This fall the LHTAC staff will travel to all 6 ITD Districts and present a half-day workshop overviewing our programs. This year we’ve added two extra stops in New Meadows and Challis in hopes to reach more jurisdictions. Our presentations will focus on applications and how to submit a successful package. We have also added a brief presentation on how to properly fill out your Road and Street Financial Report. (more…)
Article by Nicholas R. Jones, P.E., with excerpts from Local and Rural Road Safety Briefing Sheets: Access Management http://www.safety.fhwa.dot.gov
As smaller cities and towns grow into larger cities and towns and traffic increases on their roads, city management often wishes that they had used access management principles before their roads became so congested. Managing the location and future location of driveways is important as traffic becomes denser on the roadways. (more…)
SPOKANE, Wash. — The solar panels that Idaho inventor Scott Brusaw has built aren’t meant for rooftops. They are meant for roads, driveways, parking lots, bike trails and, eventually, highways.
Brusaw, an electrical engineer, says the hexagon-shaped panels can withstand the wear and tear that comes from inclement weather and vehicles, big and small, to generate electricity. (more…)
From KBOI 2 News, By KBOI Web Staff
The trip to Mountain Home is about to become quicker.
After about a three-week delay, the Idaho Transportation Department says it will raise the speed limits in rural areas on many of Idaho’s interstates to 80 miles per hour beginning on Thursday. (more…)
From KBOI 2 News, By Scott Logan
BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) — Potholes, more importantly, the location of those potholes, symbolize the transportation mess facing Ada County in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
“The potholes were in Boise City limits, because the Boise government, the city council, didn’t have the money it needed to maintain the streets properly,” said Susan Stacy, a local historian. (more…)