When does the Cleansing Committee of the Corporation intend to recognise the rights of the cyclist?
At present the condition of some of the principal thoroughfares is such as to suggest homicidal tendencies on the part of the authorities towards the cycling members of the community. Great holes are to be encountered in the very centre of the roadway, the avoidance of which often leads the unhappy wheelman into imminent danger of collision with the passing electric tram or "outside".
We have in our mind a spot where the traffic is thickest - the junction of what might be called upper and lower Grafton Street with Nassau Street - where several pitfalls of the kind we refer to, are to be met with.
The extreme drought of the past few weeks has fully revealed these "dangers of the streets" and it would almost lead one to agree with a facetious stranger who recently remarked that the only time when it was safe to cycle in Dublin was in muddy weather.
The Irish Times, May 24th, 1901