Show Rap S. S L. L or Chuckholes Pavement i Traffic Hazard Created by Condition Of City Streets Worst in inears Years ears 5 Unofficial Survey Discloses Driving an automobile in Salt Lake City has become a test nerves erves as well as driving ability because of of th the condition of I wracked wracked ter-wracked streets I INot Not only ways by-ways but heavily traveled streets have become so J md and pitted that driving Jans us s a constant effort at ging ing ng damage to a motorists motorist's prized os prized possess possessions ons his res res es Conditions have become so ag- ag that actual traffic haz- haz rd ds are caused These were findings resulting t from an unofficial g survey of city streets that in- in what the motorist is up t. Complaints plaints Mount ft Not 1 only observations but fast accumulating complaints of motorists mo mo- moo or themselves are evidence of Bhat h t many observers regard as condition of streets inears in years rears ears as a 8 result of the last win- win and ter-and tr and failure to make widespread reP irs I MIl Ill U D. D Jarvis manager of the ru State Automobile association I tl tion reported that his office ver before has received comI com com- I 1 such as we have this I I Motorists it was revealed have complained that on many many- streets I i It virtually impossible to avoid I frome chuckholes and about the I Ib b best st they can do is steer away I Ir rein r r the worst ones Sometimes 1 ey pointed out traffic makes it possible impossible to dodge and the only I holce is to bump the tires over I pitted itt d roadways Condition Widespread The e survey of only an hours hour's ng indicated how widespread condition In that time tome one 25 miles were covered on everal typical streets only ne twentieth of the city's some someo WO o miles of streets found that not only are area Sst a 8 bench residential streets in and actually dangerous but that such an anti it J road as West Vest Twenty-first Twenty South oth street an arterial to the thet tab t h ordnance plant is badly rut- rut the Redwood road 1700 iVest est street intersection p S South uth Redwood road near the thel lant l t is in fair condition having feea een i temporarily repaired but not notI Twenty first I South street hl h bears as much if not more morel llant lant l t traffic than does Redwood pad ad d. d O e of the worst conditions was und end on Second West street beun be- be un Seventeenth South and first ty South streets It is H i on in Seven Sevens I RAP t ROAD OAD ROAD CONDITION S Continued from Page One A AI almost unbroken stretch of ruts and holes I In the 1800 block the edge of I e surfacing has crumbled away awaya I 10 of ota a a length lenth of several feet with I of 10 It sudden drop nearly Inches to trap the motorist s l south The cut extends more moreeM T to g aid hla all a yard Into the roadway and eM ij ear car striking it at even a reason reason- I ble bie speed would at least go out f control and possibly overturn No warning has been placed no I ort fort made at repairs The east bench which usually eU ets more snow than the valley 11 I suffered by the winter nty East street at the of Foothill drive is a of chuckholes 6 fetch of fi fl fion On n Seventeenth East street be- be 9 Vf keen een Thirteenth South str street et and V sevelt avenue is an 1 Jl ted stretch of jumbled J lA q fl lAt at mars a street of new homes i si Sixteenth East street from HarriS Harris Harri Harri- S avenue to Seventeenth South s O n Street treet is in like condition aWAt At Twenty first East and Thir- Thir Anti sS South uth streets at at the north- north T corner comer is a deep hole from fromI vest rest T I i ich ch the end of an old irrigation I I pipe cine protrudes It is a trap and anda a tire tre hazard for a motorist driving N If IB Far e tv n and or down making down the the a right east slope turn is soother n ather typical piC rutted stretch stretch South street Between Eleventh Eleventh Elev Elev- East and Ninth East streets Probably the worst damage spot as found at Seventh avenue and The surfacing there broke up 12 weeks ago according near to by residents and a water jn ins niata broke under weight of a truck Damage Widespread The The pipe immediately was reI reI re- re I palled paired jed but wooden barricades at atthe atthe th the broken surfacing stood for 12 we weeks ks these residents said with with- I Kut any action being taken Repairs Repairs Re Re- pairs were begun only two days ag ago and so widespread was the surfacing damage that the paving j i h had bid d to be chopped away almost 1 the width of Seventh avenue 1 An unusual incident was reported report report- ed from the Veterans' Veterans hospital Thirteenth Tl avenue and E street where approximately feet of road circling the institution on onI b federal ral property is in bad condi- condi s I tion E E. A. A Littlefield hospital manag manager mans man man- ag agar ager r said bids were advertised to I r repair the section Only one bid Q he said was received and that was so 80 outlandishly high that we couldn't couldn afford to take it it |