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Show SAFETY FIRST IS NOW CONSIDERED Highway engineers lire recognizing as never before tlio fact Unit building build-ing fur safely Is one of the greatest responsibilities resting upon tlieni In developing tlie road program of tlio country. "Koad Inillder8 nre ninUIng every effort to build safely Into the road rallier than depend upon warning signs and devices alone to protect the motorist," said I'rof. S. S. Steinberg of the University of Maryland and assistant as-sistant director of the naMonal highway high-way research board, In n recent address. ad-dress. "Many state highway departments, depart-ments, as Maryland, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and many large cities are making a careful study of the causes of highway accidents. "Records are left hy means of a highway map on which a colored pin Is Inserted at the spot on the map where an accident has occurred. A different colored pin Is used for each type of accident An accumulation of pins shows In a graphic manner the location where the construction change Is needed. "Highway engineers ore also relocating relo-cating the main roads to eliminate curves, to avoid railroad grade crossings cross-ings and to reduce steep grades. Incidentally, In-cidentally, these relocations save distance, dis-tance, avoid costly bridges and mean benefit to the motorist in the cost of vehicle operation. "In Illinois a road 150 miles long was relocated almost entirely throughout through-out its length, thereby saving 30 miles of unnecessary distance and eliminating eliminat-ing 31 grade crossings. Relocating the road from Kansas City to St. Louis, a length of about 300 miles, saved 41 miles in distance and eliminated elimi-nated 15 grade crossings." |