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) – The Colorado Springs Fire Department said that law enforcement reported a house fire at the corner of East Pikes Peak and Dudley avenues, just before 5 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11. Fire departments response “There was a law enforcement presence before we got here,” said Ashley Franco, a CSFD spokesperson.
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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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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Northbound drivers on the north end of 8th Street likely will have mixed feelings about the latest changes in the ongoing improvements project there. The good news is that crews reopened the two eastbound lanes on the US 24 Frontage Road between 8th Street and Cimarron Street (US 24), as
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — One of the first Road Warrior reports when the beat started in February 2024 was on the county’s plan to spend nearly $11 million to make safety upgrades at two dozen crosswalks. Joshua Palmer, the county’s head engineer, recently revealed that funding for the project is now available, that
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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is currently designing a plan to make numerous safety and traffic upgrades at the Exit 108 interchange on I-25, approximately five miles north of Pueblo. The exit takes westbound drivers onto Purcell Boulevard and serves as a shortcut to Pueblo West, while the eastbound
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many drivers may be pleasantly surprised on Monday to find that a popular route between Academy and Powers boulevards has partially reopened for the first time in nearly two years. On Friday afternoon, crews reopened the left lanes of Galley Road between Murray Boulevard and Wooten Road after completing a
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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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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – I-25 has reopened in both directions after Tuesday’s deadly crash shut down the highway south of Pueblo for more than 12 hours. The Pueblo County Coroner has identified the four people killed as David Kirscht and his adult son, Scott Kirscht, both of Walsenburg, Mary Sue Thayer of Rye, and
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