SH-55, Pear Lane to Farmway Road

Next Steps

ITD will host an open house in 2026 to present roadway widening improvements for comment and feedback to the public. We are currently identifying property that needs to be purchased between Pear Lane and Farmway Road.  More information will become available once design adjustments are complete and the Open House meeting is scheduled.

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Background

In 2022, ITD completed an environmental analysis and preliminary design plans for SH-55 from Pear Lane to Middleton Road. ITD has since reevaluated the traffic analysis and reassured need for the project, with improvements implemented in a “phased approach” on this corridor.

The Farmway Road to Middleton Road section was found to have the most crashes and highest traffic counts in the corridor. The process to design improvements to this section of SH-55 began in 2021 and the project is currently under construction. To learn more about that project, please click here.

Funding

The SH-55 Pear Lane to Farmway Road final design and right-of-way acquisition are being funded with Transportation Expansion and Congestion Mitigation (TECM) funds as part of Governor Little’s Leading Idaho Program. The program allows ITD to accelerate project timelines to address rapid growth and build critical infrastructure today that would otherwise take many years to fund and build.

SH-55 is a primary transportation and freight corridor through Idaho.

For more information on TECM funding, visit itd.idaho.gov/funding

Project Timeline

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