EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Six years after KRDO13 learned of it and began reporting on it, crews have finished repairs to a half-mile-long drainage ditch that had deteriorated and contributed to local flooding for decades. A month ago, workers completed a five-month project to replace the concrete liner in the ditch that parallels
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials announced Wednesday that they have received funding from a state grant to finance a continued extension of the town’s Creek Walk trail that parallels Manitou Avenue and Fountain Creek. The quarter-of-a-million-dollar award comes from the Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Revitalizing Main Streets program; it will pay for extending
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) — Roads remained wet in Teller County but not icy and slick as they were Tuesday; light snowflakes fell during the early morning hours Wednesday and intensified at midday. There’s still a lot of plowing activity on sidewalks, neighborhood streets and parking lots, even though much of the accumulated snow continues
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TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — What started as rain and wet roads on US 24 through Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs in El Paso County, turned to blizzard-like conditions southwest of Woodland Park in Teller County. Roads quickly became slushy, then icy as wind-blown snow moved through the area late Tuesday morning and continued through
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — You may tend to think of water main projects as happening only on major streets, such as the current project on Galley Road and another scheduled to start this fall on 8th Street. Actually, however, most of the more than 60,000 linear feet of replaced water mains from Colorado Springs
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The main route to the Manitou Incline and Cog Railway experienced slightly more traffic congestion Monday because of a project to remove several trees that were too close to the street. Manitou officials announced Friday that the downhill (southbound) side of Ruxton Avenue — a narrow corridor on the west
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — During the day, the half-mile of 8th Street between Cimarron Street and Motor City Drive becomes one of the city’s busiest, with more than 30,000 vehicles traveling on it. Get ready for more congestion during the next year. City officials have announced a $12 million, multifaceted project that will make
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many drivers are looking forward to the repaving of six miles of South Nevada Avenue and north Highway 115, a project that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced had officially begun on March 31. So why haven’t we seen any fresh asphalt being applied yet? KRDO 13’s The Road
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On Wednesday night, just three nights after a weekend closure of Marksheffel Road ended, the busy northeast-side corridor will close again for the weekend. This time, a different section will be affected — three-quarters of a mile between Barnes Road and Stetson Hills Boulevard — and start sooner that before.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Neighbors and drivers eagerly await the day when two major construction projects on the east side of town will be completed, and they’ll no longer have to detour around a road closure or squeeze into two lanes instead of four. The projects currently are affecting Galley Road between Murray and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers were either curious about them or hated them; the metal barriers that closed the westbound right lane of busy Austin Bluffs Parkway between Union Boulevard and Goldenrod Drive. Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) installed them last August to protect workers and traffic during a project to relocate a nearby, above-ground
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A full closure overnight Thursday on north Marksheffel Road will continue between Friday night and Monday morning, as part of an ongoing widening project. The closure was to start at 7 p.m. and end at 5:30 a.m. on Marksheffel between Dublin Boulevard and Stetson Hills Boulevard; that segment will remain
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — The threat of severe erosion along Fountain Creek led officials to close a section of a neighborhood street five years ago; now, neighbors wonder if the expected completion of a $6.2 million mitigation project will lead to the street’s reopening soon. The Fountain Creek Watershed District (FCWD) has overseen the project
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — We often hear of highways being built, repaired or repaved but we hear less often about efforts to keep highways clean and free of debris. This week, however, we can see cleaning operations along seven miles of I-25 in Pueblo, with Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) crews using a street-sweeping machine
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers bracing for two nights of closures this week on busy Dublin Boulevard near the Peterson Road intersection received an unexpected break. City officials announced in a Monday afternoon release that they were postponing the $15 million Dublin Improvements project for two weeks, until early next month; no reason was
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — On Monday, for the second time in a week, officials have closed a road at a creek crossing to repair damage caused by flooding in June 2023. The closure became effective just before 8 a.m. It’s a situation that KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior has been following since repairs
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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Residents in Pueblo West can now see tangible progress in the long-conceived plan to build a road connecting this community to the west end of Pueblo. Looking east at the intersection of Joe Martinez Boulevard and Purcell Boulevard, a path of blacktop winds through 2,300 acres of the Honor Farm
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The overnight Wednesday closure of three blocks of Motor Way is a sign that the corridor and safety improvement project near Interstate 25, along South Nevada Avenue and South Tejon Street, is nearing completion. During the closure between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m., crews installed new street signs and repainted
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials said that they’re not sure when the interchange at US 24 and Peterson Road was built, but some longtime residents believe it happened during the 1960s. A much-needed upgrade is planned for the interchange just outside the north gate of Peterson Space Force Base. “To me, it’s been
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials plan to reopen a segment of JD Johnson Road on Wednesday, for the first time since closing it because of flood damage in June 2023. On the same day, Garrett Road — just around the corner from JD Johnson — will close for two months because of similar
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