THE CYCLING TRACK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13875, 12 April 1907, Page 7

THE CYCLING TRACK

COMPLAINT BY CYCLISTS,

Af lev many years oi patient enduranco jyciists aro beginning, and with very just caiisc, to complain bitterly of two things— first- the nbsoluic neglect of Uio Citj- Council to pay the_ least attention to the cyclinir (rack running out tci Musselburgh, aiuf iroennd, its onmpletc inattention to tli e overTiding' of tlio by-laws ill at. han gone ou for years past, the track hi\s been torn up for tue erection of telegraph pole?, excavating tlio Men done for drains, or something of Uio hind, water hap been led into houses, material 1 has been carted over tlio traek or pathway I (for -it is strictly speaking that), suul uolhirg has been attempted in tlie direction of veinsalting tlio track. It has. become quite a common matter for anyone to drive heaviiv [coded carts, and even janitors supporting b'<logs, over tho track without °o much n" putting down a half-inch board by way of protection, and (ho result has boon thai it has Income cut up in all directions. Anyone who has noticed tho onornraisly heavy logs lying in the railway yurd, all of which have Iwoii carted across (ho (rack nt (lie juncLion of Guiuborland irtrect and tho Anderson my road, will nt onco realise what the. result lin.B boon to tho track at that point. Honw havo been luiilt on the foroshore of tlio Anderson's Hay road, mid ih 0 material for their construction has bc«n taken over the track by carters without Hie least attempt at utol<<ctivo measures being made, and liouso refill hts been conveyed to the tip across the traclt witli rlio greatest iiidilTc.renco as to any daiiiagn that might result to tho thorough [are. lut shortly, tor tlio last, eight touts "or =o persons have dono exactly ao they lilted with tho track, and have been allowed to do sn unchecked. The complaint of the bicycliststhousands of whom use the track—is quite 1 justified, for it was largely their njoncy that paid for tlie formation and asphalting many years ago, but, apart from tlio cyclist, tho general public has a grievance in tiie. niatier ; for it aJso uses this pathway, especially tlie younger portion, on a summer's evening. It a thousand pities that one of tho many zealous corporation officials did not notice what was going on years ago, and did not take steps to nrcvcnt what is nothing less than p careless destruction of public property. : now tint attention has been called to tlio i aiatti"- it is to.be hoped an immediate stop ' Put To people using the track just as ' «icy Mi ink tit, in defiance of by-laws and everything else.