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Show Iicangs In Sisgcar House Cii'cumvential routing of traffic from the Sugar House crossroads and more restricted parking were advocated this week by S. S. T.vylt.r, Call Lake traffic engineer and conslutant, who just C'(.;r.pk-;c(! a survey of the area. Taylor made the survey and analysis at the request. of the Sugar House c!, amber of commerce public affairs committee and made his report to that group Tuesday. Taylor's recommendations will be covered singly and as a package by the committee next Tuesday, and its findings will be passed to the directorate of the chamber. Taylor, meanwhile, will submit his conclusions to the Salt Lake traffic safety council. Specifically, the engineer urged that parallel arteries to 1th East and 21st South MUST be opened up to siphon off peak loads of traffic from those Sugar House crossroads. He suggested peak-hour parking restrictions on 1th and 17th South streets and the proposed cut-through cut-through of Simpson avenue to help handle east-west traffic removing it from 21st South; and he proposed pro-posed that 5th, 7th and 9th East streets be restricted to parking similarly to 13th East, to accommodate accom-modate north-south movements. The east-west streets wold have no parking on the north side from 7 to 9:30 a.m.; the south side of the streets would be cleared of parked cars from 4 to 6 p. m. Similarly, the north-south streets would be taboo to parking from 7 to 9:30 a. m. on the east side, and cleared from parkers between 4 and 6 p. m. on the west side. Eleventh East, too, would have NO PARKING from 7 to 9:30 a. m. on the east side, and a like taboo on the west side from 4 to 6 p. m. Also parallel parking would be instituted on the south side of 21st South from Granite Furniture to 11th East, cutting out eight parking spots. As a matter of fact, Taylor said he could recommend that all parking park-ing be banned on both 21st South and Eleventh East and on Highland High-land Drive all during business hours or that 36 minute parking park-ing meters be installed on the 150-plus parking spaces in Sugar House proper. Extention of 13th East, crossing cross-ing Highland Drive to the south is an absolute must, Taylor reported. re-ported. Such a project is already under survey by Salt Lake city and county. The cut-through at Simpson avenue av-enue is necessary to permit traf fic to circulate off Highland Drive, he ponted out. Such a project already al-ready is in the hopper, probably will be pushed through this year. Parking meters, Taylor reported, report-ed, with 36 minutes for three cents, would enforce a heavy parking turnover on the Sugar House streets, probably being a distinct advantage to merchants inasmuch of the 150-car street parking space is abused and over used now by motorists, many of them non-Continued non-Continued on Page 2 trian cross-walk be eliminated on 11th East in front of Keith O'Brien's, and likewise elimination of the pedestrian crossing west of the Plaza. He told of the need of a traffic semaphore at McClelland avenue and 21st South and a heavily and brightly marked four-way pedestrian pedes-trian lane from Granite Furniture to Western Stores, and from Walker Bank to Penney's. Elimination of the walkway from South East Furniture to the US Post Office in favor of the synchronized semaphore at the Pedestrian cross-walk from Seagull Drug to Pehrson's corner were proposed. S. Morgan Sorensen, public service serv-ice committee chairman, declared the committee would study the survey piece-meal and as a package pack-age before acting on it and submitting sub-mitting it to the chamber board next Tuesday. TRAFFIC-PARK SURVEY ASKS Continued irom Page I . shoppers. Taylor's suggestion on meters, he said he knew to be unpopular, but he said it would control parking more efficiently and force circulation of traffic; he also pointed out 36 minutes of street parking to be adequate for a quick-time shopper to get his buying done by leaving his car on the street. He added that private parking lots accommodating longer time shoppers would still be in operation. opera-tion. Taylor hastened to decline the title of being a "traffic revenoo-er"' by advocating installation of parking park-ing meters, stating simply that the present system is inefficient and is not condusive to regular and frequent parking turn-over. The engineer also suggested far-side far-side bus terminal loading, thus eliminating pedestrian dashes, through heavy traffic to the present pres-ent bus stop zones. He further suggested one pedes- |