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Show u Traffic Lanes Painted On Highway Through the efforts of the city officials of American Fork, during the past week the state highway commission has had painted at intervals in-tervals marking the most dangerous places for crossing the main highway, high-way, yellow strips marking pedestrian pedes-trian lanes. The first on the east end is at the point where pedestrians cross the highway near the Owl Inn and the last on the west end is near the Grant Hotel. An educational campaign will be presented to the school children in which they will be instructed and requested to use these lanes for crossing the highway to and from school, and it is also expected that junior traffic policemen will be stn-tloned stn-tloned at the crossings nearest the schools to direct traffic in the mornings and nt noons-i noons-i The city police fore will exert rul I extra effort to cut down speeding enrs through the main thoroughfare thorough-fare of the city. There has boon , considerable complaint that persons . traveling through pay little heed to 5 the rights of pedestrians and step 1 on the gas as though this were an - open stretch of highway. Especially ., is this true of some of the large . trucks. |