CALDWELL — Highway district officials and the city of Caldwell would like to transform the Old Highway 30 bridge into a pedestrian pathway and build a new bridge to provide vehicular transport.
Officials will present four possible locations for where a new bridge could be constructed and gather public input on the bridge project at 4 p.m. Thursday (July 7, 2016) at the Canyon Highway District No. 4 office.
See full article in the Idaho Press-Tribune by clicking HERE.
Below you will find information on upcoming webinars announced through a recent email from the Rural Road Safety Center.
ADA Presentation – Design, Construction and Maintenance of Pedestrian Facilities for Accessibility in the Public Right-of-Way
Published: February 9, 2016
Presenter: Jason Giard, PE – Operations Engineer – FHWA Idaho Division
Duration: 90 Minutes (The link takes about 2 minutes to load)
Intended Audience: Planners, Engineers, Consultants, Contractors, ADA Practitioners, Disability Professionals, Civil Rights Specialist, and City, County or Highway Jurisdictions. (more…)
The comment period started Friday, July 1. It lasts through Saturday, July 30.
The draft Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP) lists proposed projects for the next five years, and includes programmed improvements to highways, bicycle routes, pedestrian projects, safety projects, bridges and public transportation. The draft ITIP can be viewed at:
The Local Highway Technical Assistance Council administered this project.
Project Description: The project is located on Turner Road, a farm to market road approximately 0.2 miles west of Grace, Idaho. The Turner Road Penstock Bridge carries Turner Road over eleven foot diameter wooden penstock enclosed pipe that feeds a PacifiCorp owned power generation plant. The penstock is four and one half miles long beginning at the Grace Dam Complex on the Bear River and ending at the Grace Power Plant.
This project consisted of reconstructing Turner Road Penstock Bridge with geosynthetic reinforced soil integrated bridge system (GRS-IBS) technology.
Status: The project is substantially complete. The bridge was opened to the public on June 1, 2016.