To think I should be allowed to access my road 24/7?

[poopypants]

Cycle event. Road closures. I mean why is this s thing? People have lives. What if my holiday return flight booked a year ago before cycle events were published flew me in on this day! What if my pet needed the vet? What if I was pregnant and needed to get to an antenatal appointment ? What if I had a shift job that required me to leave home or I finished smack in the middle of the event? Hospital appointment? Dialysis appointment? Chemotherapy session? It's endless. People have lives that require them to be able to come and go. How is it ok to hold people hostage?

isn't there a detour?

I'm sure they'd let you through in an emergency. When they closed roads round here we had weeks of notice. How long are they closing it for?

Happens near me a lot. Roads shut at least 4 days a year for cycle events, twice a year for running events and then 4 days for a market. The market is the worst as it's no access at all to some roads for the duration.

Running events tend to be mornings only and the cycle events often have a "broom wagon" with a rolling road block and you can nip out or in under the marshalls instructions once the wagon has gone past.

It's frustrating but tends to bring in a lot of money for the town. I plan ahead and park a few streets away when my road is affected. Sometimes I've been working nights and had to park and walk which is a pita.

Just park outside the closed section for the day? How do you think people without cars manage? It's just one day. Take the opportunity to be a bit less car dependent

Huge thread a couple of months ago about a cycle event round Birmingham. Got very heated. I think a mare died after foaling as the vet wasn’t allowed through.

You don't own the road.
If you had a need to be elsewhere then you've had enough notice to leave your car somewhere else.
There are usually arrangements in place for emergencies.

And sod off with your ‘ just one day’ and ‘ be less car dependent’.

No there aren’t. And why should everyone pander to a bunch of MAMILs?

It’s ride 100. Everyone who lives anywhere near the route knows about this. It happens every year. Bore off.

We have have the stupid fucking velothon around here for a good few years now and our little village is shut off from everything else. I had an argument with a road cone man about needing to get to a client who needed urgent medication and all the shops, pubs and restaurants around here lose £thousands on the day.

Velothons are great for bringing the community together in moaning about velothons.

There’s events in our small town with road closures,anyone affected just parks in another street. There is life without a car, the whole town/village won’t be cut off.

Bore off?

Sheesh. Heard it all now.

Entitled fucking cyclists.

tobypercy so if I come and stand outside your house on monday and say ".no you must stay in, I'm not going to let you leave" that would be ok would it?
You don't have the right of access to your own property then.
Because effectively, this is what happens during some cycle events.

Poopypants would this perchance be the Prudential London Surrey race next weekend? What I want to know is why they can’t alter the location as in County every year. Add in, London Kent, London Berkshire, London Essex. I am a caring sharing type of person so would like many more people to be part of/suffer this. Even better would be to close the M25 and race round that using it as a velodrome.

You can't walk out of your front door?

Chocolatelover45

So you think people on chemotherapy/dialysis or other medical condition, the elderly, those arriving back in the country with luggage are being 'too car dependent? How does your brain work?

They dont stop pedestrian access, only cars 🤷‍♀️ we have it loads round here. Cycling, half marathons, 10k, triathlon. Its endless weekends through the summer.
I say just plan around it.
Roads are closed for maintenance, accidents etc all the time. It's no different imo.

If you live in some of the smaller villages no you can’t leave your home. These are ones without pavements so pedestrians have nowhere to walk.

BlueSky no idea what event you are taking about. It's not that. So you bore off.

Flights are booked up to a year in advance. Before published cycle events. And who the hell looks up cycle events when booking hols.

As for chemo or dialysis. Should people just die?

A mare died recently as a vet wasn't allowed through.

It's ridiculous.

I've had this here. Disabled neighbour with wife that can't walk. Medical problem. They drove right through it (no come back on them as far as I know).

I love the idea to close the M25 for a day. People can take other routes, part could still be available for emergency vehicles going places - but other than that, no traffic. Brilliant.

You are allowed to access ‘your road’ which doesn’t actually belong to you. Your car is not for a number of hours on a single day. Park your car where it is allowed and walk. There’s a road closed near me for over a year while they demolish a bridge, build a new road underneath, and then re-build the bridge. It’s mighty inconvenient but it’s not my god given right to access it.

Great idea.

People say "Oh it's only once a year and you get notice."
Well where I live we have - two different carnivals, a half marathon, a 10k race, a santa toy run and a big Sikh parade. That's just off the top of my head and I've probably forgotten things. They all involve road closures and they don't all give a lot of notice. Add to that we live in an awkward triangle between a motorway a railway line and a river which means access out of my area is actually quite limited.
Mostly it's just a little annoying, there are ways round and we usually manage to avoid any problems. However sometimes emergencies happen and to find the main road totally closed off for a significant time can really make things hard.
The event mentioned in Birmingham sounded awful because it was set in a circular route, there were no rolling roadblocks, they were closed for the entire event and there didn't seem to have been any thought put into the fact that some people would still need to enter and exit within the circle. Jobs, commitments, emergencies - it doesn't stop just because of a bike race.

Agreed, why does their hobby have to trump other peoples enjoyment/use of the road. It is to be shared for all !!
Also, why do cyclist ride on the road when there is a perfectly good cycling path. I think they should be fined if one is available.