Tag: getting there

Is the FREX commuter bus service to Denver worth saving? That’s the question the Colorado Springs City Council likely will have to answer in the coming weeks, as it struggles to make cuts to cover an $8.7 million budget shortfall caused by plummeting sales tax revenue. In prosperous times, the answer might be easy. The…

Despite the new higher speed limit on Interstate 25 through Colorado Springs, it isn’t all clear sailing for motorists. The contractor that rebuilt and widened the interstate two years ago, a $150 million project called COSMIX, is working to correct a thorny problem near the Rockrimmon/North Nevada exit. Northbound interstate traffic in that area has…

Colorado’s network of roads, bridges and dams is decaying, as time, weather and neglect slowly erode the asphalt, steel and concrete used after World War II to construct a modern state. And the deterioration is only going to get worse. That’s the grim conclusion of a group of professionals who help design and build Colorado’s…

In the midst of a grim economy, lower gas prices have been a small but real comfort. Just don’t expect them to last forever. That’s the new-year prognostication of Harlan Ochs, a gentleman who has been in the oil and gas business for 51 years. He and brother Ken co-own and manage Acorn Petroleum, a…

Anti-tax activist and all-around rabble-rouser Douglas Bruce called The Gazette this week to complain about motorcycle cops writing a spate of tickets on Dec. 19, a Friday, in a construction zone near his home. Bruce said the three cops were handing out tickets to motorists who apparently didn’t see a sign forbidding a left turn…

City traffic engineers decided a few years ago that improvements have to be made on a six-block stretch of East Platte Avenue bordered by stately elms – and bedeviled by a higher-than-normal number of accidents.Now the time has come to decide just how extensive the improvements should be between Hancock Avenue and Union Boulevard.The four-lane…

If you’re one of the thousands of Coloradans who have been besieged by irritating, out-of-state phone calls from slimeballs claiming to offer an extended warranty on your automobile, take heart. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is on the case – and he’s riding with his posse – attorneys general from 25 other states. If you’re…

It looks unlikely Colorado Springs will receive any state funding for a proposed transit center in the urban renewal area south of downtown, a development likely to make it more difficult for local officials to realize the ambitious project. The city hoped it would get a $12 million grant from the Colorado Transportation Commission to…

Despite a floundering economy, the agency that funds many road and transit projects in the region expects to spend about the same amount of money in 2009 as it did this year. The proposed budget for the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority predicts the sales tax approved by voters in 2004 will raise $70.8 million…

Jeez, you might be asking, how long has it been since crews started building the interchange at Austin Bluffs Parkway and Union Boulevard? Well, let’s put it this way. The same month work started on the $35.7 million intersection, President Bush delivered a State of the Union speech with these words:  “A future of hope…