STATE HIGHWAY 55 IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
A MAJOR INTERSTATE CONNECTOR
The purpose of this project is to upgrade SH-55 to an suburban/rural expressway with signalized intersections. upgrades include widening the rural section of the corridor to a 4 lane divided expressway with left and right turn lanes at major intersections and a 6-7 lane divided expressway from the boulevard to west of Midleton Rd. Also there will be operational improvements made to the highway, as well as a landscaped median in the urban section.
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PROJECT BACKGROUND
Since Idaho 55 is one of Idaho's Major highways special attention needs to be paid to upgrading the facility especially the souther section from Nampa to West of Marsing since it is Boise's Major connection to the southwestern states via US-95. A major trucking route to Nevada and California. Increased traffic on this corridor has made it increasingly unsafe and traffic fatalities will soon become a major problem if the road is not upgraded soon.
TENTATIVE DETAILS
XROADS VISION FOR SH-44
This road needs serious attention due to it's importance to interstate traffic. To maximize safety of the design the road should be divided by a wide median or landscaped median with other restraint barriers as necessary. The roadway design featrues should also include high speed left and right turn lanes at intersections to allow traffic to slow down without blocking the thru lanes. The turns east of Marsing should be redesigned to allow for a average 70% of 70 mph so that the design speed of the rural stretch can be 65mph, and 45-55mph for the urban sections.
Once Completed the project will reduce travel times. Avoid unsafe passing and turning maneuvers. as well as improve interstate traffic flow.
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Updated 01/10/2007