BICYCLES NOT ALLOWED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 10

BICYCLES NOT ALLOWED

-—! ♦ , , fr:.: EFFECT OF HQSm£C| BOARD’S DECISION NO FURTHER CONCERN WITS PROBLEM " M \ What was a private nuisance to the North Canterbury Hospital Board appears likely to become something of a public nuisance. Bicycles left at the Public Pqnpital on visiting afternoons, which ' have been excluded from the hospital courtyard by the board, veto stacked for about 50 yard? alms the wall of the hospital build, ing yesterday afternoon, extendnqf in some places four feet and across the footpath. The Hospital Board argues tha| the indiscriminate parking o£ faj. cycles in the courtyard obstructs tbn passage of the ambulances, though it was stated yesterday by the see* retary, Mr W. S. Wharton, that ena or two doctors still park their can in the courtyard for a few at a time. Mr Wharton said that the occasional cars did not cno* stitute an obstruction as they wen. always carefully parked, whereas inconsiderate cyclists would start! their bicycles to a depth of 10 or,IS feet. There is a regular par Hag place for doctors’ cars in the ItM pital grounds a little further aloftf Riccarton road. ' : 'j According to Mr Wharton tfea board, having excluded the cycfi« from its property, is not concerned with any further attempts at dfem* ing of them. It had suggested it# the Domains Board that a slaw should be built across the lsid' against the fence enclosing Souß| Hagley Park, but the Board has decided that •|h^||gp: : . i -: advisable because of .> persons crossing to the there is so much traffic., MrJKiir*., ton said that the board mind in the least the bicycles beiag stacked along the footpath so | as - the obstruction in the j removed. ,i ’it ! A large calico sign hangs tawer the arch leading into the yard, po»* hibiting cyclists from entering. Ifen* terday, towards the end of the w ing hour, numbers of people finding it easier to step off the footpath' to make their way to Qxfbri terrace, as bicycles narrowed ths way. It appeared that wiflwl some accommodation for the la- i cycles-a good stretch of footpath had been improvised into a cyde stand, with people extricating their laachines while the foot passengas waited. The hospital yard was , certainly clear, apart from two ot three perambulators and a j which, it would seerrvhad not cag» under the board’s ban.'