CYCLE STANDS IN CITY
Traffic Inspector’s Views “Although for the time being the part of the roadway within the inner part of the city allotted for motor parking is not used as hitherto, the council would be well advised before granting any additional bicycle stands to give the matter some consideration, especially in regard to one-chain streets, stated the city traffic Inspector, Mr E. Stopford, in a report on the question of providing bicycle stands in the city, presented at the meeting of the City Council last night. Mr Stopford added that if additional stands were allotted in Esk street in accordance with two recent applications for that area, the new stands would not only make it difficult for motor vehicles to make parallel contact with the kerb, but the cycles themselves would be in a dangerous position, that was providing the stands were of the wooden or iron type which allowed the bicycles to project into the roadway sft 6in to 6ft. Mr Stopford then went on to deal with various types of bicycle stands and suggested that the most suitable, especially for one-chain streets, was the iron pipe rail type without separate spaces for bicycles, but against which bicycles could be leaned. Mr Stopford recommended that the stand in front of the old Courthouse in Tay street, which was never used, should be removed, and of two stands in Dee street immediately north of the Majestic Theatre he recommended that one should be removed and the other shifted to the Brown Owl corner. These recommendations were approved, and in addition it was decided that the stand in Esk street outside the shop of Hailenstein Brothers should be doubled m length and that the stand in Esk street at the Brown Owl should be extended to, but not across, the entrance to Newburgh s buildings. -x- * A request from H- S- Young, Ltd., tor cycle stand on the north side of Esk street, midway between Dee and Kelvin streets, was refused.
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Southland Times, Issue 24880, 21 October 1942, Page 3
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332CYCLE STANDS IN CITY Southland Times, Issue 24880, 21 October 1942, Page 3
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