Scared to use bike lane on a busy street? ACHD aims to ease stress for bikers, walkers Rachel Spacek, The Idaho Statesman
Jun. 27 Navigating Ada County streets may become easier soon for bicyclists and pedestrians.
The Ada County Highway District has just adopted a new policy to improve the transportation system by striving for measures to lower stress for pedestrians and bicyclists. They include: Traffic-calming features on roads with three or fewer lanes.
The primary way they work is to decrease the comfort level of speeding on the roadway. Raised bike lanes in areas where the speed limit is over 35 mph. Raised bike lanes are paths next to sidewalks at sidewalk height. With bicyclists up on raised lanes, they are more visible to motorists.
Sharon Fisher When my daughter was small, we used to go tent camping a couple of weekends each summer in various places around the Northwest. I soon discovered the Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds situated around the lower Snake River dams near the Tri-Cities. The campgrounds were great, but I often regretted how much history of the Lewis & Clark Trail was now underwater in the process. That’s part of why the current discussion about the breaching of the four dams on the lower Snake is so interesting to me: There’s no obvious solution and no clear winner. With the dams, the fish may go extinct. Without the dams, the fish may still go extinct, and it would require a huge change in business practices in the whole region. Intrepid reporter Catie Clark attempted to summarize a discussion held by the Andrus Center for Public Policy, and she described how much had to be left on the cutting-room floor (is that a metaphor kids these days even understand anymore?) in the process. Tha
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Want an affordable apartment, 2 blocks from Capitol? Big Boise project offers hope David Staats, The Idaho Statesman
Mar. 9 A plan is afoot to make a downtown Boise block the site of one of the biggest urban-renewal construction projects ever undertaken in Boise.
The goal: to create more affordable housing. But Boise officials, who are barely into the project s discussion stage, already have doubts about how many of the possible 500 new apartments could or should actually be affordable to people earning modest wages.
The apartments would be built in buildings up to eight stories tall on the block bordered by State, 11th, Jefferson and 10th streets. The block is across State Street from the Downtown Boise YMCA and just two blocks west of the Capitol.