nden Standard Examiner OGDEN, ‘UTAH, WEDNESPAY B—Section Hazardous Harrisville Crossing Is Closed To School Bus Traffic A hazardous railroad crossing closed, if a solution hadn’t been fast north of Harrisville brick reached. The school buses will have to. yards — entirely lacking in warning signals — was closed to all travel an additional 8 mile on school bus, traffic officially this. the new route. Several students ‘morning at a meeting of several living along the old road will have to walk a short distance for | organizations concerned. M Union Pacific. Railroad | Co., a school bus service on the new | the same meeting, promised to. route. _ Besides school buses, it was de‘eorrect another crossing, on the Plain City Road, which Weber cided at the meeting, the cross‘County commissioners previously ing will also be closed to all carriers of inflammable products. ;complained was also hazardous. e will re-route all bus traf-| _ The UP officials also promised | | fie on 750 West Street,” Supt. to grade a railroad track on the | |A. Parley Bates of Weber Coun- Plain City Road crossing in Har\ty School District, said at the risville, making it smoother. » Today’s announcement was al | meeting. . “hat. should solve the | biggest problem.” reversal of an earlier position| The crossing was declared a taken by Supt. Bates. Mr. Bates hazard by the Utah Public Serv- had contended that it would be} ice Commission recently after an difficult to re-route the buses over | investigation into the long-stand- the Plain City Road. | ing problem by the Wahlquist Mr. Bates had also objected to | Junior High PTA, headed by Mrs. the re-routing on grounds that| | Norman ‘Thompson. some of the children would have | The PTA picked up the pall to walk to bus loading points, un-} after worried residents in the less carriers backtracked. oy | North Ogden area complained of | As one solution to the prob-| the danger to children to ride lem, persistent PTA officiais had| over the tracks going to and com- recommended that the railroad ing from school by bus. In winter, install a flasher signal at the, the area is sometimes fogbound. crossing. This drew a quick proThe crossing closed to school test from UP officials who said ‘buses is on the UP main line, the cost for such protection would| about 700 feet north of where total about $9,000. — : Plain City Road crosses the same students, used it daily even though there were not epeataty Novae 30, 1955 Oey neta | | tracks in Harrisville. Five school buses, four of them loaded with EVENING, ANOTHER PLAN Still another proposal was made | by the County Commission. Members of that body said they would be willing to construct a road parallel to the tracks if the right ef way could be secured. This plan would have semniived school buses to use the safer warning devices. After declaring the crossing unsafe, the Public Service ’Commission urged the UP, Weber) County and the School. District. to negotiate to solve the prob- Flain City road crossing, traveling about the same distance sd es P| : > the PSC would have. ordered it now cover. lem. A. spokesman said, however, : 1