Progress made on pesky potholes on private property in Colorado Springs area
Scott Harrison
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Road Warrior has occasionally reported on the frustration felt by drivers coping with persistent potholes in parking lots, on access roads and service drives, or on other privately owned and managed property.
But there’s recent progress to share on two private areas with notoriously bad potholes.
One location is what KRDO first began reporting on in 2014 — Sonic Drive, the access road between the Sonic restaurant and the Texas Roadhouse along 8th Street.
A parcel search on The El Paso County Assessor’s Office website indicates that Sonic owns the road, and The Road Warrior left a message with the company a month ago to ask when the potholes will be filled.
There was no immediate response, but since then, the only response that really matters came; ten large pothole areas are now patched — including one so deep that someone used nearby landscaping stones to fill it.
Sonic also repaired the same potholes previously after inquiries by KRDO 13, but they re-developed and had continued to worsen for several years as drivers became accustomed to swerving around them.
Drivers likely are now wondering whether the repairs will spread next door, to an access road beside a Shell gas station and the Texas Roadhouse