COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, (KRDO) — Two significant signs of progress will occur during the next two days on the ongoing safety and improvement project south of downtown, along Nevada Avenue and Tejon Street at the Interstate 25 interchange. Overnight Tuesday — between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. — the two blocks of Nevada between I-25
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Some older neighborhoods have streets that were built before current construction standards required storm drains to be closer together than they are now. To convey that drainage, the older streets have “cross pans” — concrete surfaces that transport water across intersections until it enters a storm drain. That creates two
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will close Powers Boulevard north of Airport Road, Friday night through Sunday night, as crews install bridge girders for the overpass that will carry Airport over Powers. NOTE: CDOT announced on Thursday morning that it has canceled a closure originally scheduled for Thursday night,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Yet another round of snow and sub-freezing temperatures will likely contribute to potholes developing, or cause previously-filled potholes to pop out. Corey Farkas, the city’s operations and maintenance manager for public works, recently explained the challenge that his crews face in responding to pothole complaints. “If we have winter weather
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials said that recent inspections of its nine wooden (also known as timber) bridges found no significant or critical levels of deterioration and the structures remain safe to drive on. The inspections resulted from last summer’s sudden closing and subsequent demolition of a timber bridge on Ramah Road West,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — After recent situations in which an underground spring and a leaking water main caused water to flow over streets and created an ice risk, some drivers thought it might be happening again on Bijou Street, just north of Academy Boulevard. Last week, a viewer notified KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Economics have led officials to change their strategy the past few years in maintaining its wide network of paved and unpaved roads. In 2018, former commissioner Stan VanderWerf described the county’s maintenance needs as in the “millions and millions” of dollars and at a commissioner meeting two weeks ago,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials said that while they work on a plan to replace the Fillmore Street bridge over Monument Creek, it remains safe to drive on. Gayle Sturdivant, deputy public works director, said that the city engineers have constantly monitored the bridge for years, even before after a company hired in 2022
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — One of the city’s most notorious areas for flash flooding is the target of a two-year, $11 million project to improve drainage and increase safety. The project, which KRDO 13 has reported on extensively since 2019, is at the intersection of Siferd Boulevard and Date Street, a block east of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The city has closed a bridge over Fountain Creek at the intersection of 25th Street and Naegele Road, on the southwest side of Old Colorado City. According to city officials, the bridge was built 100 years ago; it parallels Cimarron Street (US 24) and also is part of the route
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Residents in this rural community south of Fountain are asking why some of their roads are literally falling apart recently, and becoming potentially unsafe to drive on. The problem seems most prevalent in two areas: On Hanover Road, between Old Pueblo Road and Meridian Road; and Myers Road, several
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — As The Road Warrior’s daily coverage of street and road issues enters its second year, KRDO13 reflects on the first year of coverage by looking back on some of the more memorable reports. The first Road Warrior segment focused on overnight pothole work along Interstate 25, between downtown and Garden
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, (KRDO) — The next phase of widening Marksheffel Road in the city’s northeastern corner will close a mile-long stretch overnight on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Marksheffel will be closed between Dublin Boulevard and Stetson Hills Boulevard from 7:30 p.m. until 5:30 a.m.; that segment is the northern end of a three-year, $60
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Many neighbors and drivers have complained about the negative impacts of a deteriorating drainage channel for years before KRDO 13 began reporting on it in the summer of 2020. John Bailey’s backyard faces the channel and he reflected on how he has tried to live with it for 33
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The best way to describe the rate of traffic fatalities across the state, is: Better, but still not good. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) released 2024 statistics Tuesday, revealing that 684 people died on streets, roads and highways — a 5% drop from 2023. “Speeding and impaired driving are
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers running errands or traveling Saturday through the south end of South Academy Boulevard will have to detour around a day-long southbound closure between Bradley Road and Highway 85/87. The closure, from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m., allows crews to move safety barriers into place for improvement work on
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – If someone told you that driving on bad roads and bridges was costing you $2,610 annually, would you believe it? That’s the assertion in a new study released Wednesday by TRIP, a nonprofit transportation research group based in Washington, D.C. The study — “Keeping Colorado Mobile: Meeting the State’s Need
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials regularly get requests from citizens to repave gravel roads which comprise half of the county’s overall road network. But doing that on a wide scale would be too expensive, so officials devote resources to repairing, maintaining and preserving existing gravel roads. One of those resources is the same
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The most slippery driving on a bitterly cold Monday morning may have been in the foothills west of Interstate 25, a city public works official said. According to Lance Holmes, a public works supervisor, most of the city’s snow-packed and icy streets were on the west side of town. However,
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Avoiding tragedies like two just before Thanksgiving 2023 at a busy intersection in Falcon is the goal of a road safety committee that formed two years ago and recently met to decide its first steps. Within a week of that holiday, two separate crashes at or near the intersection
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