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Show Traffic Board to Ask Better Street Lighting Proposal Follows Up Jasper's Recommendations for More Adequate Illumination The city traffic commission, at special meeting Friday In the office of Mayor John M. Wallace, voted to recommend to tha city commission installation of improved lighting on South State and Second West streets, Ths movs is in line with a major recommendation of Rufus G. Jasper, National Safety council traffic engineer, engi-neer, who made a survey here In January. He suggested thst a city-wide city-wide lighting program be undertaken under-taken and that State street especially espe-cially should havs improved lighting. light-ing. The new system would run north on State etreet from Twenty-first South to Ninth South streets, wsst on Ninth South street to Second West street and north to Eighth North street Casts Estimated Uss of either sodium vapor or Incandescent In-candescent lighting was recommended recom-mended by the traffic commission. Cost of ths former wss estimated at $M5 a year and the latter $6sl a year. No action was taksn on a proposal to establish a "B" area for parking meters, in which two hours' parking time would be sold for a nickel. The area would Include outskirts of the , business district Mayor John M. Wallace, who urged such action at a meeting lsst Tuesday, reported thst no steps should be taken for at least 30 days. Merchants in the area are of divided opinions regarding "bargain rates," he aaid. Lack ef time prevented a scheduled sched-uled discussion of a proposed 23-mile 23-mile an hour speed limit for train In ths city, exclusive of an area between be-tween Ninth South and Eighth North streets in which a 13-mile aa hour limit now prevails. Weald Extend Area Neither did ths commission got around to discussing a proposal by Chief of Police William C Webb to extend the present one-hour parking sons outside the metered arsaa. The commission voted also to recommend rec-ommend to the city commission that B street be mads a through street retaining the present- 23-mile aa hour speed limit It recommended that a vehicle bridge Just north of ths Denver a Rio Grande W astern railroad crossing at Twentieth East street be widened to accommodate two cars. It voted also to recommend placing plac-ing of "Slow IS miles per hour" signs at Third avenue and Canyon, road and painting of yellow stripes to keep traffic to ths right e -.3' |