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?

People still need care on a Sunday.

Is this the same London that is the capital city of the UK? It's not remotely anti-car.

No this is Paris where they close the roads to car use just because they can.

There are many cities around the world that have car free initiatives and one particular city in Spain has found that by doing so the elderly and disabled have actually benefited

Do people get chemotherapy on a Sunday?

Usually only those requiring in-patient care

all the shops, pubs and restaurants around here lose £thousands on the day.

You must live in a very wealthy area if the pubs near you usually make £1000s in a day! Surely having these events means that such places make more money as they have a captive audience"

After encountering a cycle race on an unopened road I'd much rather seen roads closed than these unregulated and unsafe races.
We very nearly hit a group of cyclists on a blind bend (bed in the road), ironically we were going slowly, 20moh max when a group on both sides of the road at 40mph came straight at us, we swerved off the road to avoid hitting anyone and the Marshalls and race organisers told us it was our fault, thankfully when we contacted the police they were more understanding.
Whose right or wrong doesn't change the fact that a road race on open roads is insanely dangerous.
Road closures are a nusiance but preferable to injuries, advance warning allows for those with medical conditions to sort a reasonable adjustment/arrangement. As for genuine emergency there's always a way.

Not unopened!! An enclosed...a road that was still open for cars!

Roads dont just belong to cars.

And why should everyone pander to a bunch of MAMILs?

One of the good things about Rde London is the level of female participation

@poopypants please stop using chemo so melodramatically to make a point. Your holiday is not equivalent and it's really, really fucking off to use other people's cancers to load drama on to your point.

Loads of people have chemo and can't use cars at all because treatment makes them too ill to drive, and some hospitals don't have parking anyway.

I'm sure it's annoying, but it really isn't the end of the world. Unlike, say, cancer.

MAWILs then

AuntieStella you seem to have a lot of faith in "welfare assistance provision". We were promised this too, but come the week and day of the event the contacts couldn't even be reached and utter chaos followed

Yes, I have a generally positive opinion because it normally works well. And you should be giving them merry hell for not provding what they undertook to provide when you first contacted them. As publicly as possible and definitely with councillors copied in

@perfectstorm
OP has been asked what is her urgency but still not replied. Hopefully she realises how insulting she’s been, woe betide her having to wheel her cases 🙄

Regarding Ride London, no it is not always the same weekend. It is in August this year and has been July previously. The leaflets for residents were only put through residents doors a fortnight ago and the road signs only a couple of days before that.

I am hoping the weather will be better this year as it pissed with rain in 2018. I don’t like the race but moved to an area where it passes through so accept that is my problem. I am not one of these people who whine about church bells when they have moved to an area with them or cocks crowing early mornings.

There was one near us. Horse went into foal at the yard down the road but there was a problem with the labour and the owner called the emergency vet. They wouldn’t allow him through so the mare and foal died.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/mare-foal-die-vet-held-cycle-race-steward-687110/amp

So those that say there are ‘detours’ it’s not always the case....

Heaven forbid you could actually enter one one year
Oh yes i’d love to, oh wait i have disabilities which makes even walking hard enough
Also have disabled pet which doesn’t give me notice when it’s going to be ill.

Yanbu.
The last event animals died, so much for the people claiming ‘medical and vets could get through’

Absolutely agree that not enough consideration is given to disabled/infirm, shift workers and mobile health providers for these events. I used to manage a community health compqny and these events really impact on disbled people with carers or nurses coming to support them at home. There needs to be some sort of middle ground where there is some access allowed

@YoTheGinPussy and OP you can actually find out on the Prudential website when they plan the next one.

I actually moved to my area years before it was an idea but it doesn't bother me and I've actually volunteered to help most years. When I haven't like last year and this year I know I can't use my car or the bus and just plan around it.

There is a dialysis place near me which is used 7 days a week but some how for the last few years they have managed when the Ride is on.

Also the emergency services can get through to the local A&E and fire station as long as the marshals don't send cars on a wild goose chase for an open road like they did last year. This blocked lots of local roads and caused issues.

We have this next weekend.....it has got me out of a visit to my MIL so silver linings and all that!!

Ride London 2020 will be on Sunday 16th August.
There you go, more than 12 months notice for all of you that are taken by surprise by this annual, long standing event.

Is this Ride London? The dates are known pretty much a year ahead. It is one day. In emergencies they will let people through/ambulances. It's a Sunday so you are unlikely to be getting Chemotherapy. If pregnant and due then I probably would book into the Travelodge or stay with friends/relatives.

Most cycle races do not shut the road, or do so for only brief periods.
I prefer Ride London to the local Marathon which has rubbish advanced notice of Road closures (and has caught me out on more than one occasion); Ride London has signs up for at least a month in advance.

It is rare that emergency services (including emergency vets) do not get through.

And people need to make the most godawful fuss whenever there is even the smallest glitch in emergency or welfare access.

Meh, I'm totally blocked off by Ride London all day. I plan to make the most of it. We get together with friends and have a party every year.

ColaFreezePop like I said in my post I accept it is my problem. In fact what I will be doing is watching bits of it on the TV and walking the two minutes down the road to see the cyclists go past and then go home again.

Incidentally what is good fun is if you know someone who is riding. You can track their progress on the Ride London app then know when it is worth going out to cheer them on.

www-horseandhound-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/mare-foal-die-vet-held-cycle-race-steward-687110/amp?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQA#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.horseandhound.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fmare-foal-die-vet-held-cycle-race-steward-687110

It's not just about London fgs. These things happen in other places you know.