Show r Y o f I rG j fir 1 Y i t 1 I r t t f f t 3 if 1 1 J Y S 'S i r.- r. Salt L le Pl Safety Lighting Tests 1 BOARD ACCEPTS UI u. Pi P. L L. L 1 OFFERS AS EXPERIMENT City Seeks Methods Of Financing Permanent Pro Program ram il j By BOB HALE The city commission Thursday accepted offers of the Utah Power and Light company to install experimental experimental experimental ex ex- safety lighting on Second See Sec ond West and East Twenty-first Twenty South streets as a forerunner to to- possible permanent installations Hopes for or both the proposed Twenty-first Twenty South and Second cond West streets lighting projects W were re rf dashed earlier in the week w when en the U. U S. S bureau of public roads rejected the former It had been hoped that if it permission were obtained obtained obtained ob ob- for the Twenty-first Twenty South street work vork similar work could be bedone bedone bedone done on Second West street with the city and federal government sharing cost Rejection of the proposal by the federal bureau leaves the projects' projects entirely up to the city to finance if they are to be undertaken since the state road commission has adopted a policy of not using state funds for lighting on state highways highways highways high high- ways inside municipalities Offer Follows Conference The offer for experimental in- in in 5 was made by C C. A. A Wolfrom Salt Lake division manager manager man man- ager of the power company and resulted from a conference of city officials with company officers Wednesday afternoon Mayor Ab Jenkins indicated the city would attempt to seek means of financing permanent safety ty lighting on the street but conceded conceded conceded con con- ceded that no funds are Immediately Immediately immediately immedi Immedi- In hi sight i r Mr Wolfrom proposed that five or six Incandescent lights be installed Installed Installed In- In stalled on East Twenty-first Twenty South street somewhere along the newly- newly widened stretch between S State t tat a t e estreet estreet street and McClelland avenue and that one group of five or six In Incandescent incandescent incandescent in- in candescent lights and another anotn r group of as many sodium vapor lamps be Installed on Second West street Will Select Locations Locations are to be determined by company officials and Fire Chief Walter S. S Knight with consent consent con consent con con- sent of City Engineer W. W D Beers Mayor Jenkins indicated the Second See Sec ond and West s street t r e e t installations should be at accident locations suggesting between Second North and Fourth North streets In 1939 and so far In 1940 fatalities have occurred at various points on Second See Sec ond and West and Beck streets be between between between be- be tween the 2000 block on North Beck street and the Intersection of Second South and Second West str streets ets No discussion over financing of permanent Installations developed l' l lat at the commission meeting However a citizens' citizens committee that proposed the Second West and t Beck street installation has promised promised prom prom- not to drop the fight even though federal aid has been refused refused refused re re- l' l fused and has indicated it It may request use of parking meter revenue revenue revenue reve reve- nue for the project Hasn't Increased Budget Parking meters are expected to to produce in revenue this this' year but the sum sum has been lumped into the public safety budget 1 which was cut down proportionately proportIonately proportionately proportion- proportion before this money was added so that actually the meter money j has not increased the budget over over- Its 1939 figure it After meters are paid for ex expected expected ex- ex 4 by the end of 1940 the city will get all meter funds estimated at annually Now half the receipts go to the manufacturer manufacturer in payment Cost of a combined incandescent- incandescent r sodium vapor lighting project on on i t Second West and Beck streets between between between be be- tween Ninth South street and the t Davis county line has been estl- estl mated at The East ty-first ty South street project has J been estimated at ap approximately s f |