Posts Categorized: LHTAC News

ITD’s Public Transportation Office Seeks East Idaho Rep

Attention Local Highway Jurisdictions in District 6

This is a pivotal and challenging time in the world of Public Transportation in Idaho, and the Idaho Transportation Department is seeking a representative for District 6 in East Idaho to serve on the Public Transportation Advisory Council (PTAC). (more…)

Federal-Aid Rankings and Draft ITIP Inclusions

The Federal-aid Bridge, Small Urban Transportation Plans, and Rural scores and rankings were approved at the March 13, 2020 LHTAC Council Meeting. Below you will find the rankings and what has been submitted in the Draft ITIP.

Local Rural Highway Investment Program LRHIP Cut Lines Announced

The Local Rural Highway Investment Program (LRHIP) scores and rankings were approved at the March 13, 2020 LHTAC Council Meeting. At the time of the LHTAC meeting the Idaho Transportation Board had not approved the revisions to the Administrative and Board policies. The two policies lay out some of the rules for the program and set the exchange rate.

On April 16th, 2020 the new policies were approved and adopted by the Idaho Transportation Board, the updated rankings below now show cut lines. 

Award notification letters will start going out by mail next week. 

If you have questions, please contact Laila Kral (LKral@lhtac.org) or (208) 344-0565.

LRHIP Application Rankings (PDF) Updated on 4/24/2020 with cut lines

March 2020 Quarterly Progress Report

The Local Highway Technical Assistance Council (LHTAC) provides an important linkage between Local Highway Jurisdictions (LHJs) and the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) in the utilization of Federal-aid highway funds available to the LHJs in Idaho. These quarterly progress reports include the status listing of current and upcoming LHTAC projects for each district.

March 2020 Quarterly Progress Report District 1 (PDF)
March 2020 Quarterly Progress Report District 2 (PDF)
March 2020 Quarterly Progress Report District 3 (PDF)
March 2020 Quarterly Progress Report District 4 (PDF)
March 2020 Quarterly Progress Report District 5 (PDF)
March 2020 Quarterly Progress Report District 6 (PDF)

Upcoming Webinars from New York LTAP Center

Thank you Cornell Local Roads Program for sharing this resource. You can register through the links below.
Please note that webinar times are shown in Eastern Time. 

Estimating and Understanding the Costs of Highway Projects – 4/21/20, 2pm-3pm EST
Presented by Cornell Local Roads Program Director David Orr, PE (PDH)

Estimating projects costs does not have to be overly complicated, but is critical to budgeting and planning. In this session David will provide an overview of a simple way to perform a cost estimate and show some examples of how to determine the costs of your highway projects.
Register Here
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