HIGHWAY NEEDS OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
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STOP SIGNS AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS
Lines of crawling traffic on hills are not unexpected when the badly broken pavement is so closely hemmed in by guardrails and there is neither passing sight distance nor room to pass, This part of US Route 40 in California is traveled daily by 4,000 vehicles. Passing sight distance is undesirably restricted on 7,324 miles of the interstate system.
The free flow of traffic on the system at present is interfered with at numerous points, especially in urban areas, by stop signs, stop- and-go lights, and flashing beacons. On rural sections of the system there are 132 stop signs requiring the halting of vehicles moving on the interstate highway. Besides these, on rural sections, there are 394 traffic lights of the stop-and-go variety and 302 cautionary flashing beacons. These stop signs and signals on rural sections of the system are encountered mainly in the more populous areas and in the vicinity
