Tour de Yorkshire
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Routes reported/released today and I was surprised to learn that they are coming past my house.
I have no problem with people that want to do these type of things but I have not been told that our road would be closed.
Should I have been told it will be closed?
Anyone who had the same thing last year with the French race?
Routes reported/released today and I was surprised to learn that they are coming past my house.
I have no problem with people that want to do these type of things but I have not been told that our road would be closed.
Should I have been told it will be closed?
Anyone who had the same thing last year with the French race?
bobbo89 said:
Aye, it was only released on Wednesday. Its all been very hush hush until then so you wouldnt have received any forwarning from your local council.
Why has it been hush hush? What the score with road closures, what can I expect to be told asked to do? Asking because of your occupation but if it's not your field then no worries.
I contacted them with some questions about the road closure and asked if cars parked on the road side would need to be moved.
They replied today:
Tour de Yorkshire said:
Thank you for your interest in the Tour de Yorkshire. We don't know the exact timings for the starts and finishes yet - or when the race will be passing through towns and villages - but the races are expected to start in the hour around midday each day, and finished in the hour around teatime. Road closures will be announced in March. Most will be rolling road closures lasting no more than an hour, apart from the start & finish lines where the road closures will be longer. Hope this helps. As soon as they are available the timings will be on the Tour de Yorkshire website: www.letouryorkshire.com
You can also keep up-to-date with the latest news by signing up for our Tour de Yorkshire enewsletter, Allez Yorkshire: www.letouryorkshire.com/email
So basically haven't got very much organised at the moment!You can also keep up-to-date with the latest news by signing up for our Tour de Yorkshire enewsletter, Allez Yorkshire: www.letouryorkshire.com/email
Thanks for the reply Rob.
Yes, they have said it will 'probably' be rolling closures but as I said they don't seem to actually have very much confirmed.
It will effect me as it comes passed my house so I'll not be able to have free access when I want it. My car is parked on the roadside so I'll have to move that to stop the risk of damage by spectators or cyclist crashing!
RicksAlfas - We had a hand delivered letter this week to let us know about the A166 being closed overnight between us and Driffield. It had been in the local paper weeks ago! But the letter from ERYC gave a lot more information including contact numbers for the guy in charge.
I emailed my local councillor last Friday to ask him he had anymore information - no reply as yet!
I had an idea over the weekend - the event is being televised, my front garden is, barring the pavement, next to the road, anyone/business want to put a big advert banner up for free?
Greensleeves said:
There's rules for Motorsport about informing people along the route of rallies despite them only driving past and as yet, not closing the roads...
I've been involved in organising road rallies (the ones with selectives, yes I am that old!) and we had to notify the police etc. months in advance with exact times etc. and if we'd missed one small detail it would be knocked back.The first I knew about this was the press release.
I think they are trying to drum up interest/sponsorship and haven't worked out the fine details yet.
But not knowing or having planned the start times seems a bit odd.
bobbo89 said:
I really do think your worrying a bit too much....
I'm not really worrying more surprised about the way we have been informed and the seemingly lack of planning.We are on a sprint section so they will fly passed. I'll watch and may have a beer in hand as you suggest!
I remember years ago watch the TdF in France - hours of promo cars etc coming passed followed by 30 seconds of bikes!
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/ge...
Just a couple from the above:
"The Sheffield Hallam MP added: “As the most senior member of the Government from Yorkshire..."
Who then on the BBC news says that Hull is in Yorkshire!
"The Tour de Yorkshire will take place on the last weekend before polling day when Mr Clegg and his political colleagues are likely to be scrapping for votes.
He said: “One of the many reasons the Tour de Yorkshire will be so popular with the public is they will so utterly fed up with politics and politicians by that stage that the country will flee to escape the clutches of us campaigning politicians...”
You are not wrong there Nick!
.......
But £800k of our money when we as a country don't have any spare cash?
