2/10/2017

Employees
Idahoans thankful for clear roads
This has been a hectic winter for department maintenance employees and those who support those road-clearing efforts. All of us in the ITD family realize these folks have gone above and beyond - and that acknowledgement extends beyond these walls.
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Highway Damage
Flooding, water-over-the-roadway concerns become a statewide issue
Increasing moisture and warming temperatures is mixing with heavy snowpack from a historic winter to create flooding and water-over-the-roadway situations all across the state on state highways and interstate routes.
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Office of Highway Safety
ITD's Communication, Highway Safety offices collaborate on college sports partnership
ITD’s Office of Highway Safety and Office of Communication collaborated with Learfield Sports this fall to write, produce and deliver media outreach in partnership with Boise State University, University of Idaho and Idaho State University.
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District 5
Inkom Port of Entry on I-15 now features Weigh-in-Motion technology to expedite commerce
As the picture shows, the installation of Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) technology in southeastern Idaho at the Inkom Port of Entry (POE) is now complete, fast-tracking benefits for commercial vehicles using the scales, the general motoring public, and local economies.
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Department History
From the ITD Vault 25 Years Ago (Feb. 1987): Bennett Bay Bridge offers best of form and function
When construction on the Bennett Bay Centennial Bridge, designed to carry four lanes of Interstate 90 traffic to and from Coeur d'Alene, was completed in the fall of 1990, the perfect marriage, in a bridge designer's eyes, was made – the union of aesthetic beauty and structural integrity.
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