Public Transportation

The service, run by the transit company Downtowner, operates like Uber, allowing people to request rides through an app or by making a phone call.

The effort to bring passenger rail service back through Boise has hit high gear after the federal government allocated millions of dollars to study where in the United States to focus on expanding Amtrak service.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is spending nearly $1.7 billion to modernize and electrify bus systems across the country. Grants were awarded to communities in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Montana.

Transportation officials in Colorado and Wyoming are collaborating on a mass transit feasibility study as they consider adding a new bus route between Cheyenne, Wyo., and the northern Front Range in Colorado.

Boise, like most American cities, has been trying to design a community, project-by-project, for quite some time. But that was then.

City Club panelists share thoughts on Idaho's infrastructure and state and federal investments in roads, bridges, broadband, water, transportation and energy.

The official census results, set to be certified early next year, mean Twin Falls is required to form a Metropolitan Planning Organization, or an MPO, to oversee transit.

A pilot project for a new public bus route in south central Idaho just received more funding, allowing it to continue into next year.

In Idaho’s capital city, transportation leaders are hopeful federal infrastructure funding will get passed. eventually get passed out and they have big plans for how they would use it to improve public transit.

Idaho Matters checks in with Valley Regional Transit about how the bus system has dealt with the pandemic, and how they aim to get more people out of cars and on the bus.