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Idaho Transportation
Department

Public Affairs Office


P.O. Box 7129
Boise, ID 83707
208.334.8005
Fax: 208.334.*
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9-15-06

Transportation board to meet in District 5
The Idaho Transportation Board’s final road tour of the year this week in District 5 will focus on southeastern Idaho. Wednesday the board will participate in a reopening ceremony in Franklin for a recently completed U. s. 91 project that expanded 20 miles of historic highway into a divided four-lane route.
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Board approves funds for four projects
The Idaho Transportation Board voted last week to use $14.4 million in additional federal funding to finance four statewide highway improvement projects. The additional funds come from a redistribution of federal highway monies not used by other states. Idaho is expected to receive $14.4 million, a record amount.
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Inmates, church members to be honored for cleanups
Two southeast Idaho groups come from strikingly different backgrounds but are united by a common goal of leaving the world a better, cleaner place. Members of the Jason Lee United Methodist Church and custodians of the power county Sheriffs Office will be honored next week for their shared commitment to clean Idaho’s highways of refuse left behind by others.
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Ceremony planned for expanded U.S. 91
A route that brought the first settlers to Idaho and helped establish the state's first community will be ceremonially reopened after an 18-month reconstruction project, the Idaho Transportation Department announced. The ceremony, featuring city officials from Preston and Franklin, a state legislator and local historian, is planned at the Franklin city park adjacent to the highway, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
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Archaeologists play major role in construction projects
Before workers and heavy equipment begin carving out the Sand Creek Byway route in Sandpoint, archaeologists will have to complete one of the largest testing and data recovery projects ITD has ever undertaken. The Byway will be built at a junction once used by Native Americans traveling to Montana in search of buffalo or northward to the Kootenay area of Canada. The area also was the site of a construction camp for the Northern Pacific Railroad in the 1880s.
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Disaster program team holds 2nd annual conference
ITD’s emergency planning will take another major step with development of a statewide alternate route/detour plan that will begin taking shape in the near future. A private consultant is analyzing Idaho’s transportation routes and will produce an extensive plan for implementing alternate routes in the event of a major disaster or emergency.

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