Show Highway leader urges public to observe signs That was the question the State Department of Highways asked motorists today on behalf of its maintenance Faced with a tremendous highway repair job an the result of one of the most severe Utah winters in the Highway Department to motorists to observe warning signs and on the state's primary are active on thousands of miles of the state's primary and Interstate systems and their only protection from speed motor traffic is in our warning signs where and observance by motorists of those signs and and all the rules of safe driving in those areas where work is under stated C. Taylor Director of the heavy storms of Burton were happy to see our snowplows on the had instances where motorists shook the hands of snowplow crewmen who had broken the way for And we had dozens of letters from motorists commending efforts of crewmen of these same men will be on our highways patching and repairing damage caused by the past According to past experiences that many motorists become impatient and don't observe warning signs placed along highways undergoing operations are not as spectacular nor are the results as apparent as snowplow Burton they are even more important in giving all motorists during all the year a safe driving surface and in protecting the in vestment in the highways Among the devices used by the State Highway Department in alerting motorists and protecting workers will be signs reading Way and speed On some jobs there will be shoulder barricades at each and on other jobs there will be with signs which read on one side and on the other to control traffic past the On the Interstate Systems or other multi-lane there will be warning signs and of Most State Highway maintenance equipment will be equipped with flashing red you see Burton is slow-moving o r stationary maintenance equipment being used on the In a few mowing operations will Machines will all be equipped with poles carrying red warning flags above the mower to enable motorists to locate the mower readily and from a mowing operation involves very slow-moving Burton there will be times when the mowers must turn out onto the pavement to avoid drainage structures or some other and often the mowers must move across the highway to the other side of the Those motorists not impressed with humanitarian arguments against killing workmen or themselves through failure to observe signs and safety rules should remember that main- 1 men have training and injury or death by a skills which represent a con-motorist's failure to exercise investment of public represents a big loss Burton and to the state and to |