Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-06-10 | Page 9 | Traffic Engineering Seen as City's next Attack on Street Hazards

Traffic Engineering Seen As City's Next Attack on Street Hazards ment alone is a big enough )ob snd engineering should be a function of its own." Fire Chief Walter . Knight, upon whose ahouktere aa eity traffic manager fell tbe Job of getting the current traffic program under way and coordinating its progrsss, likewise Indorsed the plan for engineering.. en-gineering.. -It' hi the only thing to do and it must be done," he said. By BOB HALE ' Traffic engineering, a modern-day development, probably win become Salt Lake City's newest attack upon ths city's No, 1 municipal problem aafety on streets and highways. . Proposals by Rufus O. Jasper, traffic engineer for the National Safety council, for a full-time traffic traf-fic engineering bureau In Salt Lake City, brought immediate Indorsement Indorse-ment Saturday by officials concerned con-cerned with the problem. The recommendations, with numerous nu-merous others, were contained in a final report by Mr. Jasper on his ' traffic' survey b ere'lit ' January. " ' The report will be eubmitted to the city traffic commission at Its next regular meeting. June 20, although al-though it ia possible the group may convene earlier in special session to receive the M-page report B. C J. Wheatiaks, chairman of the engineering committee of the traffic commission, said bs wss "very much" in favor of ths plan. "It cannot be done thia year because be-cause of lack of funds," hs explained, ex-plained, pointing out the recommendation recommen-dation was for a regular budget to support a traffic engineering bureau. Such a budget is not provided pro-vided this year. "We will have to come to such a set-up," Mr. Wheatlake said. "It is ths constructive way to do things. Many things now being done by other groups are strlcuy engineering engineer-ing duties and should be centered in an engineering bureau. "Planning of traffic controls snd regulations ia an engineering matter mat-ter and seslng that they are carried car-ried out la an enforcement duty, apart from engineering. Enforce-