Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
A Moss-eromn Order

We observe that the state corporation commits sion further suspended its eight-year- old order requiring the street railway company to double track it's Washington street line. There remain to the company two years within which comply with the order.
 This order is perhaps less vital to good service to the public than any of myriad orders which have been issued by the commission for the conduct the railway, the of city ordi- nances which have been enacted from time to time by tho city commission and all of which have either been disregarded complied with grudgingly when it was not much trouble for the street railway company to do
 With the number and character of cars in opera tion, the service would be in any way improved if there double track, for that matter, a tracks. What of greater importance is service of which the public may have surance; service that presents pretense of regu larity and reliability. It may an hourly service a half hour or twenty minute service. But it should not be a sometime" service One should know approximately when he get a at certain point. At present there is nothing for one to do but wait indefinitely.
 We have often wondered how much time is lost in Phoenix annually waiting street cars. The ag- gregae. think, would be appalling And there, too, is the discomfort but the demoralzing effect is the conversion of the people into population of those who stand and wait" yet do they serve.
 Waiting for street in Phoenix is regarded by some of our citizens an ayocation, by others a vocation and by still others who have followed it longer. as full fledged career which finally ends in failure.
 We interested in the double-tracking order only to the circumstances attending the extension of it. Perhaps it should never have been made. We rather think it should not have been. But having been made. it should now be either rescinded or enforced
 The first order was made in 1913. It opposed the ground that the property the point of being sold; that such order was calculated repel prospective purchasers. The same objection made to the order when it was reiterated years with the additional argument against it that the prices of material had gone out of reach. These objections urged again when application made for another fve-year extension. Again a sale was hanging fire. The request for another five-year leeway indicates that the sale was not imminent. The commission cut down the period of extension to two years, though think it might well have increased it to twenty thirty years, thus saving stationery the trouble of writing orders.
 Always objection is made by the company to restrictive admonitory orders and legislation intending purchasers will be scared off. In order that those souls may not be ntmidated would it not be better to divest the state and the city commission of their regulatory powers as to the Phoenix street railway?
 But may question whether it would be to the advantage of Phoenix to encourage the advent of street railway management which regulation. found necessary everywhere. distasteful and galling.
 Much more attractive, think to the intending. purchasers of the street railway, would be public sood will than freedom from regula- a- tioL> Moreover, those intending purchasers, if any must have been paprised by the terms of the application by the objections presented by the rail- way company against adverse orders. and by the public discussion, that by the leniency shown tc the present management they being lured
 into Phoenix and that, hooked and fastened they will be subjected to regulation. They mus know what is going in Phoenix.