Show Road Dial The Utah Highway Department and the Utah Highway Patrol are offering a new road condition information service which may save Utah motorists a lot of inconvenience this BY DIALING can receive a recorded report of current conditions on highways throughout the state by means of a unique recorded-answering system called Announcement The system can play recorded messages up to 56 seconds in length to some six thousand callers an and can answer as many as 28 calls at the same OFFICIALS in the department's Community Relations Division say the sophisticated electronic system is the quickest and most efficient way of getting road condition information to a large number of inquiring During week information for the reports is gathered from the Highway Department's district who have radio contact with the snowplows and road crews in their AT and on weekends and the information is obtained from the Utah Highway Patrol weigh stations and radio During particularly bad other sources of information are such as local sheriffs and police truck drivers and In compiling the the staff members of the Highway Department's Communications and Community Relations Divisions pay close attention to the road conditions at mountain major in-state and out-of-state and roads leading to ski resorts and winter recreation ROADS are listed in the report according to and those with the worst conditions are given top General road conditions throughout the state are described by and roads not specifically mentioned in the report may be assumed to be in the same condition as that described for their general The report contains information on road conditions in adjoining states when they are extremely adverse and travel is not highway officials point out that such conditions are quite subject to change during the few hours of travel time it usually takes to get out of THE ROAD condition reporting service is offered on a Reports are updated as fast as conditions change during and at periodic intervals during good The following roads do not receive winter maintenance and should be considered closed to motorists until next Mirror Lake through Cedar Breaks National through East from Beaver to from Joe's Valley Reservoir to and from Fairview to Winter maintenance will also soon cease on Monte Christo Alpine and Creek Some of these roads are still but motorists who travel them do so at their own MOTORISTS wishing more detailed out-of-state road information than is contained on the Utah recording may call the following numbers for recordings of conditions in adjoining and |