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No Huetter Bypass

KMPO has spent more than 20 years trying to build support for the Huetter Road Corridor. We track the Rathdrum Prairie transportation study and put the community's comments on the record.

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  1. Communications ·

    Reply to ITD: Rathdrum Prairie Area and the Draft FY2027–FY2033 ITIP

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    The No Huetter Bypass Group's reply to the Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD) September 4, 2026 answer to its comments on the Draft FY2027–FY2033 Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP). It asks ITD to analyze the Rathdrum Prairie road network as one system, with state and local projects, signals and costs on one table, before any new alignment advances, and to reconcile and explain the Key Number 24395 interchange row and the Key Number 23349 study funding.

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    Response to the ITD District 1 Letter of September 4, 2026

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    The No Huetter Bypass Group's reply to the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) District 1 letter of September 4, 2026 on the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Study (Key Number 23349). It answers ITD's letter section by section, documents the record gaps that remain, and asks for a bounded public re-screen of lower-taking packages on existing corridors and publication of the screening data before any PEL product moves into NEPA.

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    ITD Response to Draft ITIP Comments on the Rathdrum Prairie Area Transportation Study

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    The Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD) reply to comments on the Draft Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP) for fiscal years 2027-2033. ITD defends the I-90 widening and the Rathdrum Prairie Area Transportation Study (KN 23349), confirms that the I-90/US-95 Interchange reconstruction (KN 24395) has been moved to Unfunded, and answers each of the six requested actions.

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    ITD Response to the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Level 3 Response

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    The Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD) reply to the No Huetter Bypass Group's Rathdrum Prairie PEL Level 3 Response. ITD District 1 answers each section of the letter, points to the Level 3 public meeting materials for cost, right-of-way and traffic data, and directs requests for other records to ITD's public records process.

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    Letter to Idaho State Legislators: Urgent Oversight Request on the Rathdrum Prairie PEL Study

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    The No Huetter Bypass Group's letter to the nine Idaho state legislators for Kootenai County (Districts 3, 4 and 5) on deficient road planning, budgeting and community engagement by ITD District 1 and KMPO on the Rathdrum Prairie PEL study, asking them to tell ITD and KMPO to keep the alternatives on US-95 and existing corridors, not to recommend Alternative H for NEPA, and to stop taking land for "future use."

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    Draft Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP) – ITD Spending Reduction Letter

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    A formal public comment letter regarding the Draft Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP). The letter urges an immediate course correction on over $1.3 billion in unfunded and deferred highway projects, demanding the defunding of unneeded capacity expansions (I-90 widening, Key Number 23349 Rathdrum Prairie PEL Study, and Key Number 24395 I-90/US-95 Interchange reconstruction) in favor of proven operational, access-management, and safety countermeasures within existing rights-of-way.

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    Rathdrum Prairie PEL Level 3 Response

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    A comprehensive summary of five years of analysis regarding the Rathdrum Prairie Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) Study. The report details the procedural departure from holistic planning, empirical traffic constraints on US-95, institutional track record failures on SH-41, lack of transparency and cost inflation for Alternative H, and Fifth Amendment takings concerns.

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