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Show I LIGHTED ROAD ! TO SALT LAKE ffifl City and County Officials HH and State Board May H Put Over Proposal a brilliantly Hghted highway Unk.- ng Ogden and Salt Lako. Thin has H long heen the hope of the stato road H commission, commissioners of counties H Which the highway runs through and H thousands of motorists who arc often H compelled to make the 37 nuie trip at H But now Umt hope has ripened Into H i Mm desire :" H ready on foot to mhkc the dream H reality. The matter Is no before the B county ommtssioners. the sta.e road H commission an I other:- wlv ma; aid H I In Its Installation. A. B. Bush, Btato H idge engineer i "lie of the B movers In the plan and lost week he H placed the scheme in-for. the Weber H county commissioner. It received no H absolute promise, but he at leasl WfOli fl the assurance that We her count) will ilo it." shrtre when the time -omcs probv B ably in the early summer, t I'irn the H present dark highway into a blase of H Illumination that will not only he a 1 source of delight to the I'tah motorists B hut will create an Impresslm "n tnc 3 tourist which win ie remembered long H! after he has run his car hack Into his H garage at home. M Win BACK ID1 H The scheme also has an ardent hoost- H . r In Mayor Frank Kranclf. Seeing the H possibility of advertising from the B i tourist standpoint and also to link the i two largest Utah cities even closer to-gather, to-gather, bfayor FYancii is urging the H) highway lighting as s proposition that Hi will pay and give He H has given his assurance that he will . do all In his power to bring the plan H to a B Although the plan" Is really a tenia-' fli live one at present. It has proceeded Hj farther than most people have know- H lodge. Already there are tests being made upon the types of lamps that Hj might he used The.se lights, entirel H j new and said to have almost complete- B J ly revolutionized highway lighting in H I tho eastern states, are now installed H j near the Riverdah -dug hero they H aro undergoing tests that are to he ap- H J plied before any of lights are H The new Htrhttn : units arc called the H N'ovalux highway units and tests are H ! also being made on them for Instal- H latlon on the new proposed Ellverdalc H j viaduct whic h will span the Weber. H ; river and the railroad H erdalo next fall' If the tests are satis - H j factory. It Is planned thnt they he con- H 1 tlnued from the viaduct to what is' H known as near Roy, H the scene of danger until proper light H ing or other precautionary' measures H are How often, as you drove through the H night, your headlights have revealed H tho wicked turn only lit time for you' H to give the Wheel 0 twist! Fre- H quentlv another car was behind the H curve and flashed its glare Into your H eyes just as you were steering a close H course by the edge. You held your: 1 breath until the road straightened out. H Perhaps vou wondered whether youj H would be so lucky at the next bend. i H Under the new lighting arrange-1 H ments the highway stands rut in the: 1 surrounding darkness. Daylight could H tell you no nn.ro. From far away you see the beginning of the eurVe ; and are prepared. rou begin to! H change direction, the road unwinds' H before your eyes like n w hite rlhbon I H Every car and anv Object i. clearly B GUARD .M OCCIDENT fAMfl It is not alone the driving of the BSBJ motorist that is made easy. He also' BMH has the comfort and assurance that. fSMfJ he will not suite.- from the mistake of other motorists. He knows the other fellow can see the edge of the road and can see him. JAMB On a road thus lighted vou can see inequalities and small objects thnt H might cause punctures and can avoid ' I ft j J i ; : : xiow me ugcii.-tjuit Lalce Lnhway will appear at night 11 the present plans oi the commissioners of various counties and the state road commissioner materialize. The proposed plan is to turn the present dark highway into a hlaze of light for the entire 37-mile stretch A new lighting system is now being tested at the Riverdale crossing of the railroad tracks for both the proposed Riverdale viaduct and the highway to Salt Lake. The n?v lighting units are new in the west and their installation at the River dale crossing n the first time they have been used west of the Mississippi river thc-ni If any adjustment or roadside repair it. demanded, you can have ade-qu ade-qu it' light directly overhead and can do the work as quickly as in the daylight. day-light. Light helps to make highway travel easier at night. The largest possible i M yf a good road by the largest number num-ber of people requires that the actual; handling of tho car or truck shall he made as easy as possible as much of, the 24 hours as possible, Light on roadhed.s at nl?ht helps the driver to decide when to cut down or Increao; his speed so t,hat time and trouble cutii be saved, 'helps to Keep traffic on tlv- roadbed Itself, relieves eye-strain. I assists in making repairs and discourages dis-courages holdups. It Increases night tr.iifn and thereby relieves day trif-tli trif-tli . It decreases running time and therein Increases road capacit Ml N M i: OF ONI i.K. li i TRUCK In making travel easier at night light makes travel safer at night- Every driver Knows the menace of blinding headlights on the approaching car.) knows that danger and even death lurk in the blackness behind the ghir-l Ing headlight. Every driver knows the menace of the "one-light" car or truck, knows that the main bulk of the car or truck lies Invisible to the right or left of the one light, knows that wreck and ruin may follow a bad guess. Every driver knows that scores of dangerous eure. culverts, bridges and treacherous crossings are not al-, ways marked by signs thit can he seen OUtSlde the beam of light thrown hv his headlights. General Illumination of the roadbed will m ike It easier to gr,t .safelv past the approaching cars; it will lessen1 the menace of the "one-eyed" car; It will make constantly visible the edges of the rondhed Itself for a considerable consider-able distance ahead of a driver It will make more visible the general direction di-rection and turns ahead. SAFER TRAVELING Easier traveling and faf.r traveling makes faster traveling. Each year marks a heavy Increase In tle voluiris of the traffic on the Salt Lake-riKden highway, not only of cars but especially es-pecially of freight trucking. There has reen and will be a steady Increase of motor express lines operating on day and night schedules. Speed for all of j this traffic can not be obtained nor maintained safely without adequate and correct general Illumination. The automotive headlight Is only a half-way mans and often a dangerous one at that. |