This morning, the Gazette reported
The intersection of Powers and Old Ranch Road now tops the city’s list of the 25 most dangerous intersections while many hot spots from the past year saw fewer crumpled cars and injuries.
This is an intersection I drive past several times a week, and I thought it looked extremely dangerous from before it opened. Powers looks like a limited access highway at that point, and there is very little warning that there is at grade crossing with a signal at the top of the hill. In addition, the drivers on Old Ranch do not have good visibilty to see the traffic that might be approaching on Powers. I wonder if this report will lead the traffic engineers to consider some risk mitigation like flashing lights on Powers to warn of the intersection.
” The intersection of Platte and Nevada avenues, with its prominent statue of city founder Gen. William Jackson Palmer, in the middle, fell to 13th in 2006 from fourth the previous year. Tobias pulled out a newspaper story from 1937 showing the same intersection was the site of problems 70 years ago. “That’s when they had horses and buggies,†Tobias said.”
My grandparents and my mother (all born in CS) used to complain about that intersection being the worst. And I used to laugh – no stirrups on the saddle… I wondered if that was the true cause of the problems there – people gawking and laughing.
Otherwise – most of the intersections are ones I travel when I am in the Springs. Now I have a heads up to watch out.