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The City of Boise is not the only Idaho entity waiting to. hear from the feds on a major, competitive transportation grant called TIGER, or Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery. Boise, which requested $40 million toward building a downtown streetcar loop, is competing with Valley Regional Transit's $26-million request aimed at improving the bus system infrastructure, a $13-million application from the Ada County Highway District, as well as three requests totaling $170 million from the Idaho Transportation Department and two other Idaho projects.
"The gist of the project is to get all of the capital investments in place to really improve the east-west commutes," said Mary Barker, service planning manager at VRT. "It's basically our 10-year capital plan, all done at one time.""The criteria wasn't set, so it was not really easy to tell how they would be scored," said Toni Tisdale, a planner at the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho, or COMPASS.See the full content of this document
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The City of Boise is not the only Idaho entity waiting to. hear from the feds on a major, competitive transportation grant called TIGER, or Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery. Boise, which requested $40 million toward building ...
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