COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — For many drivers, the recent stripping of old, rubbery pavement on Woodmen Road was a major accomplishment.
However, the best may be yet to come.
On Sunday night, crews began repaving Woodmen from just east of the Academy Boulevard interchange, west across the Woodmen/Academy overpass, under the bridge above Interstate 25, to the Woodmen/Rockrimmon Boulevard intersection.
So far, workers are paving westbound lanes from the Sam’s Club to slightly east of Academy.
Rain on Monday and Tuesday nights slowed paving progress.
As first reported by KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior in early August, crews are replacing traditional asphalt with an experimental material called stone matrix asphalt (SMA)…