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Show What About The Speeders? When it comes to "passing the buck," we have to admit our local officers can pass one hundred per cent any day of the week. Citizens are beard to complain of the speed menace dally. Not only recently, but for a long time past has the lack of traffic regulation on the streets of Bingham been a menace to the lives of pedestrians. Motorists generally drive too fast for our narrow, winding Main street. A few perhaps, a half dozen, doz-en, each day are what might be termed as outlaw drivers. On an average av-erage of this" number shoof flirbugh our Main street at SO miles or more with little or no regard for the safety of themselves or others. Their speed is limited only by the power of their motors. We believe the speed limit on open op-en road main highways should be raised to 40 or 45 miles, but in narrow nar-row streets in towns and elites the speed limit Is all too high now. From inquiries which we have repeatedly re-peatedly made the city officers tell us it Is up to the state and county traffic officers to regulate the traffic traf-fic and from the county officers we are hold it Is the duty of the city to regulate traffic in the city streets. Another excuse given is that some drive so fast they can not overtake them even If they wanted to do so. And there you are! Probably the last excuse is a good one. You wouJd need a pretty sharp eye to even get the number of some cars during the time Uiey are in sight of anyone standing on the sidewalk. We don't know what causes this state of affairs unless some one Is expecting leniency to keep them in or that they know they are going out of office soon or yet that they have just secured office. Anyway conditions are Just the same. . Outside of a little complaining lierhaps nothing will be done about it except some moot r 1st ploughs through a group of school children or catties some other tragic mishap mis-hap to arouse public sentiment against present conditions. |