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Show Df 1946. 4 The study showed that 561 accidents acci-dents and 18 fatal accidents occurred oc-curred on unlighted Utah roadways road-ways the first half of this year. A total of 76 fatal accidents were recorded during this period, with 38 occurring during hours of darkness dark-ness when there was only one-third one-third the volume of daytime traffic. traf-fic. Installation- of modern traffic safety lighting at hazardous sections sec-tions of Utah's urban and rural streets and highways ' would reduce re-duce these night-time accidents and deaths by at least 50 per cent, said the bureau. At the present time the majority of Utah's streets and highways are lighted inadequately for traffic safety. MANY SCHOOLS ARE 4 STILL LOCATED ON MUD HIGHWAYS "The little red school house" is passing from the American scene. But in many instances, the condition condi-tion of country roads has prevented prevent-ed our substituting the modern consolidated school with its motor-ous motor-ous transportation. A survey of 71 counties, made by the American Road Builders' Association recently, showed that 39 per cent of the rural schools are situated on mud" roads. Educators agree that the consolidated con-solidated school is far superior to the one-room, one-teacher country school, but district schools cannot be fnerged without adequate roads that are passable .the year round, tn 1940 there were 113,600 one-room one-room schools in the United States. In 1944 there were 96,302, but not all df the reduction can be attributed attri-buted to consolidation, for school building lagged during the war years. In 1944 it was estimated that there were between 5,000 and 10,000 consolidations that should be made, but a study of 5,800 schools found 4,000 were on mud roads. Today 4,400,000 children from rural areas go to , class in 40,000 consolidated schools. They require from 80,000 to 90,000 buses which travel an average of 25 miles daily in one-way operation. opera-tion. It is interesting to note that the average transportation cost of $24.50 per pupil per year is actually act-ually less than the same pupil would spend in street car or bus fare in the average city. |