Our rights to the use of the reads would have been thought to be well established Ly this time, but every now and again obstreperous driver fancies that he can treat cyclists asinterlopers, and refuse them the night of. way. Ifthe cycli+t in such a case is n public-spirited fellow he will bring the matter before the magistrates. Such a appeared the thor day to protest against the action of al cal carrier in South Lincolnshire who refused to give him room to pass. The fact being proved, the magistrates held the carrier to be in fault, and, fined him for obstruction. oe The case is interesting, "s there is a growing tendency in some quarters to treat cycling traffic as if it were permitted on sufferance only, "ud was without the same legal rights "n} privileges us other wheeled trafic. Particularly so is this the erse in the columns of hose papers which have lent themselves to an anti-cyclist' hey forget that a cycle is a carr the Highway Act, and has us much, min to consideration as any other cart, oarrinye, coach, omnibus, cab, or wagyon that rolls along the road. ae Some sensation has been caused by the rumour that the streets of the City of London were to be closed to the use of cyclists, but the rep rt is an exaggerated tone, as all that has been done at present is for the Court of the Common Council of the City to pass a resolution on the mutter which is certainly not pledged to any scheme for thw exclusion but merely the regulation of cycling trafic. This is reasonable enough, but the least at-. tempt t" abolish the privileges cyclists would meet with a-great popular outburst of resentment. The harmless proposal is that the police should confer with the aldermen to see what steps, if any, could be taken to regulate the passing of cyclists th-ough the city. The proposal was adopted without opposition, and the mover ws particularly anti-us not to be thought-in any way hostile to cyclists. The gentleman in question is Mr. A.
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