Shifting Gears
Study Status: Complete
51 ways the community shaped the solution for US 24 West
What are Context Sensitive Solutions?
Concepts that Shaped the Project
- Use Garden of the Gods interchange design at the Cimarron interchange.
- Improve Colorado Avenue and connections to US 24.
- Improve safety and widen cross streets.
- Widen US 24 and add general purpose lanes.
- Widen at-grade signalized intersections.
- Combine the I-25 and 8th street interchanges.
- Connect the Midland Trail to Red Rock Canyon Open Space.
- Build a pedestrian/bike/horse underpass at the 21st Street bridge that crosses Fountain Creek.
- Extend the Midland Trail to enhance pedestrian mobility from 21st to 31st Street.
- Leave open the Midland Trail underpass to America the Beautiful Park at I-25.
- Add safety crossing features.
- Add sidewalk to the bridges between Colorado Avenue and US 24.
- Eliminate the frontage road and use the land to move the main line away from the neighborhood.
- For overpasses, consider the environmental impacts of the over/under configurations.
- Improve acceleration and deceleration lanes.
- The roadway should have wide shoulders.
- Cut back the rock slope at 31st Street to keep rocks off the roadway.
- Low maintenance medians.
- Use urban landscaping approaches in the urban section.
- Develop green spaces along the corridor.
- Use architectural treatments to structures that match the context of the corridor.
- Choose a palette of colors to match the environment.
- Enhance Fountain Creek and make it a focal point.
- Need public input. Need to know what's important to the community.
- Include historic looking lamp posts.
- Include an entryway feature into Colorado Springs at the western limit of the project.
- Incorporate iron work into the aesthetic treatments.
- Capture economic vitality in the criteria.
- Enhance the riparian environment.
- Include noise barriers.
- Use native grasses and plants in the re-vegetation.
- Avoid the Midland Roundhouse.
- Preserve historical features.
- Control run-off from the road into Fountain Creek.
- Look at alternative modes along the corridor.
- Midland trail street crossing result in conflicts with cars.
- Have Ridge Road go under US 24 so it's safer for humans and wildlife.
- Don't impact the Safeway between 31st Street and Ridge Road.
- Don't overload Colorado Avenue by moving traffic off of US 24.
- Make the corridor look better.
- Connect the neighborhoods.