9/12/2014

Transportation Board
Transportation board will finish district tours with Sept. 18 meeting at Harriman State Park
The transportation board's last tour of the year will be held in District 6. Plans include traveling U.S. 20 from Idaho Falls to West Yellowstone, Mont., where it will meet with the Montana Transportation Commission to discuss issues of mutual concern. The business meeting will be held Sept. 18 at Harriman State Park.
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Districts
Historic whistles, now dormant, were once vital to everyday life
They are relics of a bygone era. Like black-and-white television, transistor radios, and rotary phones, they remind us of technology long since left behind. Yet in another time, they may well have been as critical to ITD as the equipment used to build and maintain roads.It is a bit of Idaho Transportation Department history, and a bit of Americana. Though no longer in use, they remain tokens of a very different time.
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Headquarters
Recycling to become easier while saving money at ITD
The Idaho Transportation Department is ramping up its recycling program. ITD Print Tech Gabe Sielaff is overseeing a recycling revolution of sorts (no pun intended) at headquarters with the hope that it encourages more people to recycle, while saving the department thousands of dollars annually.
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Customer Service
Incident Response Driver Nick Jones receives kudos, twice
One of the Incident Response drivers, Nick Jones, was recently the subject of a pair of emails sent in by customers complimenting Jones and his delivery of exemplary customer service.
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Districts
District 3 seeing reduction in work-related industrial accidents
The District 3 safety program has undergone major changes in the last three years, leading to a significant reduction in the number of work-related industrial and vehicular accidents. Industrial accidents fell from 28 last year to 18 in the recently completed Fiscal Year - almost a 36-percent drop. Vehicular accidents fell from 53 three years ago to just 32 last year, a 40-percent reduction.
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Emergency Preparedness
Traffic Incident Management training scheduled for October
ITD and the Federal Highway Administration are co-sponsoring the first statewide Traffic Incident Management (TIM) training for agencies that respond to emergencies on Idaho roadways. Training is scheduled Oct 7, 8 at the Riverside Hotel in Boise. The first day runs from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The workshop resumes at 8 a.m. the following day and will conclude at noon.
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Customer Service
Encore: (9-5-2014) District 2 engineering team recognized for professionalism
Recently, District 2 Engineer Doral Hoff received a hand-written thank-you note in the mail from a gentleman who needed some sewer line repairs completed. The district was commended by Tim Brown for its professionalism.
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People
Encore: (9-5-2014) David Petersdorf named Maintenance Person of the Year
An Idaho Transportation Department District 5 employee has been named the 2013 “Maintenance Person of the Year.” Transportation Technician Principal David Petersdorf of the D5 Striping Crew, was recognized for optimizing technology that has saved the department thousands of dollars annually in maintenance costs while striping and painting Idaho roadways.
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Accolade
Encore: (9-5-2014) Another award for Linder to Ballantyne Design-Build
The reconstruction of Idaho 44 from Linder Road to Ballantyne Lane, ITD¹s first design-build project, received top honors in the Intermountain Division of the ENR (formerly Engineering News Record) Mountain States 2014 competition. Central Paving was the contractor and Horrocks was the designer for the project, completed in October 2013.
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Districts
Encore: (9-5-2014) Crossing the Divide
What's best for the traveling public is a question that Ryan Day asks himself when negotiating agreements to replace old railroad crossings."You can take a hard line and say railroad companies must maintain their crossings per Idaho law, but that doesn't build relationships," Day said.
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Districts
Encore: (9-5-2014) ITD visits Middleton Library Literacy Program
A pair of ITD District 3 employees from the Caldwell Maintenance shop visited the Middleton Public Library to take part in the children's summer reading program. Well, not really participate ­ more like bring down the house. Ed Prickett took a snowplow with a mounted wing, and Dwight Moffat took the Elgin street sweeper on July 30 for the finale of
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