Shifting Gears
51 ways the community shaped the solution for US 24 West
What are Context Sensitive Solutions?- Critical Issues
- Ideas
- Finding a Balance
- Potential Alternatives
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
- Create partnerships to develop open space, parks and other community facilities
- Provide access across US 24 from the near-west end to Gold Hill Mesa
- Build a parallel trail on the south side of US 24
- Pedestrian overpass at 25th Street
- Consider a riverwalk for Fountain Creek
