Public Transportation

Last month, a street on the Boise Bench was closed to cars for the Boise Bicycle Project’s “Open Streets Boise” event. The ACHD was there talking about its “Commuteride” program, which encourages finding different ways to travel to work than cars.

On August 13, 2024, Eagle City Council members met to approve their 2025 fiscal budget. With this approval, the Eagle On-Demand (line 160) run by Valley Regional Transit (VRT) will be no longer available as of Oct. 1 due to a cut of funding by the city.

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.