MOTORISTS V. CYCLISTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14393, 7 January 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

MOTORISTS V. CYCLISTS.

AN ENGLISH DISCUSSION* A rather, curious discussion' is taking, ,placa In the cycling Press in j the o**l Country as to whether • motorists -_a.ro «lriv»nnT the wheelmen off the joads,.;or if briber cyclists, especially the reckless class, are deterring the or even careful, motorist from jdrivmg as much as he would lit© to. f Both: 'sjd.es ; have .supporters, but. -we S balk of opinion seems to be that, ilic cycle has suffered most. Several mnyi if ac t ure rs. -who • haye w contributed. . letters," state that motor cars and'hiof tor cycles have undoubtedly frightened . a large number of lady cyclists, and y also a fair number of the opposite' sex who are nervous, and who have- rebttr quished the wheel as a. consequeju-'e,; but adds that cyclists are more uum^r- - ous ever, as is borne out by the number of machin'es built and disposed of. The reason, perhaps the chief one, Whv 2 ladies refuse to. ride is that they •do * not like being smothered by the the cars raise. ■. V It is not so long ago, however, thaip. I read a rather bitter tirade from the *pen-«f -a motorist against the cyclists' 011 the highways. He declared that they spoilt the pleasure of driving,' by' either coming quickly from the side roads and streets, or cutting across the tracks unexpectedly, and that- on occasions they were so numerous aud_so disinclined to separate and make room fthe cars that driving lost more, 'than hatf of its pleasure. He further added that the risks Fome of them, took were simply appalling. Other writers hold that, if the cyclists r?ve relinquished the xoads, it is only those main thoroughfares most used by .the cars.andthntthey have betaken themselves to the byways nr>d lanes, s'o nil merotis in England. Motor'sts s»ion 1 icraeinber that the cvclists paved the WHY for fhe car-triffic; had it n"t teed' for the experience jomeJf fronj - iwrvwhceler, antoriobil'Sts Bave had a much" harder fight, jn jestablt<!lrinft themselves, and, periia-nt-. not hpve succeeded a f ibis fate "date. —"Fortis" in "The AusHaJisiaa."