Tag: getting there

The Colorado Springs Police Department has completed its switch from wild to mild, replacing its fleet of classic Harley-Davidson police bikes with sleeker Honda bikes equipped with ABS braking.The department’s last seven Harleys were sold to Fay Myers, a large Denver motorcycle dealership that will supply the five Honda ST1300 models to replace them.The department…

The city has hit an unexpected snag in its plan to reconstruct the problematic intersection at Constitution Avenue and Circle Drive: No one wants to do the work for the money the city has to spend. Andy Garton, senior civil engineer with the city, said this week that four bids from qualified contractors were recently…

The city has hit an unexpected snag in its plan to reconstruct the problematic intersection at Constitution Avenue and Circle Drive: No one wants to do the work for the money the city has to spend. Andy Garton, senior civil engineer with the city, said this week that four bids from qualified contractors were recently…

Everyone who drives in the region knows there’s at least one knot head on the road with them at any one time. The problem has always been spotting them before you get caught in their havoc. In a month, thanks to optic fiber, drivers will have that chance on Academy Boulevard. When the switch is…

Unlike many motorists who seem to take glee in cutting their own trail on city streets, Mary Thurston is a drive-between-the-lines kind of gal.And she’s just not seeing them.”The lack of street striping is a constant pet peeve of mine,” she said recently. “I see huge strips of asphalt with no stripes all around town.…

Someone excitedly contacted Getting There this week, saying it looked like work was finally being done to connect Centennial Boulevard from Fillmore Street to the Fontanero Street exit on Interstate 25. Nah. What our excitable boy saw was, indeed, a short stretch of paved Centennial south of Fillmore Street. But it was built with private…