Colorado Springs reveals repair plan for newly-acquired segment of Bradley Road from El Paso County

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The city continues to expand its boundaries by acquiring a road segment in a growing area south of the airport, but that also is in poor condition.

City officials said that around a year ago, their engineering department approved assuming responsibility for part of Bradley Road, a half mile east of Powers Boulevard.

The city and county formerly shared maintenance responsibility for the segment, officials said, but the city decided that it made more sense to take over the road because of past and future annexations.

New homes are being built along the affected segment and to the northeast along Marksheffel Road.

With construction traffic and normal heavy traffic, repairing the deteriorating road has taken on a sense of urgency.

The city said that, instead of repaving the road as part of the 2C expanded paving program, its in-house paving team will handle the job this summer.

To keep the road quality consistent, officials said that they will repave not only the affected segment, but the county's segment east to Marksheffel -- a total distance of nearly two miles.

During our Road Warrior coverage, there have been two similar situations in which the city acquired roads where the jurisdiction was unclear: part of Siferd Boulevard, which is now the site of a major drainage project to prevent flash flooding; and part of Venetucci Boulevard, which the city began maintaining and may repave in the future.

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