EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Driving around the Pikes Peak region this summer, it’s easy to find crews performing concrete work to prepare for repaving streets for this year and future years.
Some residents wish that the broken sidewalks in front of their homes could be fixed as quickly and efficiently.
Two viewers recently contacted KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior to share frustrations about sidewalk damage in front of their homes.
One of them is Barbara Emerson, a 78-year-old widow who said that she and her late husband were the first to build a home in the Villa Loma neighborhood of northeast Colorado Springs.
Over time, her sidewalks haven’t fared well.
“I’ve been waiting for several years to have them repaired,” she said. “There are a lot of people who walk on them, or walk their dogs, and I’m afraid of someone tripping and falling, and getting hurt.”…