PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s tempting for some drivers: 3.3 miles of four-laned, brand-new pavement with no stop signs or traffic lights. But the sheriff’s office is aware that the new Medal of Honor Boulevard, intended as a shortcut between the west side of Pueblo and Pueblo West, also presents an opportunity for people
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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The grand opening of the new Medal of Honor Boulevard happened as scheduled on Friday, and many drivers were eager to try it out. The two-year, $40 million project officially ended after an 11:30 a.m. ceremony on the east end of the construction site — beside the new county jail
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It was with much fanfare late last September that Mayor Yemi Mobolade announced the city’s hiring of 12 public works employees. Although those workers have a variety of duties, Mobolade brought them on to fulfill a campaign promise of devoting more resources to filling potholes. The new crews appear to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s one thing to fill a single pothole on a city street, but it’s quite another to patch up to a dozen of them, including some that are large and deep, in the same intersection. KRDO13’s The Road Warrior recently responded to viewer complaints about two such intersections: Academy and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — This busy street on the city’s southwest side is about to become even more challenging for drivers to navigate. Beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, lane closures and turn restrictions will be in place on 8th Street, between Motor City Drive and Abbot Lane, so that crews can replace an underground
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — It looks so great now, that it almost shines, even at night. For the first time in decades, a block-long drainage ditch just east of the Powers Boulevard/Galley Road intersection isn’t an eyesore choked with broken concrete, weeds, trash and debris. Last month, KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior showed
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews are in their fifth month of making $8 million in improvements to a 2/3-mile stretch of Beacon Lite Road between Bricker Road and Wakonda Way, a mile south of the Douglas County line. In a release issued on Monday, county officials said that the project is still in
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — City officials have spent more than $10 million on several projects to improve the busy corridors of South Nevada Avenue and South Tejon Street. That work should end this week when crews finish installing new traffic and pedestrian signals at the intersection of Nevada and Ramona avenues; a similar installation
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EL PASO/DOUGLAS COUNTY LINE, Colo. (KRDO) — When the express lanes opened in the Interstate 25 “Gap” between Monument and Castle Rock in December 2021, the major concern was drivers illegally weaving in and out of the lanes by crossing the double-white-line boundary. Recently, however, that concern has apparently been replaced by tailgaters — drivers
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The explosion of growth in Fremont County’s “24 Fire” has led authorities to lengthen the 18-mile closure of Highway 115 that has been in place since Thursday evening. The closure is now extended two miles north, essentially to Fort Carson’s main gate. That’s where southbound drivers begin seeing cones,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Two recent construction projects showed how the discovery of underground, unmarked utility lines delayed progress for several months. However, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) said that a similar discovery on the ongoing 8th Street improvements project should not delay work there. In a release issued last week, city officials revealed that
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Travelers along 8th Street will see one last major traffic shift on the Fountain Creek bridge starting with work overnight on Wednesday, March 18, as the west side of the 75-year-old structure will close so that crews can continue bridge repairs. Traffic will remain open in both directions during this work.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A recent rash of pothole damage along North Gate Boulevard in Colorado Springs raises an interesting question. Who bears responsibility for repairing road damage and reimbursing drivers on a city street that is part of a county-led stormwater project that passes through a construction zone? “Generally, within the limits
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many neighbors and park visitors express support for recent drainage work that restricted traffic at the entrance to popular Rampart Park, but they’ve also voiced concerns and offered ideas about how to improve safety there. Of the four citizen concerns shared with KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior, the city will take action
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — To truly understand how quickly this community northeast of Colorado Springs is growing, you need only drive south on Meridian Road between Bent Grass Meadows Drive and Eastonville Road. The entire west side of that stretch is under construction — or soon will be. Future development requires closing the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A two-year, $280,000 project to improve safety on streets and roads was released to the public on Thursday morning. The Transportation Safety Action Plan is designed to benefit drivers, motorcyclists, pedestrians, and bicyclists. Local leaders provided more details in a 10:30 a.m. news conference at the City Administration Building downtown.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — By now, drivers should be accustomed to lane closures along busy Austin Bluffs Parkway that are part of the ongoing construction of a new power substation by Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU). This week, crews closed the right westbound lane between Goldenrod Drive — near the future substation site — and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Rampart Park visitors share their opinions on the narrow park entrance, which was narrowed by a drainage project completed by a city crew at the end of February. Work began a month ago to install and bury an underground stormwater pipe in part of an open drainage channel; a heavy
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A project at the north gate of Schriever Space Force Base begins on Monday and will result in what the installation describes as longer commute times and heavier traffic congestion. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior began looking into the matter after hearing from several viewers who asked about the
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COLORADO SPRINGS/EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A stormwater project that started around Thanksgiving is about to cross busy North Gate Boulevard, marking the halfway point in a $5 million project that will lead to much-needed repaving work. The county’s public works department is building a retention basin on the south side of the boulevard,
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