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Help offered to weary recreational travelers on Idaho 55

Lines of vehicles snaked around the Idaho 55 curves between Boise and McCall Monday. It’s a regular holiday pilgrimage that recreationists have grown accustomed to through the years – the long, slow commute.

For more than 15 years, ITD has helped motorists navigate the circuitous route by providing flaggers at the junction of Idaho 55 and the Banks-to-Lowman wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway. Often congested by merging traffic, the junction turns into a bottleneck. Flaggers help integrate the competing traffic.

ITD also dispatches one of its District 3 Incident Response vehicles to the area to help motorists who experience minor vehicle problems, from running out of gas to running out of air in their tires.

Congestion is heaviest in this area, as travelers from the Garden Valley area access Idaho 55," said ITD Maintenance Engineer Tom Points. "We want everyone to have a safe and fun weekend."

Published 9-9-2011