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Show -. Traffic Traffic Council Maps Guards at Crossing Lanes Safety Commission Okehs Immediate Study of 24-Hour Signal Systems for Mid-Block Mid-Block Protection By BOB HALE The city traffic commission Wednesday had tackled the problem prob-lem of consistent control at midblock pedestrian lanes by approving approv-ing plans for an immediate study of a proposed signal system. Julian M. Bamberger, commission member who has taken a load to obtain adequate protection for pedestrians using these lanes, told fellow members that actually the lanes must be regarded re-garded in the same manner as Intersections, since pedestrians and motor vehicles cross paths at them. "We must protect those lanes with some sort of control-safety control-safety islands or signals," he said. C. G. Woolley, commission member, asked for more time for study to determine a feasible control system and said he had asked M. V. Silver, city electrician, to determine whether a system of pedestrian lane signals could be used in synchronization with the regular semaphore system. Mayor John M. Wallace, commission chairman, pledged that a means would be found to protect the lanes. Chief of Police William C. Webb reported at the meeting that an asserted practice of sightseeing bus solicitors stepping Into VigilanceNeeded for61Days-If for61Days-If Traffic Record Is to Be Set A fight for life is the grat-drath has occurred in that pe- est fight of all. nod. That is the fight that is go- If the city can keep up the Ing on right now in Salt Lake battle, a new record of 69 con-City con-City a fight to preserve life socutive days without death on against the threat of traffic ac- Salt Lake City streets or high-cidents. high-cidents. ways will be attained on No- FdV the last eight days. It has vember 20. Sixty-one days are been successful. No traffic left. streets and "flagging" tourists, guiding them into parking places In order to sell them trips, has been hailed. The asserted practice was objected to on grounds the solicitors solici-tors have no business to direct traffic in their eagerness to obtain business. The commission voted to ask the city commission to Install a pedestrian lane across South Temple street from the east side of Third East street to the west side of B street. This plan was adopted in preference to Installation of a semaphore there, as requested by a group of women as a means of protecting pedestrians pedes-trians crossing near the Cathedral of the Madeleine. The group decided to ask the city commission to order speed limits as follows on Redwood road: From the 1000 block on South Redwood road to the north city limits, 30 miles an hour; south of I the. 1000 block to south city limits, 45 miles an hour. |