Show i Guessing GJessing on Traffic Control 1 j WHAT W HAT should serve as a needed warning to Salt Lake officials in charge of traffic regulation was sounded by a which h has J just st made a sweeping survey for forthe th the i American En Engineering Council in which standard stand stand- r ard ird rd traffic control l is is' is urged for for American di citi cities s. s t- t Cities Cities' are are getting motorists into bad muddies muddles mud mud- dies by employing wrong practices says th the r report port adding that it Hit is is clearly obvious that s sortie cities are making two fundamental errors errors in inthe the method of installing street traffic signs signals signals' and markings C The first major error according to the report is the placing of traffic control devic devices devic s without adequate study of conditions which their use is intended to improve or of the evil effects produced at some intersections resu resulting ting from the attempt to correct undesirable undesirable unde- unde conditions at one particular intersection This calls to mind the unsuccessful and cOI confusing fusing experiments with various kinds of a and go signals U turns and many other trials that were made h here re without sufficient study sudy d 1 The second serious error pointed out by Jy the investigators is the employing of of traffic control devices at places and times not justified justi justi- fied fled by the conditions The motoring public will hope for much g god od to come from the study just made surely purely there is a need for American cities to apply scientific a and ld uniform systems of traffic control This committee committe headed by V. W. B. B Powell of Buffalo N. N Y made mad a s sur survey sUr- sUr r- r vey vey of eight thirty states and more th than n cities dues having haying a population of more than 33 o op o. o H It It adopted eighty three recommendations recommendations for attaining a a. a standard system Officials Off 1 daIs of Salt Lake and all American municipalities municipalities need to give serious consideration to all ail of the recommendations Less guesswork al and more serious planning is demanded for demanded for the ht increasing problems of traffic regulation |