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?

So glad we moved away from the road closure areas. I got shouted at for wanting to cross a road on foot to get out of our boxed in area with my infant.

So nope there was no foot exit without a row and basically just walking out and to hell with it.

Parking further away wouldn’t of helped.

Well clearly, but Ride London isn't just IN London. I live outside the M25, so clearly not IN London....

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Happened near me, a horse owner needed the vet for her about to give birth Mare, plus his car full of equipment. Foal and Mare died, I believe.

Within 3 weeks we've had the Tour de France, and now the Tour de Vlaams Brabant. I think we also had the Tour de Flandres as well. The village and surrounding roads get closed and you have to skip very fast out of the way of the peleton if you are crossing the road as they whizz past.

I do live in Belgium, so cycle races are a part of the summer, and you have to work around them.

I realise this applies to half the threads on AIBU, but it's so hard to judge others' situations. If my road was blocked off, I could easily walk the other direction, catch a regular bus from a different road etc.

There are developments locally that are accessed by one single road, which is an unpopular design flaw anyhow, and further out of town there are villages where only one bus passes by every hour. In the event of a road closure, I don't think it would be feasible to reach another bus or rail service without a full-on hill walk.

It's a similar story with London tube strikes. So easy to picture your own route and say don't be lazy, just walk. If you're living in the outer zones with a motorway between you and the city that's not practical.

I won't get into how valid particular events are, just wanted to highlight that we aren't always picturing the same scenario.

I’m doing Ride London next Sunday and I am absolutely shitting myself! I’m not a pro cyclist but I’m doing it to raise money for a charity close to my heart. I lost a friend at the age of 38 to Lung Cancer and I try to raise money to support them with their research so they can hopefully find a cure.
I’m sorry if this puts people out as I honestly haven’t thought about that side of things but most people doing this aren’t doing it to purposely upset people. I imagine most are raising money for charity.

OP you must live round the corner from me. It's been the same for the last 8 years. Nothing is going to change, the money the ride brings in is too important. Every year I've had to make arrangements to support my elderly, vulnerable parents. I dread my DM having an issue, I won't be able to get to her.

But people are raising money for charidee so it's ok.

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Yea crack on love.

Yea crack on love

You’re bizarrely aggressive over this issue...especially given you appear to be responding to posters doing exactly what you posted earlier.

Maybe hide the thread, so much angst really can’t be good for you.

It’s a few hours, I need to be at certain checkpoints at a certain time so they can reopen roads.
It might be ‘charidee’ but where do you think they get the money from for research etc?

Oh please. There are many ways of raising money that don't have a negative impact on others.

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.

Not good enough. I want a hand delivered leaflet, and I want someone to knock on my door and deliver a verbal message as well. But don’t expect me to actually answer the door, because you know, MNers don’t open the front door to strangers.

A few hours impact and that’s too much for you. Ok crack on love.

@UrsulaPandress you’re so miserable ‘negative impact on other people’ Almost every large public thing has a negative impact on someone.

Do you think people who live near Wembley love the total travel chaos at gig kicking our time?

Or the people who live near football stadiums and get caught up in traffic and people every other Saturday?

Or the people who live on the same street as schools and have twatty parents parking inconsiderately twice a day?

Or the great north run? Or is that ok because fat unfit women toddle round it and don’t seem so intimidating to you?

Yep that's me. Permanently miserable.

Ok then it doesn’t matter wether the roads blocked or not. You’re miserable regardless.

I agree it's a pain. Someone's hobby inconveniences so many peoples lives.
I live in the country and there are constantly herds of cyclists blocking the road, they never pull over in the passing places to allow you to get by as they are all timing themselves trying to get a personal best (It's impossible to overtake as the road is only wide enough for one car). You can be stuck behind them for miles and miles - they have no consideration for anyone else.
I sometimes cycle myself but I always pull over in a passing place and I have trained my kids to do the same if they cycle.

BlueSkiesLies people who live near Wembley and football stadiums, concert venues, etc. moved to those areas in full knowledge that the proximity would come with predictable drawbacks.

Not so people who live in areas that have been chosen for a bike race or a 10K or whatever.

Aren't you a charmer icantstopeatinglol

UrsulaPandress I don’t think it’s really necessary to be quite so aggressive, it’s only a forum

You're right blueskies.
Most big events have some impact on those around it.

Every event that's affected me has had letters through saying to contact the organisers if there's an access issue or in the towns there's been marshals on the access point (e.g. being able to go straight across a cross roads but not left or right) and they wave residents across.

There was an event in my region and my Facebook was full of bitching from narrow minded people talking about wanting to run people over because their journey on a diversion took 10 minutes longer. The hilarious thing is when there's local 'festivals' that mean blocking off variojs town centres and drinking from 11am they're the ones there. That's acceptable, but a local triathlon or running event warrants a monumental amount of frothing. How dare these entitled people have fitness events.

I think some people think they should never be inconvenienced by anything that doesn't personally interest them.

It's a sad world indeed when research into horrific diseases relies on charity contributions.