road, just east of the Monument town limits and south of Highway 105, has two distinct segments: the older, northern section of around three-fourths of a mile, and a new extension to Higbee Road that opened in the past year. County officials plan to
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews are several months into a two-year, $10 million project to rebuild streets and improve drainage in Colorado Centre, a community of around 1,100 homes southeast of the Colorado Springs Airport. The community has existed since 1984 and has had constant street and flooding issues — although county officials
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials announced Wednesday that they have received funding from a state grant to finance a continued extension of the town’s Creek Walk trail that parallels Manitou Avenue and Fountain Creek. The quarter-of-a-million-dollar award comes from the Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Revitalizing Main Streets program; it will pay for extending
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) — Roads remained wet in Teller County but not icy and slick as they were Tuesday; light snowflakes fell during the early morning hours Wednesday and intensified at midday. There’s still a lot of plowing activity on sidewalks, neighborhood streets and parking lots, even though much of the accumulated snow continues
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — You may tend to think of water main projects as happening only on major streets, such as the current project on Galley Road and another scheduled to start this fall on 8th Street. Actually, however, most of the more than 60,000 linear feet of replaced water mains from Colorado Springs
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The main route to the Manitou Incline and Cog Railway experienced slightly more traffic congestion Monday because of a project to remove several trees that were too close to the street. Manitou officials announced Friday that the downhill (southbound) side of Ruxton Avenue — a narrow corridor on the west
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — During the day, the half-mile of 8th Street between Cimarron Street and Motor City Drive becomes one of the city’s busiest, with more than 30,000 vehicles traveling on it. Get ready for more congestion during the next year. City officials have announced a $12 million, multifaceted project that will make
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On Wednesday night, just three nights after a weekend closure of Marksheffel Road ended, the busy northeast-side corridor will close again for the weekend. This time, a different section will be affected — three-quarters of a mile between Barnes Road and Stetson Hills Boulevard — and start sooner that before.
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