The Idaho Transportation Department provides a pair of traffic websites, a
Low Bandwidth Site and a
High Bandwidth Site which, as expected, provides more features and better interactivity. The High Bandwidth website contains six separate pages from which one may learn of
Traffic Speeds,
Weather Stations,
Electronic Signs,
Transit Routes,
Mountain Passes, or
Traffic Cameras. On the latter page one may click on the cameras shown on the map to view current road conditions throughout the state. The majority of the rural web cameras have associated weather stations allowing viewers to ascertain local weather conditions and tendencies. Many cameras transmit several different views, from as few as two to as many as eight. These views, instead of being alloted separate pages, are cycled on a single page, changing views every five seconds to every five minutes. The views on this page change every five seconds.
On the south side of I-90 west of Spokane Street and at the west end of a bridge over a railroad, this tower mounts two cameras, looking east and west on I-90. Coordinates given are for the east looking view, toward the other end of the bridge. The cameras are mounted on a rural style fenced steel tower with accompanying weather monitoring instruments.