Comments on: ACHD Assets Used For Race

By: runningfor the first tim

runningfor the first tim — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:58:49 +0000

Can you all whine a little more….get over your self

By: JimBurber

JimBurber — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:59:03 +0000

I have an idea that would make everyone happy. How about the organizers of this much beloved race push it later in the spring or early summer when snow plowing would not be necessary. Next, ACHD stop spending my tax money in counties other than Ada. God I’m good.

By: boisecynic

boisecynic — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:48:29 +0000

Clancy wrote:

“… they donated $57,200 in 2007 to local organizations….”

Sorry Clancy, but that’s a red herring. First, I think they have to give their profits away to maintain their non-profit status. I’m guessing R to R is a 501c3. Don’t know for sure, though.

Besides, I didn’t see any donation to ACHD, why not? Why not donate to ACHD an amount equal to the cost of the plowing. I don’t buy the preventative plowing argument, like I asked, and nobody answered, why don’t they do the 8th St extension as well.

Truth and Reason wrote:

“Much ado about nothing.”

I disagree. This is one sweet example among many. Together, they add up to big bucks. Over the years, I’ve been a staunch supporter of ACHD, but not on this issue.

Finally, sorry for being a broken record, but in my neighborhood, 27th St, between Main and State is the busiest residential street in all of Ada County. ACHD, and no other local or State gov’t entity has spent any significant amount of money in the West End for many years. We pay taxes just like everyone else.

That is why the Veterans Park Neighborhood Association is now getting organized after years of inactivity. If we’re going to pay taxes, then we would like some of it spent in our neigborhood, at least once in a while.

By: Boise Guy

Boise Guy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:22:01 +0000

Its simple, if you want to have an event, you are expected to pay for whatever improvements or changes are needed to hold it.

How are these people exempt from that simple rule?

Pass the cost on to the registration fees for these people.

By: Truth & Reason

Truth & Reason — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:06:47 +0000

Much to about nothing.

By: Johndoe

Johndoe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:28:48 +0000

Jane,

Regarding you comment that, “It was certainely a lot more peacfull living around here when everyone was not trying to point out dirt on the other.”

While just about every road in the county west of Cole is a traffic disaster right now, ACHD is spending $20 million to build the east parkcenter bridge to a serve a subdivision that won’t mature for 20 years. Seems to me we cannot assign enough auditors to monitor that band of incompetents.

By: ericn1300

ericn1300 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:02:33 +0000

Oh, wow! Until the pics in this posting I didn’t know that ACHD even owned a rotary snow plow, kind of a special tool for a county that’s mostly flat and desert. And how do the Boise County crews get up there to grade the road if the deeper backside of the mountain road isn’t plowed?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:50:40 +0000

Heck, I dunno whether it’s good or bad that the outfit that says it won’t clean it’s own roads unless they’re really, really, really bad cuz it doesn’t have equipment, money, personnel or whatever will clean up for the race.
But why not just give each of the racers a pair of snowshoes and let ’em race regardless of conditions. Heck, anybody who’s crazy enough — er, I mean tough enough — to run up that hill oughta be crazy — er, tough — enough to do at least part of it on snowshoes.
C’mon, wimps!

By: janedoe

janedoe — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:51:17 +0000

I have always felt that the best place in this country is on the same lane as the county commissioner or road dept chairman. Your potholes are filled and your snow is plowed.

I also feel that the ACHD plowing of Robie Creek Rd is appropriate. It was certainely a lot more peacfull living around here when everyone was not trying to point out dirt on the other. In this case as pointed out, ACHD would be damned if they didn’t and they are being damned because they did.

By: Steve Stuebner

Steve Stuebner — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:20:48 +0000

Hey folks,

The Race to Robie Creek is a great race, a great event that that draws thousands of people who have a great time while improving their health and fitness. I don’t have any heartburn with ACHD for plowing Rocky Canyon Road, even if most of the snow-bound portion of the road lies in Boise County.

What does really make me mad every fall is when ACHD goes into Rocky Canyon with a cat and a side blade and they whack the hell out of the vegetation next to Cottonwood Creek to improve visibility on the single-lane dirt road. They overdo it every time, destroying a ton of bird habitat and the riparian area.