21 DECEMBER 1934, Page 6

The opening of a special cycle track beside the new

Western Avenue at Greenford seems to have pleased everyone but the cyclists it was meant to benefit. They still seem to prefer peril on the road among the motors to safety anywhere else, on the ground that to forsake the road is to abandon their statutory right to it. But why want the road when something better is provided ? The feat, no doubt, is that the end of it may be the exclusion of cyclists from certain roads even where there is no special track available ; but it is very hard to believe that any Minister of Transport would' agree to that. Meanwhile, wherever conditions admit of a road for motorists and horse-vehicles, a track for cyclists and a pavement for pedestrians, the maximum of con- venience and safety seems to be attained.