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Show Spot improvement safety program includes roads in local areas The Federal Government and Utah are cooperating in a $1.9 million "spot improvement" saff.ty program aimed at eliminating elimi-nating high-accident locations from the State's highway system. sys-tem. Federal Highway Administa-tor Administa-tor Lowell K. Bridwell says "the spot improvement program pro-gram represents an immediate opportunity with fast pay off in the job of reducing the mounting toll of traffic deaths and injuries." Since March 1964 when President Pres-ident Johnson directed the Bureau Bur-eau of Public Roads to use Federal-aid resources to help the states expand this type of work, Utah has programmed 31 such projects at a total cost of $1,983,373, shared both by the state and the Federal Government. Gov-ernment. By 1970, the Utah program is expected to total 202 projects pro-jects on Federal-aid highways at a cost of $2,683,000. The spot improvement program pro-gram in Utah and the other states involves such improvements improve-ments as widening bridges, traffic lanes and shoulders; realigning curves and slopes for better sight distances; reconstruction re-construction and channelization channeliza-tion of intersections; installing uniform control devices; installation instal-lation of guardrails, and railroad rail-road grade crossing elimination or protection. Some of the improvements listed in some of the following-counties following-counties are as follows: Utah County State Route 77 from Interstate 84 west to urban limit of Springville; clearing of roadside hazards; $23,000. State Route 77 from U.S. 91 east to the urban limits of Springville; clearing of roadside road-side hazards, $27,800. Sanpete County State Route 116, near west edge of Mt. Pleasant at railroad crossing; cros-sing; installation of automatic flashing light signals, $3,750. U. S. 89, north of Mount Pleasant at railroad crossing; installation of automatic flashing flash-ing light signals, $3,750. Juab County U.S. 6 at Jericho junction northeasterly toward Silver City; horizontal and vertical realignment, $410,-520. $410,-520. nir I imi i ii 1 1 in m" |
