June 21, 2018
Comments Off on ACHD chipsealing starts between Five Mile and Orchard
Ada County Highway District’s annual chipseal road treatment work started the week of June 12, this year falling in neighborhoods between Five Mile Road and Orchard Street. Chipsealing involves pressing chips and rocks into the surface of liquid asphalt, and ...
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Read More »Two traffic signals have come to the countryside on Highway 55 north of Eagle. Ada County Highway District switched on a new traffic signal June 6 at the entrance to the Avimor subdivision, 11 miles north of State Street. A ...
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June 8, 2018
Comments Off on Transit lessons from Utah
If public transit is to improve in the Treasure Valley, business must get involved soon, according to the executive who helped improve that service in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley. “If you wait for the disaster to occur, it will cost ...
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May 30, 2018
Comments Off on “Your Speed” signs are cropping up on Ada County streets
“Officer, I didn’t know how fast I was driving” will be even less plausible as an excuse as Ada County Highway District has started installing up to 50 permanent radar speed signs throughout Ada County. These are the electronic signs ...
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August 28, 2017
Comments Off on Brick surfaces will upgrade Freak Alley and Union Block alley
Freak Alley has emerged has a major attraction for visitors and locals alike, despite the dumpsters, puddles and uneven pavement. Across the way, the alley behind the historic Union Block building has more puddles and dumpsters. It has no murals ...
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Read More »Warm Springs Avenue reopened to through traffic April 21 after a three-month closure that sent drivers onto Parkcenter Boulevard. Warm Springs was closed Jan. 10 for three-quarters of a mile between Starcrest Drive and East Parsnip Peak Drive after several ...
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April 19, 2017
Comments Off on First look at design for Fifth and Sixth as two-way streets
Converting the one-way Fifth and Sixth streets in downtown Boise to two-way would involve turn lanes at the cost of 54 street parking spaces, according to the first designs made public by the Ada County Highway District. Boise has asked ...
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February 2, 2017
Comments Off on Plan calls for removing a lane of Fairview and Main in Boise’s West End
City and county planners are considering a plan to reduce the traffic lanes from four to three on Main Street and Fairview on Boise’s west end to add street parking and bicycle lanes. The city of Boise and Ada County ...
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Jefferson Street in downtown Boise was converted from one-way traffic to two-way traffic on Nov. 3. It’s the latest street to return to two-way traffic as spelled out in the 2013 Downtown Boise Implementation Plan. Jefferson now runs two ways ...
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August 12, 2016
Comments Off on Fairview and Main are destined to become urban streets on the West End
The Ada County Highway District is preparing the Main Street-Fairview Avenue couplet for its future as a bustling corridor with a community college, hundreds of new apartments and a new medical facility. ACHD on Aug. 11 and in June staged ...
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