Frank Bruneel
New board chairman has unique perspective of transportation
Summoned from retirement and a modest 60-acre cattle ranch near McCall, Frank Bruneel finds himself in familiar territory as he becomes chairman of the Idaho Transportation Board. He paused briefly from a full schedule of introductory meetings with ITD staff and reminisced about his childhood. The second-floor windows at Headquarters offered a panorama of the Boise Foothills and busy State Street, which some six decades earlier Bruneel called home.
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A message on wheels

Idaho helps celebrate interstate's 50th anniversary in Utah
With historic Promontory Point standing like a sentinel on the horizon, dignitaries reflected Monday (June 19) on the forces that joined America’s shorelines and linked its people. What the transcontinental railroads did in 1869 with the driving of a golden spike and marriage of two railroad building enterprises, the interstate highway system replicated in the 20th century – the results of visionary President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Convoy demonstrates importance of interstate system
It was a fitting scene for a landmark celebration: big trucks, men and women on motorcycles, and the rush of traffic on I-80. As part of a month-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the nation's interstate highway system, a group of visiting dignitaries — in trucks, cars and on motorcycles — stopped at Sugarhouse Park on Monday to talk about the benefits of America's interstates. I-80, which was clogged with morning traffic, was the backdrop for the gathering.
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