ACCOMMODATION FOR BICYCLES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22443, 2 July 1938, Page 15

ACCOMMODATION FOR BICYCLES

USE OF SITE IN CASHEL STREET

PROTEST BY TENANTS OF -

NEARBY BUILDINGS

The controversy about the use of the site at the corner of High and Cashel streets on which public conveniences stood until recently has not yet ended. After protracted negotiations the City Council decided last year to demolish the conveniences. The council is now considering making a garden plot of the site, with provision for the parking of bicycles; but the proposal to accommodate bicycles on the site is being opposed by tenants of nearby properties. About 25 occupiers and owners of properties near the site are asking the council to receive a deputation protesting about the proposal to accommodate bicycles on the site. According to the organiser of the petition (Mr F. Hickinbottom) the proposal is to construct a cycle rack along one side of the plot. This rack, said Mr Hickinbottom yesterday, would be along that side of the plot facing the narrow lane running from Cashel street into High street, and the parking of bicycles there would seriously impede traffic wishing to stop outside the buildings facing that lane. The conveniences had been removed after representations from the owners and tenants of the buildings nearby, and £SOO had been collected to assist the council with the cost of demolition and reconstruction elsewhere. Now the tenants of the buildings were threatened with something else that would tend to divert traffic from their businesses, and accordingly a request had been made to the council to receive a deputation at its next meeting to protest against the proposal.