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Show Ii - -- i acaoenu. 1 ; TANGIBLE SAFETY ACHIEVEMENTS OF YEAR IN S. L. 1 accidents and maks thorough studies as guide for future enforcement en-forcement and engineering needs. 9. Recognizing the pedestrian problem and acting on It by means of education and, more specifically, by Instituting Improved controls, such as better maintained pedes-trlsn pedes-trlsn Isnes and painted warnings at entrances to lanes and crosswalks. cross-walks. 1. Undertsking a new program pro-gram of removing trees and shrubs found to be traffic hazards. This progressed under direction of the city shsde tree department. 1L Increased activity in making mak-ing traffic counts. One police officer of-ficer hss been assigned to specialize special-ize in this typs of investigation, Listed step by step, here are tangible tan-gible accomplishments of 1939 In Salt Lake City's traffic safety program: pro-gram: 1. Creation of the city traffic commission, set up by ordinance as a regular adjunct of city government gov-ernment and devoting exclusive attention at-tention to traffic matters. t. Enlargement of the police department and its traffic division, with resultant upturn in ths traffic traf-fic enforcement Index. I. Traffic engineering survey by Rufus G. Jssper of National Safety council, first of Its kind ever msde in Salt Lake City, 4. Installation of parking meters, me-ters, with revenue to be used In traffic safety work. . Creation of a traffic engineering engi-neering department oa a -part- time basis, In chsrge of C G. Woolley, assistant city engineer, working closely with traffic police and other agencies of city. . Adoption of a safety lighting proram to be carried on as rapidly rap-idly as financially possible. At request re-quest of traffic commission, city commissioners approved funds for the first major project. Improved lighting of the newly widened East Twenty-first South street. 7. Enlsrgement of the general traffic program by creation of engineering, en-gineering, enforcement, education and other subcommittees of the traffic commission. s. Intensive accident Investigation Investiga-tion work by traffic police. Investigation Inves-tigation squad was maintained at six men, in three shifts of two each, to Investigate . all reported t . i m m m m w valuable In planning traffic controls. con-trols. IS. Institution of an enlarged accident mapping system by the police depsrtmeht. Monthly msps ara used to "spot" the entire accident ac-cident picture. It. Placing of signs and signals at hitherto unprotected, hazardous intersections, good examples being on Seventh South and Eighth South streets at West. Temple street, regarded as among ths serious se-rious sccident intersections. 14. . Carrying out several Important Im-portant recommendations of th Jasper survey report, among them stepping up painting work, placing controls at certain railroad crossings cross-ings and revamping th bus stop and pedestrisn Isns systems In front of South high school, e , '-' 1 II. Marking of pedestrian lanes on East South Temple street at several crossings hitherto unprotected unpro-tected in heavy traffic. - 16. Long-needed center striping of East Second South street to straighten ou traffic streams which had "wandered" oa th wrong side. 17. A new plan for guiding traffic traf-fic at hazardous Intersections. A button, with a double tin running back from It Is psinted to Instruct motorists not to cut corners and stsggered pedestrisn lanes also are painted. Much of the engineering work has been carried on with ths aid of the stat road commission, such ss placing of new signs and signals snd paint work on streets thst are part of th stat road system. |