CORRECTION: CDOT says overnight Friday lane closures on Powers Boulevard not happening
Scott Harrison
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) clarified a KRDO 13 report on Friday regarding scheduled overnight median work on a mile-long stretch of Powers Boulevard on the east side of the city.
An alert posted on a map on CoTrip.org’s website stated that two left lanes northbound and southbound overnight Friday between the Platte Avenue overpass and Aeroplaza Drive would be closed.
CoTrip.org
The alert announced the closure times as starting at 7 p.m. Friday and ending at 4 a.m. Saturday, near the ongoing project to build a new overpass at the Powers/Airport Road intersection.
However, a CDOT representative said that the closures happened earlier this week and will not be happening this weekend.
Possibly a confusing point is that the CoTrip map shows a “21” symbol, shaped like a tear-off calendar, over the project area — which could mean the project’s supposed start date of November 21, or Powers’ official designation as Colorado Highway 21.
“We don’t know why it’s showing that,” the representative told KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior.
Meanwhile, another project in that general area — also posted on CoTrip, apparently, will happen this weekend.
Utility repair work will close the westbound shoulder of US 24, east of the Platte Avenue overpass, between Highway 94 and Valley Street, between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday — a distance of 1.3 miles.
CoTrip.org
As of late Friday afternoon, CoTrip had removed the “21” from its Powers map location and replaced it with a “22,” referring to the US 24 utility work, even though that work is not on Powers.