Arizona republican., 1916-01-17
A Fair Weather Street Car Service

If the Arizona corporation commission desires to avoid the fate of becoming as serious joke as the Phoenix street railway system it will devise some sort of order, regulating the service of the latter which it has the backbone enforce. Yesterday morning it happened (and what happened then is likely happen whenever rain softens the earth which holds the rails in place) spread the Brill line First street Service was sus- pended and people in the large and populous district in the northeastern part of the given their choice between remaining at home blowing through the mud and rain for mile or two
 From Pierce and First street northeast the track is in fairly good condition though there is assur- ance that the cars will stick to it in bad weather with the hther end of the track out of commission there might well no Brill line at all when it is badly needed.
 The neglect of the First street track might be supposed to be due to the pending negotiations or rather petitions which are being prepared to be placed before the corporation commission asking that an order be made to permit the company to run the Brill cars over the loop. But the track has been in the same condition for months; in fact years Even when the Indian and Glendale were running over it, long before loop thought of the long rotted ties were unable to support the rails when abuttn earth way in wet weather and cars crawling over them were often ditched. Whether the commits sion will grant the order is uncertain: but in any event, and in the meantime hundreds of patrons of the line should be put great inconvenience whenever it happens to rain and moisen the right of way.
 We have ill-feeling against the street railway company or it's manager. On the contrary we have high regard for the latter but the company and the corporation commission something to the citl- of Phoenix and the city Phoenix itself the, owe to the latter decent railway service such as other towns of like importance have The present service is the most tagging institution Phoenix has often been called a drawback to the town Strangers, almost all. say they know of no other town the size of Phoenix the country such an inadequate street railway service
 We have understood that the company claims that the revenues do such expenditures for betterments as necessary give a modern service If that is true is not the company itself fault? We think it has failed 0 develop the best and most remuneratve part of field. It has not taught the people of the most populous districts of the city not to walk. We suppose there SD live within mile of the district of Phoenix
 We believe that the great bulk say ninety per cent, of the traffic of the company picked up and discharged outside radius of half mile of Center and Washington streets, for within that radius will habtually avail himself of the accommodation offered by uncertain. called half hour service. And walking, and riding cars are to a great extent matters of habit
 In towns where decent service has taught the people to ride people think four or five blocks is a long walk Phoenix it is short and very natural jaunt.