U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
400 Seventh St SW
Washington, DC 20590

Refer to: HOTO-1
March 23, 2000

Mr. Lance Sandy
City of DeKalb
Engineering Division
223 South Fourth Street
DeKalb, IL 60115

Dear Mr. Sandy:

We have received your letter of March 2 to Michael F. Trentacoste the former Director of the Office of Highway Safety, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

Before we can approve your request to experiment with in-roadway warning lights at crosswalks, we need you to provide detail of your proposed experiment per Section 1A.6 of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). We are enclosing Section 1A.6 and a list of items commonly left out of experimentation requests. We are also enclosing sample data collection forms. If you have any questions while preparing your revised request to experiment, please call Mrs. Louisa M. Ward at 202-366-4372.

The responsibilities for the MUTCD and the responsibilities for monitoring and approving experimentation of devices not in conformance with the Manual now lie with the new Office of Transportation Operations. Please submit your future reports, and any request or comment, to the FHWA, Office of Transportation Operations, HOTO-1, Room 3408, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590.

For future reference purposes, we have assigned the following official experimentation number and title to your request: "IV-180(Ex) -"In-Roadway Warning Lights At Crosswalks." Please refer to this number in future correspondence.

Sincerely yours,

Jeffrey A. Lindley
Acting Director, Office of Transportation Operations