The Idaho Transportation Board will visit several major construction sites north of Coeur d'Alene next week as part of its scheduled tour and business meeting Wednesday and Thursday. The annual trip to northern Idaho will begin with a tour on Wednesday. The first stop will be at the U.S. 2, Dover Bridge project where a 1937-vintage structure over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks is being replaced.
The kiosk in the lobby of the Headquarters building was installed to make it more convenient for customers paying license reinstatements, registration renewals, obtaining driving records and accessing permits and commercial vehicle transactions. For that reason, the terminals also are located in select Ports of Entry - East Boise, Sage Junction, Heutter and Inkom. This one in the HQ Lobby has been in use for about three weeks.
Chuck Clevenstine, who works in Enterprise Technology Services at Headquarters, met Sharron Svir of Financial Serves while on break a year ago. The ensuring friendship led to an exchange of wedding vows July 17 in Lake Tahoe. Congratulations to the newlyweds..
Pilots now have a new opportunity to appreciate the beauty of Idaho's pristine mountains and remote valleys – from the air and from the ground. At the same time, they can touch a colorful piece of Idaho history. With a few touchdowns and a gala "tailgate" party, the Reed Ranch Airstrip formally became part of Idaho's backcountry airstrip system Friday (July 30).
ITD's Office of Highway Operations and Safety (OHOS) received a national excellence award for its work to develop a "Northwest Passage Pooled Fund" project, The award was for "The Best New Innovative Practice," and was presented recently at the National Rural Intelligent Transportation Systems conference in Huntington, W.Va., according to OHOS Engineer Brent Jennings.