COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — City officials recently revealed that next year, they will address a previous paving method that didn’t work on a stretch of busy Woodmen Road.
It’s a stretch that many drivers have noticed and complained about.
Corey Farkas, the city’s operations and maintenance manager for public works, said that Woodmen — from just east of the Academy Boulevard interchange, to the Woodmen Court intersection separating East Woodmen from West Woodmen — was paved with rubber from old tires mixed into the asphalt.
“We understand that it’s a bad road,” he said. “A lot of folks think it’s a chip seal. So, there was a chip seal on either side of it. Over top of that (Academy) bridge is that old tire rubber asphalt. (Crews will) finish off the tire rubber asphalt over that bridge that’s failing. They need to do some work there.”
Farkas said that Woodmen, from Woodmen Court to Campus Drive, is already on next year’s paving list; the city wants to add the eastern segment from Campus to the Sam’s Club entrance — which is also at the intersection of Olga Willson Way.