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Boise Bench Bike Paths Projected to Cost $1.7 Million

Posted on October 25, 2018

Boise (670 KBOI News) – It’s definitely not going to be your father’s bike lane.

At Wednesday night’s meeting, the Ada County Highway District approved a plan to build six miles of bike lanes on the Boise Bench, along Cassia and Shoshone Streets.

Spokeswoman Natalie Shaver says the project isn’t out to bid yet, but it it will probably cost around $1.7 million dollars.

“It would be $700,000 for Shoshone, and about a million for Cassia,” said Shaver.

That works out to over $283,000 per mile. But Shaver says it’ll have a lot of features, including “Hawk” signals, those flashing pedestrian crossing signals, which stop traffic.

Hawk Signal

“But those can run $100,000 to $200,000,” Shaver continued.  “That’s the kind of stuff we’re putting in, when you add in the cost of putting in a bridge and a mini-roundabout, that’s where those costs add up.”

Construction could start in 2020 on the Cassia Street stretch, and in 2021 on the Shoshone section.

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