COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers now have some relief from the twists and narrow lanes they’ve endured during the ongoing construction project along 1.5 miles of I-25 between Fillmore Street and Garden of the Gods Road.
Two weeks ago, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) opened the three rebuilt northbound lanes; they’re wider, straighter, and feature a wider shoulder and new guardrail.
An interesting aspect of the new lanes is that they come to within only a few feet of Sinton Road, a frontage road along the east side of that segment of I-25.
That raises the question of how CDOT will find room to build the acceleration and deceleration lanes that will be designed to reduce the traffic bottleneck in that area and improve traffic flow by giving drivers more time to merge onto and off of the freeway.
Patti Henschen, a CDOT engineer, said that the final alignment for those lanes has yet to be finalized.
“The auxiliary lanes won’t be available until the median work is complete and the lanes are put into their final configuration next summer,” she explained. “We’ll have all three lanes, the auxiliary lanes, and we’ll have one final overlay throughout the project.”…