Traffic headaches will multiply in downtown Nampa as the Idaho Department of Transportation repaves or reconstructs several main arteries, including all four sides of Library Square. This will add to the street reconstruction already underway by the city of Nampa ...

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“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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Since mid-January, the largest Twin Falls street project in seven years has slowed traffic on a mile of Eastland Drive between Falls Avenue and Pole Line Road, passing in front of the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

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Dozens of residential streets in Rupert will be rebuilt or repaved this summer as the city wrestles with extensive flood damage from February 2017 and a road maintenance backlog of a dozen or more years. “This road construction season will ...

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Every spring, the freeze and thaw cycle in McCall cracks the downtown streets, sending city crews rushing to patch up the pavements. The cycle repeats year after year on a base pavement that likely dates back 50 or more years, ...

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Two Idaho streets made the list of five Great Streets designated in the American Planning Association’s annual Great Places in America list, which was announced Oct. 3. Main Street in Ketchum and Sherman Avenue in Coeur d’Alene were recognized for ...

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Idaho Falls has started removing four traffic lights in its downtown and a fifth in a shopping district in an effort to better coordinate stoplights and improve safety, according to the city engineer. Stoplights are being removed on Broadway at ...

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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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A free lecture titled “The DNA of City Streets: Rethinking the Use of Street Right of Way” will explore the design of downtown streets. Peter Koonce, a Portland transportation engineer who was worked in the public and private sector, will ...

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The city of Nampa is debating what modern layout works best on historic downtown streets laid down before the age of sidewalks and street parking. The city is exploring the issue in revisions to its 2009 Downtown Streetscape Standards. The ...

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