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Show Traffic Pedestrian Lane Safety Control Plan Under Way Salt Lake Traffic Commission Will Study New Program Tuesday to Be Submitted by Subcommittee on Engineering ! Br BOB BALE i A plan for nighttime traffic control at downtown midblock pedestrian lanes will be ready for consideration by the Salt Lake traffic commission at Its meeting Tuesday. C C. Woolley, member of the commission and of a subcommittee subcom-mittee on engineering, said Saturday that the committee plans to have a recommendation prepared for submission at the meeting. Traffic Must Be Deathless 51 Days More to Set Record Mr. and Mrs. Motorist, why not take a little tow rtsht now that "I am going to drive carefully?" care-fully?" Not just today, or tomorrow, but from now on. That Is the -"Oiily-way 4liae' twfflo deejsls-eaev bo prevented. The last IS days have pawed without a traffic death la Halt Lake City. But the dancer still lurks. The city eaa make ISSt a banner year In Its traffic safety battle by keeping the next 1 days also free of motor vehicle deaths. ee consecutive days without traffic death. It wlU have set a new, modern record. It can bo dona. ' What the plan will be was not decided finally, but several pro- posals have been under consideration, including reflectorizing of stop signs now used in the lanes In daytime, overhead signals, floodlighted flood-lighted lanes and safety islands in midstreet. The recommendation Is to be prepared as a result of an Inspection In-spection of lanes by the committee late Friday. ' Nighttime control at the lanes to provide consistent, 24-hour- daily enforcement of pedestrian right-of-way long has been sought. |