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Show CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT is lined up at the east end of the Main Street construction project in front of the Vernal City office. A piece of the old irrigation culvert that runs under the THREE DEEP in some places as cars lined up for the "going home for dinner parade" on Vernal Ver-nal Avenue Thursday of last week at noon. Many street on the south side is shown in the left foreground. This ditch will be dig up and replaced replac-ed with new pipe as part of the highway reconstruction project. :nm - - 1 SPEED E q LIMIT -t... tP<- i-f la ZL Af5f Vernal traffic congestion baffles local townsfolk "Mother May I" and "Take a Dare", seems to be the most popular games played on the Vernal streets this past week. To play the games require a person to take his life in his own hands and try to get across the new detours U44 and US Highway 40, either by auto or as a pedestrian. As of Thursday of last week there had been five accident investigated by the Vernal City Police, some including injuries and an untold amount of damage. Persons who have lived in Vernal all -their lives seem to drive by habit, not by signs, as they come to complete stops on designated thru streets (where stop signs were recognized before construction con-struction began), and also whiz right through the newly designated stops, without hesitation. While standing on the corner of 1st North and Vernal Ave. Thursday of last week at noon, this reporter observed, four near-auto accidents in the span of about three minutes. Noon rush unaccustomed to the thru street on 1st North came to stops while many unaware of the stop on Vernal Avenue whizzed right through. vehicles, which were lined up for a block moved at snails pace trying to cross the new detour U44, until someone would tire of waiting and dart across the busy roadway. One motorist who braved the crossing and won commented, "Wonder if I could get back to work any faster if I drove the back streets to Jensen and came back to the other side of town on US 40. That way I wouldn't have to try crossing detour U44." Prior to the traffic re-route, vehicles were directed at the most crucial points on Main Street by traffic semaphores. Nevertheless, there have been three persons killed on Main Street, (one within the past three months), and approximately eight pedestrians struck by vehicles and injured. All this within a traffic light controlled two block area. It is hoped the lack of traffic control lights will not be cause for some family to mourn the loss of a loved one, due to an accident on our detour highways. 4 T fc'p -r I r r r r Er ' I l-iaWni " v o Tn A LONG LINE of vehicles can be seen reaching almost to the Main Street on Vernal Avenue (north) as they wait to cross detour U44 at noon pay Bsw- , i i ; m i, f I- VV ' ''.f 'VB" VpJI . A "in traffic i -.- .-reft - MAIN STREET TRAFFIC has come to a hault as heavy equipment has begun to tear up the surface sur-face of the highway in order to replace it with a HEAVY EQUIPMENT has been working on the task of removing the builtup surface on Main Street. According to the contract it will take 75 new one Nearly two feet or material win be hauled away and replaced with new road base. working days from June 11 to finish this jobo! reconstructing 12 city blocks through downtown Vernal. |