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Show 3 cum xrvA Mo,xr in- --yrf 'v - a--v AW" -,.n Ljvi yAAft V f 1 38 . X n- I I . Cleveland H)homui Oumiy I z V";VrVN V!. Huntinuton (B.L.M. lf - if , I Mi'-r' Jk VJi . nA ! 0 ,w..d..-. T 'v . I I i L . v aasiJJGreen River ' l.r NATIONAL J , tVf ) This stretch of Interstate Highway 70 will be made considerably safer I for the motoring public by late summer with the installation by the Utah Department of Transportation of an emergency call-box system, providing telephone communications for motorists in trouble every five miles between Green River and Salina. Emergency Communications System for 1-70 Federal Highway officials last week approved the construction con-struction of an emergency call box system by the Utah Department of Transportation Transporta-tion on one of the loneliest stretches of interstate highway high-way in the United States. Steven H. Proctor, communications com-munications manager for the IDOT, stated that contracts will soon be signed for installation instal-lation of an emergency call-box call-box system on Interstate 70 between Green River and Salina over the isolated San Rafael area. "We are hoping to be ready to bid the project by the end of April and have the installation completed by the end of August mid September," Sept-ember," he stated. The project will provide two-way voice communication by telephone on a 24 hour basis from the disabled motorist motor-ist to the radio communications communica-tions operator in the State Office Ruilding. The project area is infrequently infre-quently patrolled and motorist motor-ist services are considerable distances apart. The project is in an uninhabited area between be-tween the Green River Interchange Inter-change and the Salina Interchange. Inter-change. The system will be radio signal (microwave) that will be self-contained on a breakaway break-away pole. Forty units will be installed in one contract. Ad- ditional units will be installed if there is shown to be a need. The telephone units will be located at five-mile intervals and will be mounted 15 to 20 feet from the edge of the traveled way (for each direction direc-tion of travel). Communities located adjacent adja-cent to the subject project have been contacted in regard to services to the traveling motorist, and their comments are incorporated in the plans for the project. Other portions of the study involve the possible addition of equipment equip-ment so that citizen band radio transmissions could be used on the system. Estimated cost of the project proj-ect is $215,000. and funds for the project were approved by the Utah Department of Transportation Tran-sportation Commission last fall. If the 1-70 project proves to be successful in terms of service to the motoring public, pub-lic, a similar system will be installed on 1-80 between the towns of Grantsville and Wendover, across the Great Salt Lake Desert another very lonely stretch of interstate inter-state highway. |