The new pedestrian overpass
at Circle Drive provides safer access to area schools and businesses.

A few cones and barrels
remained as the Circle/Lake interchange reached
completion.

The completed noise
wall and pedestrian
bridge.

Challenges Were:
Access to and from Interstate 25 at the Circle Drive/Lake Avenue interchange 
was constrained because of inadequate merge and diverge lanes.
Access to the interstate from Circle/Lake was limited, primarily due to inadequate
left turn capacity.
Through lane capacity of Circle/Lake was severely limited at the interchange.
Development growth in the vicinity of the interchange has resulted in much higher
than expected traffic volumes.
The original pedestrian overpass was deteriorating.  A high volume of pedestrian
traffic in the area was not being accommodated sufficiently. 

Project Solutions Were:
Construct additional acceleration/deceleration lanes for interchange ramps.
Construct additional left turn lane onto the interchange.
Increase the number of through lanes on Circle/Lake at the interchange and
improve the signal progression on Circle Drive/Lake Avenue at the interchange.
Construct a new pedestrian overpass compatible with the new interchange.
The new interchange concept includes a plan for local street reconfigurations in
collaboration with the City of Colorado Springs that accommodates local traffic
patterns and improves interchange access.