Exit 145 - SH38/Fillmore Street aerial picture
This exit is where I-25 bottlenecks to two lanes when heading northbound. This, along with an impossibly short acceleration lane northbound, leads to some hefty backups during the PM rush hour. North of this interchange is a bridge over Ellston street which will either be rehabbed or replaced. New pictures have a grey background under the caption.
Live camera of the interchange
Original Pictures - taken April 2005
- Original shot
Northbound. Goodbye lane 3, hello FREAKING HUGE SH 38 shield.
- Original shot
The traffic sensor to the right of the roadway is here because of the heavy backups this stretch sees.
- Original shot
Multiple skidmarks: bad. 500 foot acceleration lane: worse.
- Original shot
Southbound at Fillmore. The frontage road shares the same intersection with the offramp.
- Original shot
Wider shoulder than usual here. The road will be restriped to a 3+1 configuration during COSMIX.
- 7/5/05
Eastbound on Fillmore approaching I-25. Fillmore descends a 9% grade immediately before the interstate.
- 7/5/05
Any wonder why Colorado Springs was rated extremely high in a "worst traffic for a city of its size" survey?
- 7/5/05
Eastbound Fillmore's intersection with SB 25. Any questions to where the exit for NB 25 is?
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2006 Construction Pictures
2005 Construction Pics: newest to oldest
- 12/22/05
Except for this gap, the fencing is complete to Ellston now.
- 12/09/05
Crews are installing the fencing just after the NB onramp.
- 12/09/05
The fence poles have been installed all the way to just before the Garden of the Gods exit on the east side of the highway.
- 11/15/05
The temporary barricades are starting to retreat northwards.
- 11/8/05
I haven't updated the look NB from this point in a while, so here ya go.
- 10/27/05
Looking at the guardrail installation from the SB 25 exit ramp.
- 10/20/05
Removing the old median guardrail.
- 10/20/05
So which one is right: South I-25 or I-25 North? Or does it really make a difference?
- 10/18/05
Crews are working on removing some of the vegetation right before the SB exit.
- 9/19/05
The additional lanes in the median are surfaced now.
- 9/12/05
Temporary fencing now marks the southern end of the first phase of COSMIX.
- 9/12/05
A new addition to the sign. The shoulder is now closed all the way to the Rockrimmon Blvd. exit.
- 9/12/05
Restriping laziness on the southbound Fillmore offramp.
- 9/12/05
A new sign replaces an old button-copy one. Yet it's still quite hidden from eastbound Fillmore traffic.
- 8/29/05
Emerging from the dark of the Fillmore overpass.
- 8/29/05
Just after the Fillmore bridge. Trucks merge from the left after the end of the barrier.
- 8/9/05
Methinks the median sign is overkill right now, don't you?<
- 7/30/05
Barrels lead you to the crash barrier at the edge of the temporary Jersey barriers.
- 7/12/05
Median barricades are being installed in this pic. The lanes have already been moved to the right.
- 7/5/05
Slowdowns are normal, but the fact that there's workmen in the median ahead helped slow traffic down that much more.
- 7/5/05
In the field of orange stakes lives a breed that's migrating to the city as we speak: construction workers.
- 7/5/05
In preparation for the lane shift to the right shoulder, the northbound merge lane gets widened.
- 7/5/05
More shoulder widening. These spaces will be the Emergency Pullout sections.
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2006 Construction Pictures
- Where to next?
- Uintah Street
- COSMIX Home
- Ellston Street
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