DANGER TO BICYCLISTS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9596, 10 December 1896, Page 3

DANGER TO BICYCLISTS.

TO THE EDITOR, OF THE PRESS. Sir, —It is time some steps were taken to protect bicyclists against the malevolence of the drivers of other vehicles. The drivers of certain tradesmen's carts, and of, some cabs, seem to do their best to incommode and endanger bicyclists. This morning I was riding quietly into town, on thePapanui road, along the tram line, when a baker's cart behind mc and a little to my left, gave a sudden turn to the right, making sharp for a road at right angles. I perceived it over the back of my shoulder just in time to make a quick sharp turn in the opposite direction, and narrowly escaped being run down, but the sharpness of the turn on a road recently watered occasioned mc 4 very nasty spill. Almost everyone to whom I mention the circumstance tells mc of some similar experience of his own. The drivers who thus endanger bicyclists appear to think that horse-drawn vehicles are entitled to a monopoly of the roads, and they not only ,show no ordinary courtesy to bicyclists, but delight in inconveniencing them. It is high time this practice was stopped, and as the ventilation of the subject in your columns is the readiest means to attain that end, I venture to trespass a little on your space. —Yours, &c, Steady Goer.