Show Lighting Up for Safety SALT LAKE CITY can be Justly proud of its I- I new street lighting syster on S Second cond West Ninth South and South State streets It is a areal areal areal real asset assel to the city and should prove a major factor in reducing our traffic accident toll S Driving down these main arterials after the lights were turned on Wednesday night it was amazing to note how different it was driving along the lighted streets and along those blocks which are still dark On the one other cars and pedestrians could be easily seen while on the other it was almost impossible to see anything anything any any- thing on the road until you were almost on top of it This Second West and South State street lighting is the sort of traffic safety Improvement improvement Improve improve- ment the people of Salt Lake City hoped for when they began paying their pennies and nickels into parking meters It is the first visible visible ble evidence we have had that we are getting something for lor our m meter ter money The lighting of these main thoroughfares from rom north to south through the city is excellent excellent excellent excel excel- lent but lets let's not stop there There are many more miles mlles of heavily traveled arteries in Salt Lake City which are dark and dangerous This S lighting program should be carried on by the city on a long range basis so that just as rapidly rapid rapid- ly as funds lunds are arc available we will iU be adding new miles mlles of safety safety lighted streets to this Second See Sec ond West South State system |