Show H TRAFFIC IN REVIEW 5 v l n 1 Safety JL Program fe w l Shows Little Gain BOB HALE IMore More than a year and a half has passed since Salt SaIt Lake City had its first traffic safety survey and the same problems still exist st t with little advance record recorded d in the attack upon them This his was indicated in a checkup checkup check- check up EP Friday The Telegram in a serl series Of pf stories is attempting to review review the traffic safety program program pro pro- gram gr gram n Since since the survey and show what l at has been accomplished what has not been done The The survey made by the National National Na Na- honal Safety council in January 1939 was the first concerted at att attempt attempt at- at t tempt to get to the bottom of S Salt lt Lake City's traffic safety troubles and resulted in a long list of recommendations most of which apparently were pigeon pigeon- I h holed led Some ome were regarded as impractical impractical impractical im im- im- im practical in view of local circum circum- st stances But others hit right at heat heart of the city's difficulties and despite this fact have been permitted p to await action although possibly p not completely forgotten I 1 Outlines Problems ufus G. G Jasper traffic engie engineer engi engi- neer e eer r for the council selected two problems as the major ones confronting con con- conI I fronting the city Nighttime accidents and pedestrian trian tr an accidents The The problems still remain para para- mount Of the 19 persons killed to date daten n city traffic accidents this year pi 1 were pedestrians and 10 of diem them m were injured fatally after ark irk Mr Jasper proposed a definite I regressive program of safety fighting as a remedy for the nighttime accident problem and also to aid in pedestrian tion n. n The results speak for themselves themselves themselves them them- selves There has been no such program program The city did make an effort to install safety lighting on the newly newly newly new new- ly widened East Twenty-first Twenty South street and prepared to pay its share but the United States bureau of public roads rejected the idea On Second West street highway highway highway high way of death the Utah Power and Light company has installed demonstration safety lighting in several short s stretches r Mayor Ab Jenkins has ordered a survey to determine cost of extending this lighting permanently next year r Tells Night Dangers 1 Mr Jasper noted that in 1938 47 per cent of all traffic accidents in Salt Lake City occurred at night despite the fa fact t. t that only 25 per cent of traffic movement occurred after dark Salt Lake City should adopt a progressive policy of improvement improvement improvement improve improve- ment of its its' street lighting he recommended improving first those zones where the ratio pf night to day accidents is greatest and make the chan changes es as rapidly as possible Proper lighting should be considered a definite part of all new street improvements or extensions and should be installed d when these improvements ar are aft made That was the suggestion made in January 1939 Action has been nil even though motorists are paying an additional bill of annually by means of parking parking parking park park- ing meters Next More on traffic survey recommendation I |