I-way Blog

by Clif Warren, District 1 Mobility Manager Read more...

by David Doran, District 5 Mobility Manager  Read more...

by Suzanne Seigneur, CTAI RideShare Coordinator Read more...

by John Murray, District 2 Mobility Manager Read more...

I was moved by Slate.com's article “Is Your Commute Killing You?”, so I wanted to build upon it. It has been a while ago, but the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has made some recommendations as our health and safety applies to transportation actions.  Read more...

A Blog by Vanessa Fry, CTAI District 4 Mobility Manager Read more...

By Brett Nelson, CTAI District 5 Mobility Manager  Read more...

Written by Brooke Green, with Monique Johns, Idaho State Independent Living Council Read more...

The last ten years has seen significant battling over winter use in Yellowstone National Park. With no final resolution, the National Park Service (NPS) has been operating under an interim winter use plan since 2009. But that plan expired on March 15 of this year when the 2010-2011 winter season ended. With an expired plan, there is as of now, no legal authority to operate snowmobiles or other over-the-snow vehicles (OSV) in the park. But with winter leaving, and the Draft Economic Impact Statement (DEIS) just released for a new winter use plan, there is time.  Read more...

Performance measures are something that we continually struggle to develop and monitor throughout the state. Last November, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report related to performance measures, Federal Transit Administration Has Opportunity to Improve Performance Accountability. The GAO conducted this study due to the fact that although the demand for public transportation funding continues to increase around the nation most of the federal funding awardedis not tied to performance measures. Recommendations from the report include having the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) report to Congress on options for adding performance accountability mechanisms to transit programs to increase efficiency and effectiveness and for analyzing and usingtransit data for further evaluation of federal transit program performance.  Read more...