Comments and Questions

Let’s Ride Treasure Valley!

Weigh in on Potential Future High-Capacity Transit in the Treasure Valley

Could high-capacity transit help meet the needs of the Treasure Valley’s growing population? You tell us!

Join us for one of two open houses to share your input as we continue the Let’s Ride Treasure Valley! study, looking at potential future high-capacity transit options to connect the Cities of Caldwell, Nampa, Meridian, and Boise.

Learn more and share your input in person:

Attend one of two identical open houses to learn more and share your input on the route/mode combinations, analysis results, and options proposed to move forward in the study.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
COMPASS
700 NE 2nd Street, Meridian
5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Nampa Public Library
215 12th Avenue South
5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

No time to attend an open house?

That’s OK. There are other options to learn more, submit comments, and ask questions:

• Online: https://compassidaho.org/public-transportation-high-capacity-transit/
• Email: [email protected]
• US mail: COMPASS, 700 NE 2nd Street, Suite 200, Meridian, ID 83642
• Request materials be mailed to you: 208/855-2558 or [email protected]

Please submit all comments no later than 11:59 pm, Sunday, March 2, 2025.

NOTICE: This is a Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) study, and all draft and final planning products produced during this PEL process may be adopted during a subsequent environmental review process in accordance with 23 USC 168, with the goal of not revisiting during future National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) processes.

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Connect with COMPASS!

Learn how you can connect with COMPASS to stay informed and have your voice heard.

• • • Link to Connect with COMPASS brochure in English
    • Link to Connect with COMPASS brochure in Spanish
    • Link to COMPASS Participation and Antidiscrimination Plans

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• • Amendment #6 to the FY2024-2030 and Amendment #2 to the FY2025-2031 Regional Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPs)
    • Public Comments Verbatim
    • Public Comment Period: October 28 – November 11, 2024
    • Topic: To add six projects, four through nationally competitive grants and two through state and local programs. Additionally, this amendment advances a project to rebuild Middleton Road from State Highway 55 (Karcher Road) to Flamingo Avenue in the City of Nampa to FY2025.
  • Let’s Ride Treasure Valley High-Capacity Transit Study, input into purpose, need, and Tier 1 evaluation
    • Comment summary
    • Comment period: September 22 – October 11, 2024
  • Amendment #5 to the long-range transportation plan, Communities in Motion 2050, and the FY2024-2030 and FY2025-2031 Regional Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPs)
    • Public Comments Verbatim
    • Comment period: September 2 – 16, 2024
    • Topic: For Communities in Motion 2050, this amendment will change a project to widen State Highway 16 from State Highway 44 to Beacon Light Road from unfunded to funded. For the TIPs, this amendment adds two projects, one to plan and design improvements to four roads in the City of Notus and one to replace Valley Regional Transit buses and expand and improve the transit center at the Boise Towne Square Mall.
  • Amendment #4 to the long-range transportation plan, Communities in Motion 2050, an amendment to the FY2024-2030 Transportation Improvement Program, and the DRAFT FY2025-2031 Transportation Improvement Program
    • Public Comments Verbatim
    • Public Comment Period: July 1 – July 31, 2024
    • Topic: To add and remove one project in the FY2024-2030 TIP and comment on the draft FY2025-2031 TIP.