Exit 146 - Garden of the Gods Road aerial picture
This interchange was completely redone back in the mid to late 80's. Even then, the engineers were smart enough to make an interchange that is easy to expand. All that needs to happen here is to pave the median and install a Jersey barrier. (And hopefully a new coat of paint on the bridge...) Interesting side note: this is Colorado Springs's first and only SPUI. To make it easier on the drivers, green lights were imbedded in the pavement which would light up to guide left-turning drivers. Unfortunately, they didn't work much past the first snowstorm and were removed in a resurfacing project in 2004.
Live camera courtesy springsgov.com
Original pictures - taken April 2005
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Northbound over Garden of the Gods.
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Bluff overlooking 25 after Garden of the Gods. We're heading northbound.
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Here's the same bluff while traveling southbound.
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Southbound over Garden of the Gods.
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Northbound offramp at Garden of the Gods. Apparently we need 6 red arrows per offramp!
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Eastbound approaching 25.
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2006 Construction Pictures
2005 Construction Pictures: newest to oldest
- 12/22/05
Rockrimmon Constructors wishes you a happy holiday season. Yes, this lights up at night.
- 12/22/05
More cement has been poured for the NB onramp.
- 12/09/05
The conduit for the new traffic signals have been run. The new signals will be where the cones are in the GoG median.
- 11/29/05
I caught crews installing new traffic signals today.
- 11/29/05
The new signals will regulate right-turning traffic from the southbound offramp.
- 11/29/05
Approaching the median construction zone traveling westbound on GoG.
- 11/29/05
Here's a rare sighting of a keep left sign. This is the onramp to NB I-25.
- 11/29/05
New cement for the NB onramp goes right down to the old asphalt.
- 11/29/05
On the NB onramp now. This used to be 2 lanes wide; it will be 3 when it's complete.
- 11/29/05
This Yield sign doesn't lie. There's no accel lane on the interstate right now. The backups here are quite high usually.
- 11/29/05
See? Told you there's no accel lane!
- 11/29/05
A bit of the new cement is poured here.
- 11/29/05
I caught the cement crews in mid-pour today.
- 11/29/05
The cement is all but ready in the median as well. Looking SB.
- 11/29/05
There's just some scoring of the cement left here.
- 11/15/05
Continuing work on the new onramp and mainline lanes.
- 11/15/05
This car is sporting one of the last remnants of last night's snowstorm. Man, I love Colroado weather.
- 11/15/05
The smaller cement layer isn't working today since it's only 30 degrees at the time this pic was taken.
- 11/15/05
A shot of the smaller cement layer from the SB lanes.
- 11/15/05
I guess they're serious about no pedestrians on the north side of Garden of the Gods Road!
- 11/8/05
Covered new cement north of the interchange
- 11/8/05
This worker is cutting pressure relief joints in the cement.
- 11/8/05
The cement layer is waiting for its next assignment.
- 11/8/05
Crews are working away on the GoG bridge.
- 11/8/05
A smaller cement spreader was brought in for the gap between the new cement and the old SB lanes.
- 11/8/05
Onramp reconstruction continues.
- 11/1/05
Crews are finishing up the first pour of the new cement lanes.
- 11/1/05
Working at the new lanes just after the GOG merge northbound.
- 11/1/05
Approaching the GoG exit southbound. Crews are watching the cement dry. (Is this as much fun as watching paint dry?)
- 11/1/05
A look at the finishing touches on pass 1 of the cement roadbed
- 11/1/05
The barrel gap has been closed, not that any cars could get past the parked crew trucks.
- 11/1/05
This onramp used to be two lanes wide. The final configuration will see three lanes. This is a quite busy interchange.
- 10/27/05
The concrete installer is ready to go north of GoG.
- 10/27/05
This truck demonstrates how much wider the ROW of this stretch of the interstate is.
- 10/27/05
As predicted, traffic backups are quite large to access NB 25 here.
- 10/27/05
Definitely making sure drivers know the leftmost left turn lane is closed.
- 10/27/05
Crews are either rewiring the VMS or in the process of removing it here: I can't tell.
- 10/27/05
A shot of the concrete machinery from SB 25.
- 10/27/05
A shot of the completed soundwall from the GoG merge area.
- 10/27/05
Westbound GoG. The crews should really close that gap between the barrels...
- 10/27/05
...since there's no onramp there anymore. This confuses quite a few drivers.
- 10/27/05
Here's the temporary onramp. It goes right over the median.
- 10/20/05
Just after the SB GOG merge.
- 10/18/05
Traffic like this makes me wonder if three lanes will be enough.
- 10/18/05
The VMS says the leftmost left turn lane will close on 10/23/05. This'll cause severe backups through here.
- 10/18/05
The NB onramp is already undergoing a facelift.
- 10/18/05
Technically, there's three lanes here. Or the crazy driver to my right seems to believe that.
- 10/13/05
At the GOG merge, crews are working right up to the temporary barriers.
- 10/13/05
Dirt storage has moved closer to the road. This makes for a very narrow, crowded journey.
- 10/13/05
Lots of activity to the east of the NB lanes today.
- 10/5/05
The fully paved median extends further south than before.
- 10/5/05
Because of the bluff, the interstate is getting widened on the east side as well north of GOG.
- 9/26/05
Looks like the median is used for toy storage this week.
- 9/26/05
More toys on the bridge.
- 9/26/05
While stopped in traffic, I thought I'd take this shot of the bridge's expansioin joint.
- 9/26/05
The last toy parked in the median.
- 9/26/05
Old drainage pipes awaiting their ride out of the site. Looking south on I-25.
- 9/26/05
The median is awaiting resurfacing south of the interchange.
- 9/26/05
Approaching the sound wall installation section, which is continued on the Ellston Road Page.
- >9/19/05
Crews wasted no time in clearing this section of the median.
- 9/19/05
Looking at the graded and prepped median.
- 9/19/05
A look at the depth of the grading. The tire tracks are at the bottom of the graded area.
- 9/19/05
If you look closely, you can see wires hanging off of the control box. The big VMS has been disconnected.
- 9/12/05
Looking northbound from the GOG bridge.
- 9/12/05
The northbound acceleration lane is too short. This was even mentioned in our paper's "Street Smarts" section.
- 9/12/05
You can see archaeological students from UCCS studying these rocks quite often.
- 9/12/05
This pile of dirt will require the first overnight interstate closure of the COSMIX project for removal.
- 9/12/05
Bridge work ahead! MM 145.5 is at the Ellston bridge. COSMIX has been using MM xxx for all of its VMS announcements.
- 8/29/05
The median work is about to start north of the Garden of the Gods interchange.
- 8/29/05
Southbound lanes are restriped here now in anticipation of median work.
- 8/29/05
Before, during the morning, traffic used to back up on the shoulder for this exit. I'd hate to see where it goes now.
- 7/19/05
Approaching the Garden of the Gods bridge. Here's where the first zone starts.
- 7/19/05
Construction crews are using the paved wide shoulder as parking for their personal vehicles.
- >7/19/05
Just after the bridge structure lies a few piles of the removed asphalt, ground up fine and awaiting removal.
- 7/19/05
Crews remove the old asphalt on a section just south of Garden of the Gods Road.
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2006 Construction Pictures
- Where to next?
- Ellston Street
- COSMIX Home
- Exit 147
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