Author: Bill Mckeown
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Gravel road upkeep on chopping block
El Paso County would not spread gravel this year on any of its 1,200 miles of unpaved roads if commissioners accept a proposal to cut $1 million from the transportation department’s budget.Chuck McCulloh, the highway division manager for El Paso County, said the department planned to take up old dirt and put down gravel on…
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Let a bus driver brave the Ute Pass for you
Good news for the poor souls who commute up and down Ute Pass, braving insane drivers and using $4 a gallon gas: Possibly by October, they can hop on sleek express buses that will run several times a day between Colorado Springs and Woodland Park.Take that, Sultan of Brunei!(If you don’t know, the Sultan has…
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GETTING THERE: Let a bus driver brave the Ute Pass for you
Good news for the poor souls who commute up and down Ute Pass, braving insane drivers and using $4 a gallon gas: Possibly by October, they can hop on sleek express buses that will run several times a day between Colorado Springs and Woodland Park.Take that, Sultan of Brunei!(If you don’t know, the Sultan has…
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GETTING THERE: ‘Hard winter’ lifts for businesses near bridge on Cimarron
The nearly seven-month closure of the Cimarron Street bridge was surely an inconvenience for many. But for some, the closure of the main route from downtown to the west side was serious business – or more precisely, a lack of it.Owners of a variety of businesses near the bridge expressed relief late this week that…
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Out of town on the rails
It took mighty, steel-drivin’ men to build railroad tracks along Colorado’s Front Range in the 19th century.It might take manicured money men and smoothtalking negotiators to relocate them in the 21st.That’s the inescapable fact confronting the state’s Transportation Department and two major railroads as they look at an idea a lot of people find appealing:…
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Opinions run 2 ways on Tejon
Tejon Street now runs two ways – and so do opinions about its new alignment. An informal, completely unscientific poll last week on gazettedev.gazette.com elicited 67 votes. The results: 73 percent thought a two-way Tejon has created a mess. Twenty-seven percent like it. A little lopsided, maybe. But then there are the opinions of the…
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GETTING THERE: Opinions run 2 ways on Tejon
Tejon Street now runs two ways – and so do opinions about its new alignment. An informal, completely unscientific poll last week on gazettedev.gazette.com elicited 67 votes. The results: 73 percent thought a two-way Tejon has created a mess. Twenty-seven percent like it. A little lopsided, maybe. But then there are the opinions of the…
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Is 2-way Tejon a terror or a treat?
It’s been just over a month since the Great Tejon Switchover, the much-hyped change from one-way traffic to two-way on downtown’s main shopping street. The Downtown Partnership, a coalition of business owners, asked for the change to a two-way Tejon Street. The group wanted to create a more urban environment that would get people out…
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GETTING THERE: Is 2-way Tejon a terror or a treat?
It’s been just over a month since the Great Tejon Switchover, the much-hyped change from one-way traffic to two-way on downtown’s main shopping street. The Downtown Partnership, a coalition of business owners, asked for the change to a two-way Tejon Street. The group wanted to create a more urban environment that would get people out…
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Pastor blesses bikes
Despite what your mother may have told you, motorcycles are not the favored transportation mode on the Highway to Hell.In fact, Satan – an infamous killjoy – probably doesn’t even ride.But Father Mike Butler does. And he says bikes are A-OK with his boss.In fact, Butler, pastor of Our Lady of the Pines Catholic Church…