Author: by garrison wells garrison.wells@gazette.com
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New Colorado Springs interchange is part of national move to new design
Gilbert Chlewicki is a transportation superstar. Which means almost nothing, unless you are in a city where there is a diverging diamond interchange – part of a new wave of ways to get around a heavily trafficked intersection that’s taking the country by storm. It’s his fault. In 2000, at the tender age of 23,…
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Suthers to Pikes Peak grads: Be a good ancestor
About 350 students who took part in Pikes Peak Community College’s graduation ceremonies Saturday were sent off with a pair of messages: Become good ancestors and meet change head-on. “This goal of becoming a good ancestor has helped me focus on important things in life,” said Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who was the keynote…
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Police: Colorado Springs shoplifter scratched, sprayed store worker
A woman spotted shoplifting from a Wal-Mart store Saturday punched, scratched and then sprayed a loss prevention officer in the face with pepper spray before fleeing with a friend in a Toyota Echo, police say. Colorado Springs police responded to a call to the Wal-Mart at 1575 Space Center Dr. at 2:40 p.m. The loss…
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Cure for I-25/Fillmore interchange is on the way
The Fillmore Street/I-25 interchange got a $2 million gift. That gift guarantees the $13 million highway project will be fully funded. “It was originally an $11 million project,” said Jason Wilkinson, spokesman for the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments. “Then the Colorado Department of Transportation came back a few months ago and it ended…
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Renowned inventor gives tips to innovators while being honored in Manitou Springs
Eat just one meal a day, deprive yourself of oxygen underwater and ingest a brain food concoction of your own creation and you, too, might someday lay claim to being one of the world’s top inventors. Those are among the secrets of Yoshiro Nakamatsu, the brain behind more than 3,400 patents that led to solar…
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Colorado Springs plans to build more roundabouts, instead of traffic lights, at intersectoins
Roundabouts, the circular intersection islands that replace stop signs and stoplights, are lauded by traffic engineers because they cost less and are safer than intersections with signal lights. And it’s a good thing drivers have slowly been getting used to them, because Colorado Springs plans to rely on more roundabouts. At least 13 roundabouts are…
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Cinco de Mayo a chance for Colorado Springs residents to celebrate heritage with food, music, cars
Jose Soto put the finishing touches on his 1963 Chevrolet Impala convertible, the mirrors placed so viewers could see the car’s under carriage. A little thing, perhaps, but critical if he was going to win the car show. Last year, he placed first in his class and won Best of Show. At one end of…
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Black Forest fire lesson is mitigation works – when everyone does it
One of the major lessons from the Black Forest fire was that mitigation worked. A good example was Cathedral Pines, where the upscale community, including the developer, worked to mitigate wildfire risk. It paid off, said Keith Worley, forester with Forestree Development. He is also past president of Pikes Peak Wildfire Prevention Partners, which presented…
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Ramblin’ Man: Orange cones – traffic nuisance or moneymaker?
Wealth, as wealthy folks know, depends upon trends and smart investing. Rich folk know to look to trends that suggest where money is headed and, more important, where it can be made. Trends at the moment suggest there may be money to be made in solar and wind power, electric cars, genomes, the Denver Broncos,…
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RAMBLIN’ MAN: You’ve been warned – don’t drive high
Used to be the mantra was don’t drink and drive. So pass? As of Jan. 1, don’t smoke and drive became the driver safety buzzwords in Colorado and Washington. We’re not talking about cigarettes. Nor cigars. With pipes, well, it just depends on what you pack it with. So if that thing dangling from your…