PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The timing was late Thursday morning for KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior, who was on Bonforte Boulevard to investigate when street repaving would start there. A member of the paving team stated that work will commence on Friday and is expected to take up to two weeks to complete, weather permitting.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — For many drivers, the recent stripping of old, rubbery pavement on Woodmen Road was a major accomplishment. However, the best may be yet to come. On Sunday night, crews began repaving Woodmen from just east of the Academy Boulevard interchange, west across the Woodmen/Academy overpass, under the bridge above Interstate
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Residents in unincorporated areas of El Paso County may see faster snow removal on their roads and highways for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. On Tuesday, the county’s transportation department told KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior that it has virtually erased a worker
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On Monday, for the second time in a month, construction crews scheduled daytime lane closures for the ongoing 8th Street improvement project at the bridge across Fountain Creek. However, the difference between the two is that the closure did not occur last time, and is happening this time. City officials said that
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Well before dawn on Friday, workers began closing off some downtown streets, intersections, and even alleys and parking lots, to establish a secure perimeter for the 31st annual Chile & Frijoles Festival. However, fences, signs, and barricades aren’t enough to stop someone intent on causing harm by driving through an event
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Rainy weather that had been a problem on the mile-long Glider Loop, just south of Black Forest, ended up being somewhat of a blessing in the past two weeks. It influenced crews to change their initial plan to place a double chip-seal pavement and instead pave the road with
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — Several viewers have told KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior that they’re concerned about student safety along Mesa Ridge High School because of a perceived lack of speed enforcement by police. Early last month, as reported by The Road Warrior, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) reduced the speed limit from 55
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews are in their third month on the city’s biggest paving job of the season, so pardon their dust. They’re repaving a half mile of Justice Center Road, between US 50 and Grandview Lane, on the eastern edge of town. The two-lane street was last repaved in 1998 and had
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A traffic signal or prohibiting left turns could be in the future of an intersection where a crash into a fire hydrant two weeks ago snarled traffic and made a big mess. Todd Frisbie, the city’s head traffic engineer, said that his department is considering a traffic study at the
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The next step in the ongoing project to build five bridges along two highways will require lane closures for the next two weekends. The first closure begins at 5 p.m. on Friday and ends at 7 a.m. on Sunday, along a half-mile stretch of US 50, east of I-25 to the
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) — The drive to work at Charis Bible College was louder than usual on Thursday morning, but it brightened an otherwise sad day for Scott Little. Little was looking forward to meeting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was scheduled to speak on Thursday night at a college event, until his assassination
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — In the recent past, a rainy spring and summer like we’ve had this year would have occasionally closed the Siferd Boulevard/Date Street intersection because of flash flooding, and even required the emergency rescues of people trapped in their vehicles. The problem was that the intersection was in the middle of
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A dozen or so homeowners along a gravel road just south of Black Forest are finally getting what they’ve wanted all along. Asphalt pavement to eliminate slick, muddy conditions in wet weather on Glider Loop. County officials recently changed their original plan to apply a double chip-seal pavement to
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Two factors beyond officials’ control are delaying the construction of a new Union Avenue bridge on the south end of the historic downtown area. The bridge, built in 1925, is rated in poor condition; officials regularly inspect and perform maintenance to keep it safe for traffic. However, the structure over the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A private road connecting to several businesses on South Academy Boulevard is so popular that drivers continued to use it despite the presence of numerous, deep potholes. “They’ve been here for years,” a driver told KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior during a report on the situation in April. However, drivers
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) project that began in January and was initially scheduled for completion in June has encountered several delays and is now two months away from completion. Alex Trefry, a CSU spokesman, mentioned two reasons for the delays. “One is weather, all the rain we had this
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A vehicle crash at North Academy Boulevard and Half Turn Road, which “impacted a fire hydrant,” authorities said Tuesday, has shut down the intersection due to a sinkhole. As of 5 a.m. on Wednesday, one northbound lane of Academy had reopened to traffic, and all southbound lanes were open. On
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers on a half-mile stretch of South Academy Boulevard between Chelton Road and Astrozon Boulevard can expect slower travel and increased traffic congestion this week. An emergency water main repair will close half of the lanes along that busy street on the city’s southeast side. That work started at 9
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — An unusually designed but frequently used train crossing just south of downtown will close during the next year and be replaced by a new crossing a mile farther east. The crossing is located at the intersection of Las Vegas and Royer Streets, situated atop a small but steep hill that
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Dan Heberly lives along Beulah Avenue on the east side of the Colorado State Fairgrounds, but he’s not feeling neighborly toward fair officials, let alone city officials. Heberly, 72, said that the city hasn’t responded to several requests to resolve a flooding problem on the street that also affects his yard.
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