U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
400 Seventh St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20590
Refer to: HOTO-1
November 6, 2000
Mr. Gary Thompson
State Traffic Engineer
Minnesota Department of Transportation
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St. Paul, MN 55155-1899
Dear Mr. Thompson:
Thank you for your letter of September 14 to the Office of Transportation Operations (HOTO-1). In your letter you transmitted a request from the city of Little Falls, Minnesota for approval to experiment with Mobil Supplemental Crosswalk Identification Devices.
As you are aware, Requests for Experimentation must be in accordance with Section 1A-6 of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Your letter indicated that the city of Little Falls Request to Experiment is in accordance with Paragraph 1A-6 of the Minnesota MUTCD. We assume that it replicates the National MUTCD and have evaluated the request accordingly. We have reviewed the city of Little Falls Request to Experiment dated September 8. We will approve their request subject to the following comments. The information may be faxed to Mr. Harold Lunenfeld at 202-366-3225.
For reference purposes, we have assigned your request the following official experimentation number and title: "II-429 (E) Mobil Supplemental Crosswalk Identification Device." Please refer to this number in future correspondence.
If you have any question while preparing your revised request to experiment, please call Mr. Harold Lunenfeld at 202-366-6598.
Sincerely yours,
Shelley J. Row, P.E.
Director, Office of Transportation Operations