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Show Utah Foundation reports increase In vehicles in county and state and 1968 classified by type of 33,324, 1968, 48,962; motorcy cles, 1958, 206, 1968, 1 229 ex empt vehicles, i958, 480, i968, 1,227 trailers, 1958, 1,450, 1968, 31. 1968, 40; trucks, under 6 000 Pounds 1958, 5,273, 1968, 11 787 trucks, 6,001 to 18 000 Pounds, 1958, 2,255, 1968, 3,831 958 'fi'00' 10 33' PU"i 1958, 656, 1968, 677; trucks over a ooo pounds, i958, 336 986 ill' l8ceItaneous, 1958, 1968' -811- The al for 1958 was 44,997; for 1968, 73 - Hie streets and highways Utah seem to you to be i 'tns more conEested each , ' ' you are absolutely right, fording to a study by the . h foundation, the private 1 E rch organization, the num-! num-! trf mtor vehicles registered y tah County increased by ! La between 1958 and 1968. f Jcport indicates that there JL 73 258 motor vehicles rcg-1 rcg-1 ,rreci in Utah County in 1968 Spared with 44.997 ten years I woughout the state of . the number of motor ve-rjj ve-rjj r0se from 401,478 in 1958 098 in 1968, an increase t i (66 620, or 66.4 during the id ..year period. A jje Foundation report mdi-t, mdi-t, les that much of the growth it motor vehicle registrations it ' occurred along the Wain Wa-in L Front. More than 80 of ! total gain in the number j vehicle registrations between k as and 1968 occurred in Box sder, Weber, Davis, Salt Lake ,! j Utah Counties. ! jaVjs County recorded the II .-est percentage gain (137) : Lg the ten-year period, n ..ms in other Wasatch Front I Jes were Weber, 74; Salt or e W; Box Elder, 66 ol. j Utah, 63. 'foundation analysts point , jhat throughout the state itorcycles experienced the ,atest percentage growth a iring tne Past ten years, I inking from 2,019 in 1958 to . jjji in 1968, more than a 5 jfold increase. Other large jus were made in the num-B num-B of trailer registratioons 0) and in light truck (jer 6.000 pounds) registrars registra-rs (113). Over the past ten years ere also has been a very sig-,cant sig-,cant rise (195) in the ,ber of exempt registra- iS jjj. These are primarily ve-jiles ve-jiles used by the state and 1 1 local governmental units. Following is a summary of s vehicle registrations recor-y recor-y for Utah County in 1958 |