30th Street Specific Area Plan, Main Street to State Street
Sponsor: City of Boise and Ada County Highway District
Status: Ongoing in 2008

ACHD, as part of the 1995 Bench/Valley Study, is proceeding with design of this extension that is intended to alleviate traffic on 27 th Street and 23 rd Street in Boise . The joint effort with the City of Boise resulted in a recently completed design charrette to identify mutually-supportive land use and transportation design to promote greater multi-modal traffic and facilitate movement to the planned regional park.

 

Access Management Toolkit (9MB)
Source: COMPASS
Status: Completed, August 2008

The Board adopted the Access Management Toolkit as part of a grant received from the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) and the Federal Transit Administrations (FTA). Additional tasks include assisting member agencies in using adopting portions of the guidebook, and assisting member agencies in coordinating access permits.

 

ACHD Capital Improvements Plan
Sponsor: Ada County Highway District
Status: Completed every three years

The Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) is a more strategic document that indicates projects that are anticipated to be needed in the next 20 years based on traffic demand models and assumptions on growth patterns. While the CIP lists project years and funding estimates, this is largely a planning document and the projects will be further refined as they move onto the Five-Year Work Plan and undergo greater analysis. The Plan was last updated in 2006.

 

Ada County and Canyon CountyPark-and-Ride Lot Location Study
Sponsor: Ada County Highway District and Valley Regional Transit
Status: Expected to Start in April 2008

The Ada County Highway District (ACHD) and Valley Regional Transit (VRT) will conduct a study of future Park and Ride facilities based on expected needs in Ada County and Canyon County including Boise, Caldwell, Eagle, Garden City, Greenleaf, Kuna, Melba, Meridian, Middleton, Nampa, Notus, Parma, Star, Wilder and in the unincorporated areas of Ada and Canyon Counties. The potential Park and Ride lots will need to accommodate enough parking spaces to serve the needs of the area, necessary storage spaces/lockers for bicycles and adequate facilities to provide a location for bus pick-up and drop-offs and other potential future transit facilities.

 

Ada County Roundabout Policy Study, Including Amity Road Corridor Roundabout Concept Study
Sponsor: Ada County Highway District
Status:Ongoing in 2008

Study will develop roundabout feasibility and design guidelines for Ada County. The Amity portion of the study was identified in Communities in Motion as a key corridor between Nampa and Ada County. ACHD is conducting a study to determine appropriate roundabout locations to complement planned roundabouts in Nampa.

 

Blueprint for Good Growth (Ada Guide Plan)
Sponsors: Consortium of all Ada County government entities
Status: Ongoing in 2008

The project involves a public process and the drafting of a county-wide land use guide plan to manage growth in Ada County . This study will be coordinated with, and complementary to, the Transportation Study for Communities in Motion, the Regional Long-Range Transportation Plan prepared by COMPASS concurrent with this project. There will be no duplication of services between this project and Communities in Motion. See project web page for updates.

 

Boise Park-and-Ride Study
Sponsor: Ada County Highway District
Status: Dependent upon receipt of the Federal Transit funds in 2008.

Commuteride is applying for Federal Transit Administration funds for a Park-and-Ride lot in Boise along I-84 between Cole and Broadway. This study will be dependent upon receipt of these Federal Transit funds in early 2008.

 

Bowmont Road Corridor Study, SH 45 to Canyon/Ada County Line
Sponsor: Nampa Highway District
Status: To begin in 2008

Identified in Communities in Motion as a future regional corridor that connects SH-45 to the ACHD Kuna-Mora Corridor. NHD will examine long-term function of the road to determine preferred alignments, setbacks and access management standards, in concert with planned land uses. A major portion of the study includes identification of alignments near the County line to connect to ACHD's Kuna-Mora Corridor and to McDermott Road which is also identified Communities in Motion as a major corridor and potential expressway.

 

City of Middleton Master Transportation Plan
Sponsor: City of Middleton and Canyon Highway District #4
Status: Completed August 2007

The Master Transportation Plan provides guidelines for future transportation project developments and programs and assists the City in achieving goals and objectives in the City's Comprehensive Plan.  The MTP plays a vital role in determining how the City and surrounding areas will grow and accommodate growth in the future.

 

Cloverdale Road Corridor Study, Interstate 84 to U.S Highway 20-26 (Chinden Blvd) Sponsor: Ada County Highway District
Status: Project is on hold pending information from the West Bench Circulation Study

Identified in Communities in Motion. The Concept Design will identify alternatives that address: safety, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, parallel routes, project features, incorporation of design work already completed within the corridor, future traffic demand and ACHD's Safe Route to School program.

The Cloverdale Concept Design has been placed on hold while ACHD completes a broader evaluation of the north-south roadways in the West Bench area. The new project, named the West Bench Circulation Study is one that will evaluate both 3-lane and 5-lane alternatives for Cloverdale Road, Five Mile Road and Maple Grove Road, generally between Chinden and Fairview. These roadway segments are currently planned as 5-lane facilities in the ACHD Capital Improvements Plan and other planning documents. This study will evaluate the feasibility of constraining these segments to 3-lanes.