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ume does not average arouna <ov Vehicles por hoar, a stop-and-go light Is likely to delay rather tha« to speed the flow of traffic.
Why does a etop-and-go light; tend to increase the number of accidents? Engineers pointed to a number of reasons—-most of them based on the human factor. Too many motorists, they said, place a 100 per cent faith in the uroteetion afforded by a green light. AH too often, another driver nuns through a red light and; crashes into the ▼Chide which has the green signal. _
Many motorists are inctinad to “step on the gas” in an effort to make a green light before it changes. Moving at a high speed, sometimes they can’t stop the light turns red. And if they stop quickly, they are likely to be ,y struck from behind by a following motorist.
Lights, too, frequently increase the hazard to pedestrians, simply because the pedestrian often ignores a red light.
For these reasons, all reuests for traffic lights are carefully) screened before a light is installed. Studies are made to determine the number of vehicles qpd pedestrians entering an intersection, the vehicle turning movements *nd other technical factors.*
Often, such a survey indicates that a traffic light would do more harm than good, and its installation is denied. Not, engineer* emphasized, because they «re waiting ‘‘until someone is killed,” but because the light actually might increase the changes of a fatal accident—to say nothing of creating dxtra delay, and inconvenience for a whole lot of motorists.
; Wright Farm Sold
To Dr. W. D. Preston * The <30-acre Wright farm oh the Battle Run road, about three miles southeast of Washington, has been sold to Dr. William Donald Preston of the office of the Surgeon-General, U. S. Air Force, Washington, D. C. The farm is near “Rockbottom,” home of Capt, •nd Mrs. H. <3. Warwick.
Dr. Preston was in the county' recently with Lon Triplett of Arlington, making arrangements for changes to be made on the dwells
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