Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-04-19 | Page 13 | City Traffic Survey Made

CITY TRAFFIC SURVEY MADE Ogden Is Below AVerage Average In Men Assigned to Street Control J i SLAIN MAIV FACTS F Or OP OGDEN'S SL TRAFFIC lc POLICE v J 1 SURVEY SUIt Seven thousand persons to very every traffic officer Twelve per cent ot of city po- po police police po police lice assigned to traffic duty duly Three traffic officers Three motorcycle officers two two Thirty officers on ponce police force orce Twenty five per cent of fore force available a tor for emergency traffic duty Two hundred miles ot of streets In city Four our hundred ir For every of ot population Ogden has one police officer as- as assigned as assigned signed for tor traffic duty a survey completed Saturday by Chief of Police Curtis L Allison and Sec Sec- Secretary Secretary rotary S P I Kimball shows Of ot the tho 32 members of ot the Ogden police force torce six arc are traffic officers while of those these six three are arc mo- mo motorcycle mo motorcycle officers One fourth ot of the officers on the force are avail avail- available available available able for tor traffic duty in emergencies emergencies cies dies IN IX SIMILAR CITIES f The Tho average for tor other cities cities In ino 1 0 e the th United States having between r and population Is persons to every traffic oUt officer while on an average 18 per percent percent percent cent of ot all police forces are assigned to traffic duty Figures supplied by the national automobile chamber of ot commerce show that there are persons and 1470 motor vehicles to every traffic officer In the United States taking cities titles of or all sizes and classes Into consideration For the entire country 12 per percent percent police forces are as- as assigned as assigned cent of ot the tho signed to strictly traffic dut duty OX ON HONOR ROLL nOLI Ogden Is on the Safety Honor i iRoll automobile Roll of ot the national chamber of commerce having had motor fatalities during the first no two months n of ot 1926 1925 Salt for Lake ts honors also on t the a honor roll for those two months Figures furnished by the city engineers engineer's office show that there are jue miles of streets together Intersections m In wIth street Rhode bl- bl bland Island city Cranston and with population a 1 of ot other city In the same la Is the only a class clus that has more miles of ot streets t than Ogden the automobile cham- cham cham- cham cham a has Cranston show o ber hers her's tables table c 50 miles of ot streets ts