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Boise, ID 83707
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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


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 Idaho’s 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 Idaho’s 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 won’t notice is a proliferation of trash. That’s 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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PERSI newsletter available on line
The June issue of the PERSI employee newsletter is available to download and read. You will find it at: http://www.persi.state.id.us/html/EMPLOYER/NTU_04/04_06_NTU.htm

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