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Show HIGHWAY MARKERS IE00 CITIES Nothing to Indicate When Motorist Is cn Right Roa J or 0,7 of It. (Prepared by tl--c United Slate? Drpartmenr of Agriculture.) "Why aren't the standard route markers' of the United Slates highway system more generally erected in cities through which the rout j pass?" a cross-continent motorist recently I asked the bureau of public roads of j the United Stntes Dopartment of Agriculture. Ag-riculture. "I started from the western coast last summer over one of the U. S. routes nnd had no trouble in following the road across thf country." he explained, "except when il crossed the larger cities. There we-e no markers mark-ers to indicate when I was on I he route or when 1 was olT it. It is through the cities that we motorists are must likely to get off tl.e route, especially at five-point Intersections," he asserted. Not Under State Control. Officials of the bureau explained that the route markers in the various states were erected by the stale highway high-way departments only upon the highways high-ways under their Jurisdiction: that city streets, which are connecting j links, are undei the jurisdiction of municipal authorities, nnd thai the erection of the markers within city limits is un to fl |