COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A state trooper visited KRDO 13 this week to answer a variety of questions posed by viewers in the fifth month of The Road Warrior coverage. Many of the topics posed to Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Patrick Rice relate to why there isn’t more enforcement of traffic violations such as
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers traveling southbound on I-25 between Garden of the Gods Road and Centennial Boulevard may have noticed a yellow paint line in the middle of the center lane recently. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) said that the paint accidentally leaked from a machine that paints lane markers on highways
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ORDWAY, Colo. (KRDO) — This small town 50 miles east of Pueblo is having big issues with roads and poor drainage. But resolving those issues isn’t easy in a community with a population of just under 1,100 people. “This is the poorest county in the U.S.,” said Mayor Jerry Barber. “There’s not much money to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The project to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety at a congested interchange just south of downtown is barely a week old and has already drawn strong criticism from a handful of affected business owners. Since the project began on several blocks of Nevada Avenue and adjacent Tejon Street, south
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — As The Road Warrior starts its fifth month of coverage, Monday’s report focuses not on what’s on the road, but what’s above it. Overhead street lights. Several viewers have asked why they see so many non-working street lights across Colorado Springs, and why it takes so long to repair them
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (KRDO13) — Travelers ran into delays Friday morning as traffic at I-25 and Interquest Parkway was slowed due to an Amazon truck that caught fire. The incident happened around 5 a.m., between Exit 156 at Northgate Boulevard and Exit 153 at Interquest Parkway, Mile Point 153, according to the Colorado Department of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Colorado Springs Police are investigating a deadly shooting at the Stone Canyon Apartments, located at 240 North Murray Boulevard, on the city’s east side. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD), officers arrived just before 10:30 p.m. Thursday, and confirmed a total of 3 people were shot. Police say that
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The owner of the High Country Veterinary Hospital, just south of the Colorado Springs city limits, believes that the nearby South Academy Boulevard widening project is among several issues negatively affecting her business. Dr. Kelsey Moses owns and operates the business that she acquired in 2018; she said that
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Late Tuesday morning, city crews suddenly removed upright street markers called delineators from the intersection of Cheyenne Boulevard and Woodburn Street. The reflective yellow and white tubes were installed last summer as part of a study, prompted partly by citizen feedback, to learn if they could slow traffic down and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Along with ongoing sidewalk improvements, Cheyenne Boulevard in southwest Colorado Springs is the site of two other projects that have changed traffic patterns and required adjustment by nearby residents and drivers. A Colorado Springs Utilities project to replace two existing natural gas lines started three weeks ago, just east of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A congested area of town known for heavy traffic, significant homeless activity and bicycle and scooter riders, is getting safety upgrades from a project that starts Monday and continues through the end of the year. “The project itself came out of a number of neighborhood and traffic studies, so we’re
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Road Warrior has learned that numerous and seriously bad potholes have recently been quickly and quietly fixed at two locations that generated regular complaints from drivers. In a report last month, The Road Warrior brought attention to a pair of areas — two access roads connecting to Walmart on
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — We now know which streets will be the first repaved on this year’s city repaving list that was revealed late Thursday morning. Eastcrest Circle, near the intersection of Pikes Peak Avenue and Murray Boulevard, was the site of an event hosted by city officials announcing the list at 10 a.m.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Project manager Brett Hartzell said that the $71 million project to widen the south end of South Academy Boulevard remains on schedule despite unexpected repairs to the bridge over Fountain Creek. Those repairs — which resulted in lane closures and restrictions after the need was identified around Thanksgiving —
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A spokesperson for Safeway in Fountain said that potholes in the parking lot will soon be repaired after KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior recently made the grocery aware of complaints from customers. “Thanks for letting us know,” Healther Halpape, the store’s manager of communications and public affairs responded in an
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — Although new pedestrian-activated crossing signals aren’t operating yet, Saturday still provided an opportunity to see how people attending the annual Blossom Parade would react to the six new crossings, and center medians, on US 50. The project won’t be officially finished until just before Memorial Day weekend. The event usually
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — While Colorado Springs is scheduled to reveal the streets on its paving list for this season, Pueblo is already rolling along on its third week of resurfacing. That’s thanks to the Steel City’s warmer, drier climate. The city has so far paved two streets downtown: Alan Hamel Avenue, near the Pueblo
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FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — In the two months since construction began to build a roundabout at the busy interchange of US 50 and Highway 115 in Penrose, the full traffic impacts are becoming clear. Waits of up to 15 minutes or longer are common, especially during rush hour periods, as traffic in four directions
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — An inch doesn’t seem like much, but it’s making a big difference for vehicles going in and out of the Oasis Mobile Country Club — a mobile home community for senior citizens along Prairie Avenue on the city’s south side. To accommodate the city’s repaving of the busy street last summer,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — An older area of the city with more of a rural feel is getting some modern conveniences that neighbors have asked for. A project that began in January is building and improving concrete sidewalks, curbs, gutters and intersection ramps along two miles of Cheyenne Boulevard and Cheyenne Road — two
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