HC Deb 17 February 1882 vol 266 cc978-9
MR. BUTT

asked the First Commissioner of Works, By what authority the public is prohibited from using the broad road round the inside of the Regent's Park for bicycles; whether there is any, and if any, what reason for the prohibition; and, whether it would not be practicable to re-open that road to the large number of young men of the working class who were formerly in the habit of using it for bicycle exercise?

MR. SHAW LEFEVRE

, in reply, said, that the bicycles were prohibited tinder the Regulations of 1872, by virtue of the Parks Regulations Act. After consideration, he was inclined to think that, with a view to the protection of the public, it was not desirable that bicycles should be used in the parks.