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Show Month Passes Without City Action . On Appointment of Traffic Engineer, act as traffic engineer and devote bis full time to the work, although retaining the office of firs chief. Later. C U. WOulley. assistant iJty-engineer, iJty-engineer, was delegated to assist Mr. Jasper in ths tatter's engineering engineer-ing work here. After Mr. Jasper got his work started, he and Mayor Wallace agreed that Chief Knight ehould function as a traffle manager and coordinator. Instead of an engineer, leaving the engineering work up to Mr. Woolley after Mr. Jasper's return re-turn to Chicago. That Is ths set-up now In force. However, Mr. Woolley still has his duties as assistant city engineer and his work with the city soning commtaslen. Ths latter alone takes much of his tints. Mr. Jasper suggested that Mr. Woolley would be a good man for ths poet of full-time traffic engineer, engi-neer, but emphasised such an ap- Mors than a month has passed sines Rufus O. Jssper, traffic engineer en-gineer TST tin National Safety council, told the On city that It needs y-na a full-tuns traffic of g sngineer to carry , on its safety pro- Seriei gram. Ths city still is without such an official, although ths nsed bad been rseognissd sven before Mr. Jasper mads his report to the Bak Lake traffle commission. In bis report April 1L summarising summaris-ing a survey he made hsrs in January. Janu-ary. Mr, J a per said: "It Is recommended that ths responsibility re-sponsibility for planning of traffic restrictions, control equipment and safeguards be placed upon a city traffic engineer. "Salt Lake City Is sufficiently large to require such an sngineer on a full-time basis. This should be dons immediately. In order that the )h of planning which has been started and carried on through this survey will be kept constantly up-to-date." Mr. Jasper said that It would be feasibls t sslsct as traffle snginser a man from some municipal department, depart-ment, but that hs should be a trained engineer and relieved of all other city duties. He suggested that ths maa selected se-lected be given a course In traffic engineering at some recognized school, pointing out that Yale university uni-versity has an excellent short course in traffic engineering. As far as ths records go. Salt Lake City baa a full-time traffic sngineer, but In fact it has none. In January, the city commission, upon motion of Mayor John M. Wallace, passed an order designating designat-ing Fire Chief Waker 8. Knight to pointment should relieve him of other duties. Hs said a civil snginser sngi-nser probably is beet suited for traffic traf-fic engineering. Mr. Woolley is a civil engineer. Bo far, no action has been taken on this recommendation by Mr. Jaspsr. - |