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

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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?

Yo presumably if the road is closed it's safe to walk on it. Or do you mean anywhere you want to go isn't in walking distance

Honestly, people are do self righteous. People who are not disabled or infirm. Who are not reliant on life saving treatments. People who don't actually have lives that require them to be able to be out and about at a moments notice. People who don't have dc with cerebral palsy or some other life limiting condition that means they can't just walk a wee bit. (God are they lazy or what ) People who don't work for peanuts doing night shifts at a hospital looking after us and who arrive home in the middle of the day after a 12 hour shift and frankly don't want to have to walk another 20mins in 30+ degree heat because some freaking cycle event has closed their road. Some people have needs. Needs that go way beyond done Lycra clad cycle event.

But hey, I guess if it doesn't affect you, it's ok.

I can’t walk far. I need my car. Sorry.

Thanks Wind. I genuinely think it would be a brilliant idea, really exciting to watch. There are overhead bridges in many places where viewing would be possible. People managed before the motorways and if there was enough notice given shouldn’t be a problem.

We have one annually. It very clearly states on the letter you get about the road closures to contact the organisers in the event of a situation requiring access, as you have outlined in your OP.

Don’t panic, you’re not being held hostage. In any event, each road will surely be closed on a rolling basis.

If there is no pavement in the village you can't walk on the road because you will get mown down by hundreds of bloody bikes. All so a business makes lots of money and bloody cyclists can have a fun day out!
It is unreasonable and we need to vote out councils who allow it to happen.

YABU to expect cyclists to be anything other than pains in the arse.

OP I think you’re being a bit dramatic, yes we are aware everyone has different needs but if you know in advance and it’s one day you can prepare for it. Unlike heavy snowfalls which often surprise us and require us to be accommodating.

and they are not all rolling closures some places are cut off all day. If you don't live somewhere that allow these things, you really have no idea how restrictive it is.

Happened in my town a couple of years back. They basically split the town in two, if you were on the wrong side you had to drive to the motorway, take two junctions and come off in another town to get back. Great for the environment!

There was a lot of complaints and luckily it hasn't been back. I think it was Velo.

If you don't live somewhere that allow these things, you really have no idea how restrictive it is

I do

UrsulaPandress

I can’t walk far. I need my car. Sorry.
Yep, fair enough!

I used to have this and it was so annoying! They didn't send letters with details - if you were lucky they'd put signs on the road, but often the signs were much higher up the road so I didn't necessarily see them.

It was at least 3 times a year.

People love to moan!

Jacqes and your ok with it? WHY?

Stealth try walking along a narrow country road with no pavements and several hundred cyclists coming belting along it. You wouldn’t be allowed to to anyway as the race martial would stop you. And for those saying just walk out of the area. You can’t do that either, we were stopped from even crossing the road last year.

I would add that I walked down to the end of my road and watched the races and enjoyed them but have sympathy with those needing access out of the area.

Great local event.
Great for the local economy.

Worst with ours was what they advertised it as being in a different bloody town. It was only when you actually looked at the specific closures that you realised. A lot of people didn't look due to the aforementioned different town.

Oh yuck, have got an advert for cycling come up next to this thread with a sweaty man in Lycra on it.

Not bikes or runners or anything like that, but at our old place we had the annual meeting of a certain controversial political party twice in consecutive years. Our street was right in the security cordon. That meant from Friday afternoon access was closed off until Sunday evening. Theoretically there was one way in and out but by Friday night loads of protesters were camping out there. Police vehicles parked everywhere. Police officers blocking every possible path, even for pedestrians.

We were separated from the venue by a small river and a road. As we could not leave (no guarantee we would be able to get back, plus I did not fancy having to pass through the hordes of protesters and the police with their water cannons...) we camped out at the window and watched the police ferry out people they arrested on chartered busses... Fun times... 😠

So yes, I hate road closures.

Only good for the economy of the start/finish not for the villages in between. They get all the restrictions and no benefit. In fact they lose normal economic activity.

How do you moany lot manage when it snows more than 4mm and everything in this country grinds to a halt for no good reason? At least these events have good notice, raise a lot of money for charity and are enjoyed by tens of thousands of people. Heaven forbid you could actually enter one one year

YANBU.

Pets have died because of these road closures.

I completely agree with you, OP. This happens where I live (beautiful and popular coastal resort) and it is a PITA.

And the PP posting that you are "enjoying a moan", despite your valid points re: access for ill/ disabled people trumping the rights of a hobbyist group to thoughtlessly take over a town/ village, needs to give their head a wobble.

Only good for the economy of the start/finish not for the villages in between. They get all the restrictions and no benefit. In fact they lose normal economic activity

Guess that depends where you are surely. Given the routes here and the space between villages, they all benefit - especially food/drink and local produce outlets.