Just a couple from the above:
"The Sheffield Hallam MP added: “As the most senior member of the Government from Yorkshire..."
Who then on the BBC news says that Hull is in Yorkshire!
"The Tour de Yorkshire will take place on the last weekend before polling day when Mr Clegg and his political colleagues are likely to be scrapping for votes.
He said: “One of the many reasons the Tour de Yorkshire will be so popular with the public is they will so utterly fed up with politics and politicians by that stage that the country will flee to escape the clutches of us campaigning politicians...”
You are not wrong there Nick!
.......
But £800k of our money when we as a country don't have any spare cash?
sng45, Hull is not in the East Riding of Yorkshire, hence my comment.
As I'm sure you know Hull tried, last year, to nick a bit of the East Riding but the people of the East Riding told them to bugger off!
I'm not surprised by your wanting to be in the East Riding as it's a lovely place and by the way you spell your first name the wrong way as well!
As I'm sure you know Hull tried, last year, to nick a bit of the East Riding but the people of the East Riding told them to bugger off!
I'm not surprised by your wanting to be in the East Riding as it's a lovely place and by the way you spell your first name the wrong way as well!
Well it's over now so thought I'd let you know how it went.
Since my last post we have heard nothing but on Monday last week no parking notices went up.
No parking from 6am 'till 6pm on the day of the race.
I came home from work on Friday to find the roadside covered with no parking cones.
Then I got woken up on Saturday morning (the day the race comes through) at 6.30am by guys putting barriers out. So that was the reason for the no parking from 6am!
Spoke to one of the guys later in the day and he said they were very surprised by the amount of spectators in Brid.
The race was due to come past at 1.30pm, by 12 there was a lot of people and by 1pm there was a lot more. Must admit I was surprised at the number of spectators - the fish and chip shop and the pub appeared to be doing very good business!
The race came by in a flash! I really can't understand why people travel to watch it....woosh and it's over!
But the best bits by far were the police motorbikes and the police car at the end.
The bikes made an effort to entertain the crowd and the BMW X5 that came through after the cycles was waving and playing the sirens just for fun.
The really best bit was the police motorbikers that obviously needed to get somewhere very quickly - they really did use the excuse to have a bit of fun - 30mph limit, err, what 30mph limit!
Since my last post we have heard nothing but on Monday last week no parking notices went up.
No parking from 6am 'till 6pm on the day of the race.
I came home from work on Friday to find the roadside covered with no parking cones.
Then I got woken up on Saturday morning (the day the race comes through) at 6.30am by guys putting barriers out. So that was the reason for the no parking from 6am!
Spoke to one of the guys later in the day and he said they were very surprised by the amount of spectators in Brid.
The race was due to come past at 1.30pm, by 12 there was a lot of people and by 1pm there was a lot more. Must admit I was surprised at the number of spectators - the fish and chip shop and the pub appeared to be doing very good business!
The race came by in a flash! I really can't understand why people travel to watch it....woosh and it's over!
But the best bits by far were the police motorbikes and the police car at the end.
The bikes made an effort to entertain the crowd and the BMW X5 that came through after the cycles was waving and playing the sirens just for fun.
The really best bit was the police motorbikers that obviously needed to get somewhere very quickly - they really did use the excuse to have a bit of fun - 30mph limit, err, what 30mph limit!
Greensleeves said:
...... but as soon as you have cars averaging more than 30mph then you need to temporarily suspend the law.
With regards to PR, I would have thought that everyone who would be affected by closures should have received some sort of notification directly ....
Some of the support cars were not hanging about and the driving was very questionable.With regards to PR, I would have thought that everyone who would be affected by closures should have received some sort of notification directly ....
A couple of the police motorbikes were having a nice hoon, no problem because they were riding safely and were entertaining!
We had no direct contact only knew about it from the internet.
Chlorothalonil said:
Skeggysteve, do you live near Wetwang perchance?
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