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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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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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — UPDATE: Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) announced early Monday afternoon that this project is now delayed. In a statement released just before 2 p.m. Monday, CSU said that lane closures on two of three westbound lanes of Austin Bluffs Parkway between Goldenrod Drive and the exit ramp to Union Boulevard will
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Currently, the closest thing to a highway roundabout in southern Colorado was built several years ago, on an exit ramp at the junction of US 50 and Highway 115 in Fremont County. But the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is preparing to construct a traffic circle on a major
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado State Patrol (CSP) says that two people have died in a crash, which has shut down southbound Marksheffel Road at North Carefree Circle. The CSP says that the crash happened around 7:47 a.m. between a pickup truck and an SUV. The pickup truck caught on fire, and two
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Nearly a year after crews finished building a new bridge on Voyager Parkway, they’re preparing to construct three more in the latest phase of the continued extension of Powers Boulevard north to Interstate 25. The new extension segment will eventually be laid out under the Voyager bridge and connect to
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Around 40 neighbors on the city’s northwest side recently attended a public meeting to learn more about two upcoming projects designed to improve travel there. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior first reported on the projects in early December: An extension of Sun Mountain Boulevard, north from 24th to 31st streets; and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Snow accumulation and sub-zero temperatures on Monday morning led officials to postpone one of two planned road closures related to construction projects. The closures were officially to start at 6 a.m. on a three-mile stretch of Las Vegas Street between Janitell Road and Highway 85/87, and on the eastbound on-ramp
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews with the county and with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) routinely use salt brine to pre-treat streets and roads before winter storms arrive. However, in preparation for this late-week storm, the county applied the brine, but CDOT decided against it. The difference in strategy, apparently, relates to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — John Wei lives in the Pinecliff neighborhood north of the Interstate 25/Garden of the Gods Road interchange, and recently contacted The Road Warrior about what he believes is a safety concern in the area. Wei said that the situation is gradually worsening around the three-way intersection of Rusina Road, Popes
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials said that temporary closures are possible starting Wednesday along a narrow road at the entrance to Rampart Park on the city’s northeast side. A city crew will install an underground drainage pipe along 300 feet of an open channel between the road, a sloped buffer zone, and a retaining
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