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30th Street Corridor

Transportation

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A safer road to Garden of the Gods.

30th Street is the main route into Garden of the Gods Park, carrying park visitors, neighborhood traffic, and cyclists on a narrow, winding two-lane road with little margin for error. The City of Colorado Springs’ 30th Street Corridor Improvement Project rebuilt roughly three miles between Mesa Road and Fontanero Street: widening the roadway with paved multi-use shoulders, adding a roundabout at Gateway Road, upgrading intersections, building a pedestrian underpass, and installing a new storm sewer system with a water quality pond. More than 2,000 feet of retaining walls and 6,300 feet of soldier pile were needed to hold the widened road on the hillside.

Vivid Engineering led quality assurance testing and served on the construction inspection team for the project, verifying soils, concrete, and asphalt — including some 14,000 tons of asphalt and 21,000 feet of curb and gutter — against project specifications. The improvements strengthened emergency access and evacuation routes and created safer travel for motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians on the way into one of the region’s most visited parks.

Project Details

  • Client

    City of Colorado Springs

  • Contractor

    Wildcat Construction

  • Location

    30th Street, Mesa Road to Fontanero Street – Colorado Springs, CO

  • Timeline

    October 2021 – September 2023

  • Sector

    Transportation

  • Services

    Construction Inspection & Testing

Project Location

30th Street, Fontanero Street to Garden of the Gods Road, Colorado Springs, CO

Nearest City: Colorado Springs

County: El Paso

State: Colorado

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