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Show j Utah's 1940 Traffic Higher Than Last Year 3 Traffic trends on Utah highways high-ways are up in 1940 over previous years at all automatic recording stations according to the September Septem-ber report of the Planning Surrey Sur-rey Department of the State Road Commission, which has just been submitted. While September traffic was Uighter than the August volume ..of traffic, the Draper Cross Roads 1 recorder shows an increase for I : September 1940 of 13.68 per cent 1 ,r tv, same Deriod last year. 1 Tor the entire year of 1940 to date, I the increase over 1939 is 6.54 per , -cent. In Parley's Canyon the 1940 increase over last year was 4.35 per cent while the Richfield record-1 record-1 er shows a 1940 increase of 6.48 I .per cent. -3 A break-down of the September 'traffic shows the average daily traffic on Highway 91. flC Brigham, was 4,314 vehicles while 95 average Sunday traffic : was 5 049 vehicles. On Lobar Day the Iraffic increased about 20 per M cent to 6, 067 vehicles. The average daily vehicles on US 91 at the Draper Cross Roads for September was 4,677 vehicles and the Sunday average was 6Jl( -1 vehicles. The T.abor Day total was 1.188 vehicles. In Barley's Canyon the daily average was 2,623, the Sunday average 4,119, and the Labor La-bor Day total 5,206 vehicles. On , TO 89, north of Richfield, the daily 1 average traffic count was a and the Sunday average was l.Oba t and the Labor Day total was 1,49 "vehicles. t The Draper Cross Roads section v. on US 91 carries the heaviest trai- fie of any place where automatic of recorders are installed. Mfe: in. zation of the highway at toe point of the mountain, at tne entrance to Provo, and at the cannery, south of Spanish Fork, will aid traffic movement ana 'do away with much of the congestion con-gestion now apparent at the places where the improvements are to be made. The modernization will also be a safety factor as the . roads are being widened and bad "2 'Curves eliminated. |
