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Idaho Transportation
Department

Office of Communications
P.O. Box 7129
Boise, ID 83707
208.334.8005
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July 18, 2008

Transportation funding
Governor's conference generating interest, ideas
How would you fund construction and maintenance of nearly 12,000 lane miles of highway and more than 4,000 bridges at a time when revenue is flat, inflation is skyrocketing and demand is unprecedented? Idaho citizens, elected officials and local highway administrators in Caldwell, Coeur d’Alene and Lewiston considered the challenge this week during the first three of six statewide transportation revenue conferences.
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Transportation Board
Half-dozen delegations express needs to board
The Idaho Transportation Board considered a wide range of presentations last week when they met with delegations during a two-day visit and business meeting in Coeur d’Alene. The comments and requests varied.
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Bridges
In-house bridge design captures national award

Nearly a decade ago, District 6 engineers stood on one side of the pristine Canyon Creek canyon and looked at the other. Their dilemma was how to best replace an aging three-span deck truss, built in 1932, with a new 375-foot steel structure.  They set out to build a modern bridge over the environmentally sensitive canyon on Idaho 33.
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Highway Safety
Extra patrols targeted for aggressive drivers

Speeding, tailgating, illegal passing and running stop signs or lights are poor choices some people make so law enforcement agencies throughout Idaho will be targeting these aggressive driving behaviors beginning today and continuing through July 27.
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Boating's silent killer
Carbon monoxide threat lurks behind motor boats
It is easy to grasp the danger of carbon monoxide in a closed environment like a garage or well-sealed home. Less apparent are risks that invisible, odorless, tasteless and non-irritating gas pose to recreational watercraft users. Dale Stephenson didn’t understand carbon monoxide risks associated with boating until about a year ago, but now, getting the message out about those risks has become his passion.
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Neighbors
ITD to help welcome neighbors to new home
Neighbors who have been displaced the past six weeks from their home near Headquarters will return Friday (July 25). ITD employees are invited to help welcome Joy Sams and her teenage daughter Erin back during an 11 a.m. ceremony at 88 Rose St., just east of the ITD annex and Materials Lab. What they see won’t have much resemblance to the home they left June 6.
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Joy's story
Joy is a single mom with a 16-year-old daughter. Her daughter Erin was born with a life threatening heart defect: the left-side of her heart never developed, and the doctors told Joy all they could do was keep Erin comfortable until she died. Someone at the hospital that day heard about their situation, and related a story about a boy born 15 days earlier in Salt Lake City with the same heart defect. He had undergone the first of three experimental surgeries and survived.
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Employees
Programs can help kick smoking habit
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, yet many people still smoke despite the obvious health risks. Smoking causes more than 400,000 deaths in the U.S.  each year due to cancer, heart disease, and stroke combined. Of these, half die in middle age, losing an average of 20-25 years of life expectancy. Children of smokers tend to get  more coughs and colds, and their lungs don’t get to be as strong as children of nonsmokers.

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ITD Mailbox
IWG, Public Transportation doing great work
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Gov. Otter, Legislators need input on funding challenges
Have you ever been frustrated by the Treasure Valley’s traffic congestion, and while sitting in traffic said to yourself: “SOMEONE ought to do something about this”? Well, a number of SOMEONE’s are attempting to find a solution to the state’s overall transportation challenges, including those in the Treasure Valley. And Gov. C. L. “Butch” Otter deserves credit for his leadership in sharpening the public policy focus on Idaho’s transportation issues.

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Highways

New Caldwell interchange unveiled Tuesday
Building a modern freeway interchange is not what it used to be. Look at the Interstate 84 Franklin Interchange in Caldwell as an example. ITD removed the ribbon and bow from the new $24.8 million structure Tuesday during a morning ceremony that featured patriotic music and dignitaries pouring the final section of concrete for an adjacent sidewalk.
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4-H group honored for U.S. 95 cleanups

Many of the founding members no doubt have traded their horse for a car and their community service for raising families. But the spirit of the Diaoblos 4-H Horse Club in Hayden Lake lives on, as is evident from a clean U.S. 95. In response to a 4-H call to service, the horse club members formed an Adopt-A-Highway team in 1991, cleaning a two-mile section of Idaho’s primary north-south route four times a year
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Internet safety
Prosecutor warns parents to monitor children's Web use
No responsible parent would hand a blank check to his or her 14-year-old with instructions to go anywhere they want, spend as long as they like and engage in intimate discussions with anyone they meet, including total strangers. Yet millions of young teenagers walk through that open door every day on Web sites that encourage social interaction.
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Olson offers tips to lessen Internet threats
Prosecuting attorney Jared Olson, who specializes in drunk driving cases, offered the following tips to parents on how to keep children safer on social networking Web sites. Olson gave two presentations at Headquarters to near capacity audiences.

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Awards
Safety messages earn two AAMVA honors
Two poignant safety messages earned Idaho’s Division of Motor Vehicles top honors in regional competition sponsored by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. ITD received a PACE (Public Affairs and Consumer Education) award for an externally produced television public service announcement that emphasized motorcycle safety. 
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Going green pays off in AAMVA contest
ITD earned four Outstanding Environmental Leadership Awards in three categories as part of the AAMVA (American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators) Region IV “Green” Contest held for the first time this year.

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HRD training schedule

  Sept. 10, 11 Managing Performance
  Oct. 28-30 Basic Communication
  Nov. 18-20 Intermediate Communication
  Dec. 9-11 Introduction to Supervision
This schedule represents training classes available at Headquarters. For schedules at specific districts, please contact your EST or refer to the training calendar.