COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — While El Paso County is wrapping up its improvements on South Academy Boulevard between Interstate 25 and Milton E. Proby Parkway, a similar project is intensifying on the city’s side of the corridor between the parkway and Fountain Boulevard. The city’s project resumed last month after a year-long break to
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — The City Council unanimously followed the recommendation of a citizens’ advisory council and will spend $450,000 to repair and reopen a neighborhood road that has been closed due to erosion concerns since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Council members voted for the move during Tuesday night’s regular meeting, selecting one
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On Wednesday morning, for the first time, traffic began moving across the new Airport Road bridge over Powers Boulevard. Officials with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) said on Monday that they weren’t sure if they’d open the overpass during the overnight hours or “first thing” Wednesday morning. However, as
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A mystery has developed regarding the mile-long east end of Space Village Avenue between Highway 94 and Marksheffel Road. “It’s been closed for several years,” said Brenda Perkins, a Yoder resident who contacted KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior about the situation. Perkins said that she and her husband, Jerry,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s something that drivers have waited more than two years for, and now it’s only a few days from happening. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) says that it will open the new overpass on Airport Boulevard across Powers Boulevard on Wednesday. It’s a development that local leaders have anticipated
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers and neighbors are adjusting to detours and daytime construction noise as Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) starts the first of two phases of a water line replacement. Work began on Wednesday on 19th Street, between King Street and Koshare Avenue, covering two blocks on the city’s west side. CSU is
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — On Wednesday, a crew began removing old concrete panels in a block-long drainage ditch that was crumbling and had accumulated thick brush and piles of debris. The ditch is between the intersection of Ford Street and Seneca Road, and Valley Street to the south, in the Cimarron Hills community
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — While most drivers slept Monday night and early Tuesday morning, significant traffic impacts took place on Marksheffel Road between Barnes Road and Dublin Boulevard. That stretch is the northern half of the ongoing widening project that started in the summer of 2023 along the city’s northeastern border, and covers nearly
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s been nearly three months since construction of the four new bridges on South Circle Drive ended, and the remaining step of the overall project is to tear down the last piece of the old bridges. That demolition work will require closing Hancock Expressway under the new bridges for four
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews that are building a pair of roundabouts between US 24 and Peterson Space Force’s north gate will spend the second federal holiday in the past month working on the project. Southbound Peterson Road, between the highway and the gate, will be closed Saturday, Sunday, and Monday for the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — There’s a recent saying: We don’t care how the sausage is made, we just want to enjoy it. A similar mindset seems true for a KRDO 13 viewer regarding street repaving. The viewer contacted KRDO 13 on Wednesday to ask about street work closing the intersection of Murray Boulevard and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Although the intersection of Marksdheffel and Peaceful Valley roads is in the Colorado Springs city limits, the neighborhoods around it are in unincorporated El Paso County, and the area is slightly north of the Fountain city limits. Those are interesting aspects of a project that began on Tuesday to install
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials plan to repave more than 40 roads and perform other types of surface treatments on another 160, in the recently-released proposed version of the 2026 paving list. Joshua Palmer, the county’s head engineer, said the focus will continue to be on preservation — investing more resources to keep
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — This should be the third and final week of a drainage project that has restricted traffic flow at the lone entrance to Rampart Park, on the city’s northeast side. That will please many drivers who have had challenges navigating the narrow road with only one lane open during the project.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Klavs Veinbergs scored twice and Jackson Unger had 29 saves Friday as Colorado College skated to a 2-2 tie with No. 8 Denver at Ed Robson Arena. Following a scoreless overtime period, DU’s Kristian Epperson posted the only goal during the three-player shootout to give the Pioneers (16-11-3, 12-6-1 NCHC) the extra
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On the back of Kaidan Mbereko’s helmet is a decal of the Kool-Aid Man. An interesting choice considering the Kool-Aid Man breaks through walls, while Mbereko himself is a brick wall. “It’s kind of counterintuitive,” Mbereko says. “I’m just trying to stick to being a goalie and not letting anything go bad.” Mbereko won the first game
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — There’s renewed hope that a road considered to be the area’s worst may finally be repaired this year after decades of deterioration. That road is actually part of two roads: the north end of Jerry Murphy Road in the city and the south end of Overton Road in Pueblo County. The
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A traffic signal project that began just before Thanksgiving was supposed to be finished by New Year’s Day, then by the end of January. Many viewers have asked why work to upgrade signals on Garden of the Gods Road, at the Northpark Drive and Mark Dabling Boulevard intersections, isn’t done
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The efforts of a Colorado Congressman and the head of the county’s Board of Commissioners have resulted in $1 million of federal funding for the intersection of Constitution Avenue and Peterson Road. Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colorado Springs, recently announced the allocation, citing the assistance of Commissioner Carrie Geitner. His
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Westbound US 50 was shut down early Tuesday due to a water main break, according to Pueblo Water and the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). According to COTrip.org, crews shut down US 50 at approximately 2:52 a.m. on Tuesday. The water main break is on the westbound side of the MLK
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