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6-11-04
In
Memory of President Ronald W. Reagan
Extraordinary
leaders inspire ordinary people
to achieve extraordinary results. President
Ronald Wilson Reagan was that kind of leader.
The Idaho Transportation Department joins
the nation today in grieving the loss of
an extraordinary leader. We encourage you
to reflect on his legacy to all Americans,
indeed the world, and to remember his family
during this national day of mourning.
Biography
of a legend
USS
Reagan tribute to its namesake
Idaho
senators pay tribute
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Celebrating
great beginnings and endings
Plans
are up in the air, figuratively, for the monthly
Idaho Transportation Board tour Thursday. Board
members will focus their attention on aeronautics
and related transportation issues on the first
day of their two-day meeting in Boise.
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Board
to discuss aeronautics issues June 18-18
Plans
are up in the air, figuratively, for the monthly
Idaho Transportation Board tour Thursday. Board
members will focus their attention on aeronautics
and related transportation issues on the first
day of their two-day meeting in Boise.
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Public
transportation partnership featured
on AASHTO site
The
Idaho Transportation Department
and regional public transportation
providers have joined to form
a model program to meet the needs
of citizens in the Pocatello area.
Truly a collaboration success,
the new regional program takes
center stage this week as the
featured "success" story
on the American Association of
State Highway Transportation Officials
web site. To read the AASHTO feature,
go to http://www.transportation.org/aashto/success.nsf/allpages/2004-07idaho
or choose "continue"
below to read the Transporter
version.
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Four
scenic byways to receive federal grants
Attentive
motorists traveling a scenic route in southeast
Idaho will discover remnants of Idahos first
grist mill, a historic Mormon academy and the location
of the Bear River Massacre. For the less observant,
new signs will be added in the future that will
make those and other scenic vistas easier to identify.
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ITD
photographers await word on FHWA honor
The
beauty found along Idahos highways
and interstates is both good fortune
and good planning. Protecting and
enhancing the natural beauty often
requires planting and nurturing native
vegetation and preventing the intrusion
of noxious weeds
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Adopt-A-Highway
groups collect nearly 1 million pounds
Motorists
in southwest Idaho will see a lot
of things alongside heavily traveled
Interstate 84 and U.S. 20, but what
they wont notice is a proliferation
of trash. Thats where members
of the Caldwell Lions Club and the
Ada County Inmate Labor Program regularly
patrol. Combined, the groups harvested
nearly 500,000 tons of discarded,
displaced or drifting litter.
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