[Hawk]

The Boise City Council has rejected ACHD's latest revised plan for bike lanes on Capitol Boulevard at a work session the afternoon of Sept. 30.

A new proposal, put forth by ACHD engineers, would retain 11-foot automobile travel lanes down the length of Capitol Boulevard by reducing a 3.5-foot buffer lane between Valley Regional Transit busses and car traffic by two feet. In front of City Hall, a buffer between bike and VRT bus traffic would be reduced and the bus lane itself would be narrowed from 17 feet to 15 feet.

That didn't sit well with members of the City Council, who said that narrowing city streets organically reduced car speeds without resorting to writing speeders tickets, and that in other metropolitan areas, 10-foot car traffic lanes are the norm, not the exception.
click to enlarge Details of a bike lane proposal made by stakeholders to the Boise City Council and the ACHD.

"This is an area where we need to acknowledge that this is an urban area and not a suburban arterial," said City Council Member Elaine Clegg.

Boise Weekly Article: http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/...bike-lane-plan
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I'm really getting tired of this piss fit between ACHD and our city. It makes me wonder why we haven't already just bought the roads within the city limits.