Tag: getting there
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GETTING THERE: Some city authorities still desire streetcars
The last electric streetcar clacked and clanged its way down a Colorado Springs street in 1932. There are some folks who would like to hear that unique sound once again reverberate off downtown buildings – and they plan to do something about it. A coalition that includes the Downtown Partnership, the Downtown Development Authority, the…
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GETTING THERE: Panel says roads are at ‘crisis’ level
Coloradans need to cough up $1.5 billion – probably through new fees and a higher state sales tax – to fix roads and bridges that have deteriorated to a “crisis” level and fund mass transit as oil supplies decline. That was the pitch last week by some members of Gov. Bill Ritter’s Blue Ribbon Transportation…
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GETTING THERE: Electric scooter really scoots
An interesting alternative to the gas-guzzling Yukon sucking you dry is now on the showroom floor at Rocky Mountain Cycle Plaza: an electric scooter capable of mixing it up on city streets. The Vectrix scooter gets the equivalent of 357 miles per gallon per electrical charge, which costs about 50 cents, said Steve Clark, general…
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GETTING THERE: Bicyclists have more road to roam
Colorado Springs will have added 17.4 miles of bicycle lanes by the time paving and striping season ends in late October. The new lanes, complete with striping and signs, will expand the miles of city bike lanes to 71.45, an increase of more than 30 percent. Kristin Bennett, the city’s senior transportation planner, said the…
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GETTING THERE: $4 bus trips from Springs to Woodland Park this fall
Express bus service between Colorado Springs and Woodland Park will begin Nov. 10, after the Colorado Springs City Council this week gave its consent – on a 5-4 vote – to $4 one-way fares between the cities. The service will be provided by Colorado’s Springs’ Mountain Metropolitan Transit. The 15 round trips a day at…
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GETTING THERE: Readers’ 2 cents on commuter rail debate
Last week’s column about a study on the feasibility of high-speed commuter rail on either or both the Interstate 25 and 70 corridors provoked a lot of thoughtful responses on gazettedev.gazette.com. Since readers will be among the folks paying for such rail service should it prove feasible, here’s a selection of comments (edited for space).Aceventurapd:…
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GETTING THERE: Engineers get creative for new road interchange
A remnant of the Old Denver Highway running east of the Air Force Academy and west of Interstate 25 doesn’t look like much.The decades-old asphalt, about 20 feet wide, is sun-baked and cracked, with weeds and native grasses taking root in its fissures.It looks exactly like what it is: a longabandoned two-lane road that decades…
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GETTING THERE: City plans to widen hill on Fillmore
Jeez. Those city road engineers. What a bunch of killjoys. Next summer, they plan to water down the spine-tingling thrill of navigating Fillmore Street west of Interstate 25, aka “Suicide Hill.” Engineers will put in a third lane up and down the improbably steep thoroughfare from just west of the interstate up to Centennial Boulevard.…
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GETTING THERE: Chemical scarcity for asphalt gets sticky
Colorado highway engineers are scrambling to find ways to complete dozens of major road projects in Colorado, including two in this region, in the wake of a severe shortage of a chemical used to make asphalt more durable.The Colorado Department of Transportation has said almost three dozen projects statewide are threatened by the scarcity of…
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GETTING THERE: Hydrogen: The answer to our energy needs?
Jesus turned wine into water, the Bible tells us.Now, according to numerous Web sites, we mere mortals can turn water into gas. And it doesn’t require a miracle – just $69.95 for an instruction booklet, some cheap tubing and a Mason jar. It’s the “best-kept secret the energy lords have been keeping from you,” says…