October 27, 2015
Comments Off on Public input sought on bike lanes for south end of Capitol Boulevard
The Ada County Highway District is looking at ways to keep downtown bike lanes going up Capitol Boulevard to Federal Way and Rose Hill Street. New Capitol Boulevard bike lanes were striped this summer during chipseal maintenance to add a ...
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August 11, 2015
Comments Off on Report: Boise has some of the best roads in the West
Boise roads pass muster as among the best in the country. An independent evaluation of Ada County’s primary roads determined that 86 percent are in “very good” condition, 13 percent are “good” and only 1 percent are poor. Less than ...
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August 5, 2015
Comments Off on A wide bike lane now crosses Capitol Boulevard bridge
The chipsealing pavement work on Capitol Boulevard has brought with it a new lane configuration along with a generous 7-foot bike lane that is two feet wider than the national standard. The new striping was designed, in part, to extend ...
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July 14, 2015
Comments Off on St. Luke’s still has to jump many hurdles to reach its goal
Before two blocks of Jefferson Street disappear off the downtown Boise map, St. Luke’s Health System will have to address adding mixed-use elements such as retail to its master plan and reopen Bannock Street in front of the hospital to ...
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More than 500 miles of roadway between the Boise River and the Orchard-Gowan-Eisenman corridor will be chipsealed from now through the end of August. Some downtown streets between Front Street and the river and also between the Main Street-Fairview Avenue ...
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February 4, 2015
Comments Off on Royal Boulevard likely will bust through small park
With as many as 1,500 new residents living in the Lusk Street neighborhood later this year, plans are in the works to extend Royal Boulevard through a sliver of park space and create new intersections at Ninth Street and Capitol ...
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January 9, 2015
Comments Off on ACHD proposes wider 15th Street bike lane
The Ada County Highway District is proposing to remove the east side parking lane on 15th Street between Bannock and Fort streets to allow for a wider bike lane. But ACHD said community input will play a “very important” role ...
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January 8, 2015
Comments Off on No surprise: Eagle and Fairview is the busiest intersection
Nobody needs a traffic count to know that Eagle Road is the place to avoid during rush hour, especially the epicenter intersection of Eagle and Fairview. Chinden Boulevard is no picnic either. Every three years, however, Ada County Highway District ...
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December 24, 2014
Comments Off on Bike lane now leads up to the Capitol
Capitol Boulevard now has five blocks of buffered bike lane from Front Street to Jefferson Street. Buffered means there are two white lines on the pavement to create space between bikes and cars, but there are no poles or any ...
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December 8, 2014
Comments Off on Two-way traffic returns to 11th and 12th streets
Two-way traffic returned to 11th and 12th streets at the end of October but other conversions of one-way streets are awaiting drier weather. 11th Street now has two-way traffic between Main and State streets, and two-way traffic now graces 12th ...
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