Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-01-05 | Page 13 | State Reroutes Traffic to Ogden Plants

STATE REROUTES TRAFFIC TO OGDEN PLANTS War Workers Asked To Drive North On River Dale Road To alleviate a critical traffic congestion of workers en route rout to the Ogden arsenal and the millimeter shell loading plant the state road commission Tuesday ordered that effective Wednesday war workers use the Riverdale road branching off from Death Curve on highway 91 instead d of the alternate U 38 highway to enter Ogden Death Curve is located north of Roy at the junction of U. U S. S 91 and U Jay A. A Smart state traffic engineer engineer engineer en en- for the road commission said it was necessary to route the northbound workers workers' who report for duty between 7 a. a m. m and 8 a. a m. m over the Riverdale branch instead of the alternate route which enters Ogden on Twenty- Twenty fourth h street Stop Sign Capped During the one-hour one period the super stop sign at the junction will be capped and the traffic willbe will willbe willbe be of through nature To protect school children at two Salt Lake City school areas the commission has created a new slow zone for pupils of the Madison Madison Madi Madison son school who are attending class- class work in the Burton L D S Sward ward chapel 67 East Twenty fourth South street This zone Mr Smart said will extend 1000 feet either side of the chapel and speed will be restricted to 20 miles an hour Portable stop signs will be placed in the center of the road during the time pupils are pupils are crossing Stationary slow signs also are located on the street Petition Denied I Following a study made on petition petition pe pe- pe- pe of numerous persons living on Twenty first South and first ty-first East streets the commission commis commis- slon sion denied a stop sign there Mr Smart said it was elected to extend the school zone 1000 feet on either side of Parleys Parley's L D S Sward Sward Sward ward chapel located at Twenty- Twenty first South and Twenty first East streets where pupils are attending classes He said it was found that motorists we were e driving at excessive excessive excessive sive speed and that the extension of the zones would slow up traffic