Updating status of Colorado Springs-area road closures Monday
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- An anticipated closure has been delayed until further notice, while another will resume as scheduled.
Airport Road, on the east side of the South Academy intersection, was scheduled to begin a ten-day closure; however, city officials announced Friday that they were postponing it until further notice.
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Officials provided no reason for the change.
It would have been the second closure for that section of Airport within the past year, as part of the $62 million major reconstruction of South Academy between Bijou Street and Jet Wing Drive; the east side of South Academy at the Pikes Peak Avenue intersection -- just north of Airport -- recently reopened after an extended closure.
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The South Academy project started last year, and involves relocating utility lines and installing drainage infrastructure that dates back to the 1960s.
KRDO 13 was the first to report in a recent segment of The Road Warrior that the project will take a year longer than expected -- now scheduled for completion in 2026 -- because of unexpected challenges such as high levels of groundwater.
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Meanwhile, El Paso County will continue a similar closure Monday on the east side of the Hancock Expressway/Yucatan Drive intersection; the closure covers a block of Yucatan between Hancock and Cantrell Drive.
The closure began Friday but was paused for the weekend and will continue through April 26; in that project, workers are installing a new drainage pipe.
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Finally, if you're driving through Pueblo on Monday, remember that a major repaving of Interstate 25 through town starts; the ten-mile project will cost $16 million and be completed this fall.