COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Although the intersection of Marksdheffel and Peaceful Valley Roads is in the Colorado Springs city limits, the neighborhoods around it are in unincorporated El Paso County, and the area is slightly north of the Fountain city limits.
Those are interesting aspects of a project that began on Tuesday to install traffic signals at the intersection.
For the next six to eight weeks, traffic on Peaceful Valley will be unable to cross Marksheffel or turn there, and Marksheffel drivers will be unable to turn onto Peaceful Valley.
Todd Frisbie, the city’s head traffic engineer, said that residents of a growing new neighborhood west of the intersection asked for signals to be installed there because of heavy traffic that made turns onto and off Marksheffel challenging.
“We did a study, probably a few years ago,” he explained. “There was a little confusion at the intersection because you had a right (turn) in and a right out on the west side of the intersection. On the east side of the intersection, you had a full movement. I think it just added a level of complexity.”
The first step in the $500,000 project is to remove the right-turn-only median on the west side of the intersection…