Comments on: Surprise! Traffic Has Increased

By: john

john — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:22:50 +0000

Steve, I like to think of it as the “Phoenix of the North” LA’s got the beach. They can’t go any farther in that direction. We can have “Smart Growth” in all directions here.

I think ACHD building a test traffic circle in Canyon County is just wrong. What a mean trick.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:18:16 +0000

In 25 years, Treasure Valley will most likely be “L.A. to the North,” based on current trends. Houses are seemingly going up on every flat patch of land. In the vast majority of cases, work, shopping, school, and entertainment are farther than people seem to be willing to walk or bike-ride… so zoom-zoom they go. Too many vehicles clog the infrastructure, and the rules become guidelines, since they’re routinely being violated.

If I were shopping for a house, I’d think long and hard before deciding on Heaven’s Little Half-acre, out there somewhere between Podunk and South Podunk. There will be an increasingly heavy price to pay, both financially and socially, as the years go passing by. Gas was $3 last year; maybe it’ll peak at $3.50 or $4 this year. And traffic is unlikely to get better. COMPASS predicts that if current trends continue, a 2-hour commute (to Boise) will be fairly routine.

But at least you’ve got Howard Stern on your satellite radio, huh?

By: Inside

Inside — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:05:18 +0000

I bet the report did not mention that ACHD does not care about the fact that many of our neighborhood streets FAR EXCEED the 1000 car trips per day threshold. AND I bet they did not report that MANY EVEN EXCEED THE MAXIMUM limit of 2000 car trips a day.

I recall ACHD Commissioner Huber once saying at an ACHD hearing that “the ACHD rules for street loads are more like “guidelines” and we don’t follow them anyway. The problem occurs becuase of the City of Boise’s dense zoning practices.” (How do you say “pass the buck?”)

I recall a Pirate movie with a Pirate Motto of similar phrasing……ACHD and Pirates? Ummmm