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Show State Plans Rest Areas on Highway As Safety Measure Utah will embark this fall upon a statewide system of roadside parks as a tourist convenience and traffic safety factor, the State Road Commission announced recently. re-cently. H. J. Corleissen, chairman, said the first six new parks will be started this fall for completion by next spring. . Sites have not yet been determined, deter-mined, he added, but plans are to locate one in each of the six highway maintenance districts in which the state is divided. Mr. Corleissen said the ultimate goal is about 60 such roadside parks, which provide travelers with drinking water, picnic tables, fireplaces, rest rooms and trash boxes. "Another important point is that such parks provide a convenient con-venient place for tired drivers to pull off the road and rest," the chairman explained. "Driver fatigue fat-igue is considered to be one of the major causes of traffic accidents but with modern highways usually us-ually surfaced' right out to the shoulders the tired driver is apt to go on and on without stopping until it is too late." Utah presently has only two such roadside resting places maintained main-tained by the state at Kane Springs between Moab and Monti-cello Monti-cello and a memorial park north of Parowan developed privately and deeded over to the state. Mr. Carleissen said the additional addi-tional areas could be developed at little cost. "We think we can use land (the parks will not exceed half an acre each) already publicly owned; our regular crews will do the construction during their slack season in October and'Nov-ember, and'Nov-ember, and the regular crews can take care of policing up the parks once they are established," he explained. ex-plained. Indigenous trees and shrubs, as recommended by Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural College after soil analysis ana-lysis tests, to be conducted by the college, will provide economical landscaping, the chairman added. |