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Show S. H. Residents Welcome Simpson Ave. Extension glitter on each side for drainage. It is the plan to fence the right of way with a chainlink fence f-n both sides, to separate it from the railroad on the north and to protect visitors at Fairmont park on the south side. The road is being cut through just south of the Jrailroad track, and jotns Highland Drive just north of the Deseret Industries store. The present Simpson Avenue, which intersects inter-sects Highland Drive just south of Deseret Industries, will be extended in a curve on the west to join the new road, Mr. Christensen said. Special ribbon-cutting ceremonies cere-monies will officially open the new road some time in July, and then the motoring public will have a valuable connecting link between 9th East and Highland Drive. At present there is no such link anywhere between. 21st and 27th South. A perseverence campaign that has extended nearly twelve years has paid off for the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. During the past week or so the work of opening up an extension ex-tension of Simpson Avenue from Highland Drive through to Ninth East has been under way and the route will be opened for traffic by about July 1st, according to Holger M. Larson, executive-secretary of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. The opening up of this thor-oughfore, thor-oughfore, a project urged by the area businessmen periodically period-ically since 1946, will result in a 42 foot avenue, which is wide enough to carry two lanes of traffic in each direction. It will help considerably to relieve the traffic on 21st So. and Highland Drive, he said, and will put to valuable use land that has heretofore been of little value to anyone. Joe L. Christensen, Salt Lake -lty streets commissioner, said some of the grading was done last fall so the fill could settle. Then the project resumed last week on a Jiill scale with-shaping with-shaping the grade and hauling the gravel base. The work will be completed with a blacktop surface and shallow rolled h t v - 1 - ' I - - - Li 1 s , rum;-- "' K V ; ; t READY SOON This high angle view of the new Simpson Ave. extension shows the west half of the road and its junction with Ninth East. |