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Who Controls Idaho’s Road Signs | Boise News
When Idaho’s 70 mph truck speed limit signs mysteriously vanished last month, it sparked a bigger question: who really runs the road signs? The answer? It’s a shared job between the state and local cities like Nampa. Cities manage everyday signs—stop, one-way, warnings—over 17,000 of them—but state highways? That’s ITD’s turf. Emergency signs get fixed fast; no-parking signs? Not so urgent. And here’s the twist: many signs are printed in-house on reflective material, even reprinted over old ones when possible. All must meet federal specs, then recycled or reused. It’s a complex…
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