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Originally Posted by plutonicpanda
Have the leaders that be in the greater Boise metro mentioned anything about a metro system? Need to at least start planning the growth there is insane.
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they've been talking about a metro system for years, if not decades.
our former mayor was aggressively seeking to build a downtown streetcar system as a starting point that would eventually expand and connect to other parts of the valley. but whining about funding (among other things) killed any chance of seeing it become a reality:
https://boisedev.com/project/downtow...tor-streetcar/
our current mayor has more of a "wait and see" attitude hoping that a new cheap transit solution or technology appears:
https://boisedev.com/news/2020/01/13...se-circulator/
interestingly, the Boise metro did have a very nice and expansive streetcar system 100 years ago, and some of the original tracks are still buried under the streets.
meanwhile, the Treasure Valley today has zero movement on improving transit other than widening the interstate and building more expressways.