COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The process of street repaving typically involves removing the old asphalt layer and replacing it with fresh asphalt but the progress will be different on some streets this summer. On Friday, the city demonstrated how it will recycle old asphalt, apply it and then cover it with a new asphalt
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EL PASO COUNTY Colo. (KRDO) — The mystery of the sudden closure of a small wooden bridge north of Calhan was explained by an El Paso County engineer Wednesday. Dan Gerhard, a county public works engineer, said that a recent routine inspection found evidence that the 75-year-old bridge — called a timber bridge — was
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — This has been a rough year for travel so far along Galley Road between Powers and Murray boulevards on the city’s east side. In January, the city closed Galley between East San Miguel Street and Moffat Circle to relocate utility lines and replace a Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) water line
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The U.S. Air Force Academy’s North Gate will be temporarily closed beginning July 15 and continuing through August 2 to all vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. The USAFA will be constructing a roundabout for at the North Gate as a part of their True North Commons project. Access to the academy
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The next phase of the ongoing widening of Marksheffel Road begins Monday and will require closing the east end of Barnes Road between Marksheffel and Antelope Ridge Drive into fall. The closure allows crews to lower the Marksheffel/Barnes intersection by eight feet to match the Marksheffel widening and to improve
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A state trooper says that Colorado law mandating how bright vehicle lights can be, and how many can be in use, is probably outdated for modern automobiles that have better technology and automatic features. “The level of enforcement won’t change until the law changes,” said Sgt. Patrick Rice, of the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On the last night of the holiday weekend, we saw the first major change in the safety improvement project on South Nevada Avenue that started in mid-May. Crews moved concrete barriers from inner lanes in a narrow configuration, to outer lanes in a wider configuration. The shift of barriers required closing
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — While the four-day Independence Day holiday will provide many of us with time away from work, it’ll be all hands on deck for the Colorado State Patrol. Troopers will be conducting saturation patrols to look for impaired drivers who could put other drivers at risk. Even though many people have
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) mentions two reasons why it expects “minimal” traffic impacts from the project to build an overpass interchange at the busy intersection of Powers Road and Airport Boulevard. “There’s less development around this site compared to previous overpass projects,” said CDOT engineer Wayne Pittman. “There’s
Continue ReadingOTERO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Black Hills Energy said that strong winds from severe storms overnight Tuesday knocked eight transmission power poles down onto US 50, leading authorities to close the highway in both directions between Fowler and Manzanola for most of the day Wednesday. The closure was first reported just before 5 a.m. on
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PENROSE, Colo. (KRDO) — Four months of construction ended Monday when a roundabout built by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) opened fully to traffic for the first time. CDOT confirmed the opening in a release Tuesday morning, stating that temporary traffic signals and barriers were removed late Monday. “The project isn’t done but we’re
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – UPDATE: Repairs were completed at 3 p.m. Monday; at times, traffic backed up to the Circle Drive/Lake Avenue interchange. After June was marked by lane closures and even full closures of Interstate 25 through the Fountain area, July begins with another lane closure that started late Monday morning. The Colorado
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. — Workers have finished a five-month, $5 million project to extend Indiana Avenue on the south side of town and provide drivers with a better east-west route to and from busy Highway 85/87 (Santa Fe Avenue). Officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday evening and the three-block stretch of Indiana opened to traffic the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Two bridges on Fillmore Street, just east of Interstate 25, were built in the 1960s and weren’t designed the increased traffic loads they bear today. City officials plan to replace both bridges within the next five to ten years, at an estimated cost of $45 million; one bridge crosses the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, (KRDO) — KRDO13’s The Road Warrior took to the roads in every sense of the word Wednesday, for the city’s annual Bike to Work Day event. Road Warrior Scott Harrison rented a bike from the Pike Ride app and visited some of the 44 breakfast stations — an all-time high — where
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A busy intersection already impacted by construction will be further affected this week by a sinkhole prevention project on the east side of Airport Road at Academy Boulevard. Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is investigating the beginning stages of a sinkhole in hopes of determining the cause and keeping it from
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Daniel Williams avoided serious injury Saturday when a large chuck of concrete pavement flew through the windshield of the car he drove on northbound Powers Boulevard, just south of the Aeroplaza Drive intersection. “It went through the passenger side,” he said, as he held the the piece of concrete. “It
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Although he has yet to be officially identified by authorities, the family of Ronald Ray Valdez, 34, confirmed Saturday to KRDO 13 that he was the man shot to death by police officers Wednesday night. The details from police: At around 7:45 p.m., they they responded to a report of a
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — For the second time this month, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will close I-25 in both directions between Mesa Ridge Parkway and Santa Fe Avenue this week, during the next few overnight periods. CDOT spokesperson Amber Shipley said Thursday that equipment issues have put the project to finish repaving and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — After rain stopped just minutes before the start of the Western Street Breakfast downtown, spectators had two things on their minds. Street closures and parking. People new to the annual event may not have realized that some streets were temporarily closed to make room for it; barricades were set up
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