I’ll get on my soap box again about Bieter’s trolley route. If you think that the Boise Art Museum might look naked now that the City took down all the trees in front (that the E.D. is now refusing to pay for.) just wait until the trees at Tourist Rest Stop Park (between Capitol and 9th, south side of the river) come down and are replaced with pavement and lights and crosswalks. All within spitting distance of the Greenbelt. So much for the aesthetic viewshed for the Capitol Blvd bridge (that the City paid big bucks to repaint a couple of years ago) and the river corridor and the Capitol building. Not to mention the other end of the trolley route, which is in Robert Noble Park. One of the founding (white) fathers of Idaho, never mind Boise. A park that is deed restricted. We need pavement more than we need to protect what makes us Boise, or pay attention to silly promises that we made a century ago. Progress, you know. Grow (pave it all, sprawl, no-fee permits to important developers) or die, right?

EDITOR NOTE–Doggone, you sound just like a GROTHOPHOBE–oppose growth that is only for the sake of growth. I just returned from a leisurely drive to California where I honestly had a woman APOLOGIZE for all the Golden Staters moving to Idaho! Some of the places are as quaint as Boise used to be. S.F. has bought into the bike craze and last year they killed off five and injured many more. Monterey hasn’t changed much in years and seems to be well organized, even with bike routes and bike lanes.

Last week it was excusing team dave on foothills development, now they come in late on tracks in our streets and don’t question a thing, just more repeating Bieter’s talking beard guy. Trump will put a stop to this stuff.

Uber now has UberCOMMUTE.
Kind of like the wasteful and expensive Commuterride, but since Uber is a private entrepreneurship operation it works.

Imagine NO BUSES and instead our community embraces the “on demand economy”- you know, ‘the future’.
Even the Valley Ride employees could be driving smaller vans, and then on demand based on a phone app, they could respond to requests to public transportation – as needed.

Those Commuterride vans sit all day at someone’s place of business- inefficient- the buses drive around all day for 1 passenger- inefficient; a software solution could combine both of those operations into an efficient public transportation.
Commuting during the morning and evening rush and utilized for on demand public transportation the rest of the day, 24/7. No $500,000 /10 ton bus required.

However there are too many old people running the show.

I agree with you on the deciders, a reason we left Boise City for Eagle. But when we moved here in the early 1990’s Boise was ranked #1 in Outside Magazine for best work and play – taxes, schools, median home price, low crime + close to white water, bike trails, fishing, skiing, etc. The “list” was right and had value for us as we chose where to relocate.