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You Can’t Fool The
Traffic Checkers
Don’t think you're fooling the State Highway Department if you drive back and forth across the little black tubes that count traffic on the State’s highways. The road people hare a number of tricks to tell whether the count is true or false.
This practice is negligible on primary highways, engineers say. However, on the rural secondary roads the custom of "running up” traffic counts is general throughout the State.
The practice may even backfire and result in a lowering of the count. The machines click off time intervals and any abnormal counts during a period are thrown out by traffic engineers.
These are some of the check methods:
Previous counts for each station and each period are used for comparison.
Check stations at other points show what average traffic goes in or out on a road.
Primary highway counts measure all directions of traffic and tell whether the local road traffic was merely running up and down a section or went onto the through highway.
Counts at particular times -of the day when traffic is at its normal low or high show whether there has been out of the ordinary traffic at other times. Traffic flow usually follows a normal pattern on all roads, with unusual . upward spurtf occuring only for special occasions—or by1 ‘'made" traffic.
If the count is above normal for much of the time, a personal check and count are made.
Local highway and traffic engineers know exactly what points— residencies, schools, churches, factories, etc,, each section of secon
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