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Jennings to guide Office of Traffic and Highway Safety
Brent Jennings will return to the place where he began his ITD career after recently accepting a promotion to Traffic and Highway Safety Engineer. He replaces Lance Johnson who accepted a position with the Federal Highway Administration late last year.
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ITD to welcome WASHTO conference
Transportation officials from throughout the western U.S. will meet in Boise March 27-30 for an annual WASHTO (Western Association of State Highway Transportation Officials) conference, hosted by the Idaho Transportation Department. The three-day conference will be at the Grove Hotel and features presentations on highway construction methods and materials.
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Idaho joins national seat belt campaign
ITD's Office of Traffic and Highway Safety is working to help reduce the number of needless injuries to children because of automobile crashes every year. Children ages 4 to 8 who use booster seats are 59 percent less likely to be injured in a car crash than children who are restrained only by a safety belt
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Engineers chapter schedules luncheon
Boise State University President, Robert W. Kustra to Speak at Engineer Week Luncheon The Southwest Chapter of the Idaho Society of Professional Engineers will play host to an Engineer’s Week Luncheon Tuesday, Feb. 21, in conjunction with National Engineers Week. The luncheon will be at the Doubletree Riverside Inn, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Boise, beginning at 11:30 a.m.
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Idaho must develop with eye to future
Over-reliance on mining and agriculture, the natural resource industries that built Idaho, without developing value-added products from the output of those industries is the pathway to ruin. Idahoans and all Americans must build for the future by avoiding short-term solutions directed at wealthy, existing clusters of industries,
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U.S. DOT announces FY 07 budget
U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta this week unveiled a $65.6 billion Fiscal Year 2007 budget request that provides record investments for new highway, transit and safety programs, explores new ways to fund transportation projects over the long term and provides funds to encourage continued Amtrak reform.
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Federal earmarks have proven beneficial
By Rep. Mike Simpson
Unfortunately, as you may know, some unscrupulous members of Congress have used the awarding of appropriations “earmarks” as a means of enriching themselves and their families at the expense of taxpayers. That’s wrong, it’s against the law, and they will be going to jail for their transgressions. In order to prevent these abuses from resurfacing, some members of Congress have called for an end to earmarking or extreme new restrictions on the practice.
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ITD Mailbox
• Thanks for assisting snow survey team
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