COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A familiar sight across Fountain Creek at the north end of 8th Street has passed into history, at least for the present. Early Friday morning, crews removed the Midland Trail pedestrian bridge on the east side of the street, near the US 24 Frontage Road. Workers used power saws to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Some areas of the city have needed repaving or other infrastructure repairs more than others. This season, it’s the southwest side’s turn. So many projects are in such proximity to each other that the detour around one may bring drivers within just a few blocks of another. Generally, traffic congestion
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With all of the road-related construction in Colorado Springs, we often see erosion control bags used by crews to prevent sediment from washing away and clogging storm drains and ditches. However, those same bags may have increased street flooding during our recent rainy weather. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior spoke
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — While the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is responsible for repaving the six-mile stretch of South Nevada Avenue between Brookside Street and Fort Carson’s main gate, the city is responsible for the block north of Nevada to Motor Way. The city will repave that block to coincide with CDOT’s project;
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Major construction work on 8th Street that The Road Warrior first reported on last month began Monday morning. The affected area is roughly a half-mile stretch between the US 24 Frontage Road and Motor City Drive, on the city’s southwest side. However, the first of the project’s three phases will
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The county has nine wooden bridges, also called timber bridges, that are at least 75 years old but remain in use. A timber bridge on McClelland Road, just north of US 24 and slightly west of Calhan, will be the first of that group to be demolished and replaced.
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The Fountain Fort Carson football team is getting ready. They can’t hit the field yet but they can hit the weight room. When they do take the field, several players will be wearing sleek new helmets, “It almost looks futuristic. Like a spaceship on your head,” says Myren Johnson. The helmets are part of the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A year has passed since a controversy in the Ivywild neighborhood over white and yellow lane markers called delineators that were installed at two intersections along Cheyenne Boulevard. And now, there are new developments since KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior broke the story in May 2024. Delineators have been removed
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — The east end of East Main Street is clear of construction machinery and “Road Closed” signs for the first time since a project to relocate a natural gas line started late last year. Unfortunately for neighbors and traffic, that doesn’t mean the project is finished. Crews reopened the affected stretch
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Matt Mahoney is happy where he’s at. This is his fifth year playing for the Colorado Springs Switchbacks, “It Is my ninth year playing, and I would say the goals and what I want to achieve are a little different. You know, earlier in your career you try to make a name for yourself, trying
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The four-laned Banning Lewis Parkway (BLP) now has a shorter and more direct route in and out of the growing, sprawling community of Banning Lewis Ranch (BLR) in the city’s northeastern corner. At 10:30 a.m. Monday, city officials opened BLP’s connection to Woodmen Road, giving residents an option to using
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Vehicle collisions with deer can often result in injuries, and occasionally deaths, to both drivers and animals. However, Brandon Hystad has experienced two such crashes since Thanksgiving and although he and his passengers weren’t hurt, the cars he drove at the time didn’t fare well. “In the first one, last
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — “Will it rain during the graduation ceremony?” and “Will the Thunderbirds fly?” were likely the two big questions being asked in the hours before Thursday morning’s commencement exercises at the Air Force Academy. Several hours before the ceremony’s scheduled start, overnight rain had stopped but clouds hung low over the
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — The hope was that the town’s $3 million Main Street Revitalization project would have been finished a month ago, in time for the 87th annual Music & Blossom Festival. But that didn’t happen, for several reasons beyond the control of workers — such as weather and surprises not uncommon when
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — City officials announced late last week that they are delaying two closures on busy Dublin Boulevard, west of Marksheffel Road, that were to start Tuesday morning and continue through the end of July. The closures were to be at the intersection of Dublin and Peterson Road, and on several blocks
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — During the past few weeks, drivers on Highway 115, on the south end of the city, have noticed something they’ve wanted for years. New asphalt pavement from the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). It’s the latest step in a project KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior first reported a year ago
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The time between deciding which street to be repaved, doing the concrete work required beforehand, and then applying the new layer of asphalt can be a frustrating wait for drivers and neighbors, but brings relief and satisfaction when the work is finished. Last week, residents in the hilly Broadmoor Bluffs
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — From a road and driver perspective, two noteworthy changes have been made since last year at Rainbow Falls, a popular tourist attraction just west of Manitou Springs along Serpentine Drive. First, as previously reported by KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior, The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the county
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Pueblo County has unfinished business. After coming up just short in last year’s state championship game, they’ve stormed back with a 23 and two record and the top seed in class 4A. And now they’ve got another crack at a state title, “Shoot, since I was little. I mean, that’s what you want. Playing the big
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s wasn’t described as an emergency repair job, but town officials said that a repaving project Thursday on the main route through town had a high priority. The work done by crews was actually less repaving and more filling large potholes on a block of Manitou Avenue between Pawnee Avenue
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