COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Even neighbors who live near it didn’t know what was happening, and it took KRDO13’s The Road Warrior parts of four days to find out, too.
Many passing drivers also wondered why a block of Cheyenne Road, north of Lake Avenue, had been closed on Friday, with a huge crane in place, a large excavation into the street, and crews working there under nighttime lights.
It wasn’t until late Monday morning that Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) confirmed that it was in charge of the project to expand a transmission vault.
Think of it as the electrical version of a water vault — similar to the underground structure to regulate water pressure that CSU built this summer at the Academy/Meadowland Boulevard intersection.
In the case of the transmission vault, CSU is expanding an existing vault containing a variety of electrical equipment.
The expansion will allow crews to perform maintenance work in one area while keeping a second area energized to continue supplying power to customers…