Show New street signs placed where none were before Two men in the Vernal City Public Works Department who remember how howIt howit It was when they first came to town are involved in a program placing street signs at intersections The new signs green with white letter letter- lettering lettering ing are being placed in new subdivisions and where there arent aren't any old signs When we first started the project we surveyed everything in town to deter deter- determine determine mine the cost of replacing all the signs but that was too expensive said Carl Jensen Public Works Department We then decided to only place them on streets that dont don't have signs Both Jensen and Public Works Director Director tor Kay Overson said that one of the things they remember when they first came to Vernal several years ago was the lack of street treet signs f The city has assigned one man to In- In Install install stall the th signs and on this years year's budget they may be enough money for street signs on every corner five blocks from the center of town Jensen said According to Overson cost of the pro pro- project project is a year Its hard to keep the new signs up on Main Street and Vernal Avenue Jensen said because of traffic accidents tak- tak taking taking ing them out and vandalism Ti is year the city has ordered 50 more signs at a cost of without the posts The green backgrounds are hoo onto the aluminum signs with the letters and street numbers Both Jensen and Overson feel the new signs are an n Improvement over the old style of sign |