As an occasional bike rider, and a frequent car driver in the downtown, I can tell you anything that would encourage safety is welcome.

Regarding adding 1500′ to Bogus, you’re spot on. Where do we get the fill? The Boise River. Over the years flood control has allowed many islands to build up. Ironically, those islands reduce channel capacity adding to flood potential.

All we need to do is scour the river bed and truck the material to the top of the South Face and dump it over. It’s not like the South Face gets much use anyway. In a few hundred years we’ll have our raised Bogus. As a bonus it could produce a better kayak run down the entire river from Barber to Caldwell and help reduce tuber traffic congestion.

Also, when we tear down the 4 Snake River dams and all the Columbia dams that concrete has to go somewhere. I say dump it down the South Face. Grand Coulee alone could add 200′ to 300′ to the top of Bogus.

They are trying to capture some of the spill-over from the over-priced resort towns in CO, UT, CA, NV. These places are so expensive, only 1:100,000 families can afford to own there.

TeamDave knows Boise is failing due to massive loss of high-wage jobs. If they want to keep spending tax money like drunken sailors, they must turn Boise into a tourist destination where rich people will keep one of their two or more homes. The ultra rich are not interested, but the millionaires who can’t afford Vail/SunValley might be.

So TeamDave needs to give Boise that Vail/Sun Valley feel to attract the rich.

This great idea will fall flat however, until a massive tramway runs from Boise Airport to Bogus (this is why all the extra parking at the airport). Also Bogus needs to be expanded into a massive four season fun-zone for granola people.

The resort in Donnelly failed because of transportation isolation, Sun Valley is also limited by this with a crummy airport location/size. Boise is extremely accessible, and simply needs another 1500 ft. of elevation on the mountain. TeamDave is writing a grant to have our mountain raised by Obama. TeamDave promised Obama the Idaho vote in 2016 by adding 30,000 more refugees to the bench. Ada county, and therefore Idaho, will vote Democrat again.

It’s the similar concept to attracting the over-paid Californians to Eagle a few years ago. Now that those folks are bankrupt, TeamDave needs a new group to feed off of.

EDITOR NOTE–You are 10 days late on this April Fool post.

While traffic volume remains level, the amount of congestion may rise but not signifigantly.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bike-lanes-dont-cause-traffic-jams-if-youre-smart-about-where-you-build-them/#fn-1

You are certainly right about the yielding to pedestrians, but ACHD has gone off and screwed that up IMO. Someone asked for a sign or button crosswalk and they get it.

When there is a “stop when occupied sign” people are more likely to obey IT. That makes them more likely to ignore the law when there is not a sign-well there wasn’t a sign there. There should not be any “reminder” signs at any intersection. IT”S THE LAW. But it’s also very dangerous when the 1 do-gooder stops for the ped, the ped walks into the street while talking on their phone and ignores the second lane of traffic.

Crosswalk reminder signs are like putting a reminder sign next to a red stop sign. “It’s the law to stop here” Dumb, a waste of money and counterproductive to the objective.

Enforcement. And also enforcement jaywalking downtown as well… but jaywalking doesn’t pay like DUIs, so BPD is too busy following cars out of downtown waiting for them to not signal a lane change.
Back on topic– downtown plan.. oh yeah. Maybe BPD could help with “the plan”?

We’re saying the same thing…’build it and they will come’ is a metaphor for incorrectly designing/forming first, hoping for a specific outcome or functionality secondarily (the correct, albeit old adage is “form follows function”). Designing in hopes of luring more bike commuters and walkers while supposedly eliminating cars is the same. It’s backward.

Few Boise drivers behave as if they know this rule. In cities where this law is enforced—Moscow comes to mind—it is observed and crossing the street is much more pleasant. I have never seen a driver in Boise pulled over for not yielding to a pedestrian.

In Boise the bias is toward motorized traffic. A good example, since corrected by signalizing the intersection, was for the first few years after the new courthouse was built, there were signs prohibiting the use of the Front/2nd St. crosswalks and directing pedestrians to walk a blocktwo blocks out of their way to cross Front! There are numerous other examples.