The City of Colorado Springs will activate a new school zone at Doherty High School on Monday, April 24. A new school zone on Barnes Road, between Austin Bluffs Road and Oro Blanco Road, includes flashing 20 mph speed limit signs, along with road markings.
The school zone will be active each morning on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 7 a.m. to 7:50 a.m., and on Wednesday from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. The flashing signs will also be activated each weekday from 3:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m.
Colorado Springs Police Department officers will actively patrol the school zone in the first week to remind drivers to slow down.
Colorado Springs has not historically had school zones at high schools. City Traffic Engineering will continue to work with school districts to install school zones in the future around other high schools as needed.