Changes are likely coming to Eagle Road.
The Idaho Transportation Department is proposing a pilot project that will include more safety signs, prohibiting left turns at intersections that do not have traffic signals, and the implementation of variable speed limits.
The variable speed limits in ITDs pilot project would alternate the speed limit from its current 55 mph threshold down to 45 mph during peak traffic times.
The project will go from State Highway 44 to Interstate 84, about an eight-mile stretch of road running north-south from Eagle to Meridian, with electronic variable speed limit signage from Franklin Road to Chinden Boulevard. The variable speed limits are similar to what has been used in various Idaho construction zones on Interstate 84.
“To ITD’s knowledge, this would be the first variable speed limit corridor on a six mile long, signalized, urban highway corridor in the United States,” ITD spokesperson Sophia Miraglio said.
Changes will begin as early as this fall, when ITD is planning on increasing safety signs along Eagle Road and closing off unsignalized left turns at various intersections. Eagle Road intersections at Meadowdale Street and Baldcypress Street will be effected by these changes, along with U-turns near Ustick Road and Lanark Street, Miraglio said.