Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-08
AUTO DRIVERS ARE CARELESS AND BIG
 MENACE ID LIFE
On Route Between Douglas and Bisbee Many Reckless Drivers Threaten Safety O. Travellers; Many Protests.

That traffic conditions along the
 state highway between Bisbee and Douglas have become such that the
 safety of those using that thorough fare is seriously menaced, is a state
 ment that is almost daily heard froL. those making the trip and accounts of
 narrow escapes experienced are ire quently .recounted in connection with
 such complaints. It is not the con dition of the road that is complained
 of, but the conduct of drivers who
 traverse it.
 The commercial organizations cf
 Bisbee and Douglas can do no greater i service to the people of the two com munities than to take up the matter Of traffic regulation on the Douglas Bisbee road with the Corporation
 Commission" said Chairman J. N
 Sparks, of the board of supervisors to Secretary Joe Gray, of the Commef. cial Club, in Tombstone Monday. He referred to the action of the Corpora tion Commission in regulating stage | traffic between Globe and Phoenix over the Roosevelt road and comment. ed on the greater traffic over the Bis
 bee-Douglas highway and the conse- i quent greater need of speed regula. tion of stage lines plying between the two Cochise cities.
 There are now number of stage lines running between Bisbee and Douglas, each line making several trips a day. They desire to make the
 best time possible and the result is
 speeding. l do not say that this is done by all lines nor can specify the particular ones that are guilty, but I do know that these stage lines have
 brought large increase in travel
 over the road and that in many in. stances too little attention to safety and too much speed is noticeable. The
 matter of the time of the run can Dc regulated by the Corporation Commits
 sion here, just as between Globe and
 Phoenix. hope to see both commer- cial organizations take up this matter. There are three classes of drivers
 who make travel over the Bisbee i Douglas road dangerous" MT. Sparks ! continued. There are those who have been drinking, those who think 1 they have learned to drive but are not yet experienced drivers and who 1 take chances, and Some of the drivers | of for hire vehicles, especially those ! who do not own the cars they are driving. The regulation of the latter would be long step in the direction of safety"
 ! A well known business man of the district, long a car owner and an ex- cellent driver. recently said. "I use the Bisbee-Douglas road only when l have to and never at night l no longer think of taking any members cI my family over that road. It is dan ] gerous and especially so at night when the lights of a speeding and an coming car practically blind one" Another local business man said: | When l drive over that road at night and see car approaching l pull over l to the side and let the on-coming car pass, standing until it is by, and even then l do not feel safe"
 At the last meeting of the Auto Club directors, last week, this matter was discussed and the need Of a con- stant patrol by county officers was i considered The matter will later be more fully considered by that organi- zation.
 | Gray had intended taking up the matter of signing the dangerous curve on the Herefort road where the road, after running straight, suddenly curves and crosses the railroad track, and where there have recently been l several serious accidents. He learned however, from the county engineer, that the sign had been ordered from a Bisbee painter and would be ir- , stalled as soon as it could be obtained and it was therefore unnecessary to take the matter up with the board of supervisors.
 ] The matter of safety for autOists and for the public in general in this