Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-02-10 | Page 16 | Road Signs Should be More Uniform

ROAD SIGNS SHOULD I IBE ft BE MO MORE UNIfORM The time 1 I is not far tar dJ distant when hon there here W will ill I be a 3 gret re t d deal JI more transcontinental trans trans- continental travel and by by- that time R a great reat deal of of- Rood od sign Isn boarding will ill have ia c bc ben n accomplished At present there arc are more than fifty fifty- seven even varieties of sUm boards boards- through h the WeI- WeI west all aU are good In their way war but It would bo be better to have uniform sign signs II so ip that hat a tourist from New York Tork or California Califor- Califor nia Ia would recognize these signs and come cometo to o know them theta intelligently With IUt one oue standard system of ot road signs from Crom rom ono end of or the count country to tho other It t would not be long until every vory man who toured would x l understand their meaning Today It is doubtful if It many know what bat a a- sign indicates hen when he lie sees It ft Signs of or a n. peculiar size elze arid and shape placed at Intervals over o a a. single stretch ot of f r road ad are of ot course cours easily recognized c cb b y the thA r residents of or that section but doea does doe a tourist from another r state understand tand th hm m 1 Once explained It Is but cas easy but not infrequently nU the tourist starts over the therond road oad without Instructed Road signs should be uniform unICorn and the time Ime to make mako them is is' rl right ht now before berol he the country Is 15 marked with with-a a arlet arl vail et ety ty of or signs Igns that the tourist does docs not un un- del ci stand tand