2014 Tour de France will start in Yorkshire and come to Sheffield

[Anna Glypta]

The number of buses, back-up cars, media will be massive, not to mention the spectators. However, with careful planning, you can virtually hold a stage finish anywhere. Take a look at the many DVD's of the stage finishes in France, these small towns cope quite well. Sheffield has many car-parks and a good public transport system, good organization and planning will solve all the access problems. Millsie

 

They certainly could. If you saw the infrastructure that follows the Grand Prix racing circus around it dwarfs anything that might follow a cycle event. Yet Monaco manages quite well to accommodate them, the TV crews, the local population and 200,000 visitors into a principality the size of a Sheffield housing estate. It does so for an entire weekend, not just a few hours.

[No User Name]

The number of buses, back-up cars, media will be massive, not to mention the spectators. However, with careful planning, you can virtually hold a stage finish anywhere. Take a look at the many DVD's of the stage finishes in France, these small towns cope quite well. Sheffield has many car-parks and a good public transport system, good organization and planning will solve all the access problems. Millsie

 

Indeed, however much easier to hold it where it has been planned rather than in the city centre, would you agree with that?

 

Single yellow parking restrictions are a ridiculous thing to bring into this discussion.

[dutch]

Huddersfield, Holmfirth get huge TV screens in city centre for fans to follow tour.

[millsie]

Agree with you guys totally. I'm sure that you would have a better idea than me re best finishing location as I am only an occasional visitor to Sheffield these day, even though I spent my first 22 years there. It would indeed be easier to hold it as planned, I would just like Sheffield to be able to maximise the financial and tourism benefits. And, above all, it will be a great day and I hope that everyone gets behind the Race. I am coming from Australia for a holiday, but my timing is based around the first 2 Stages, as indeed will many thousands of T de F enthusiasts so I hope to see a lot of Yorkshire smiles. Always wanted to see the start of the Tour and now I can cross it off my 'Bucket List'!

See you there, Millsie

[Anna Glypta]

Indeed, however much easier to hold it where it has been planned rather than in the city centre, would you agree with that?

 

Single yellow parking restrictions are a ridiculous thing to bring into this discussion.

 

That's hardly the point is it. It would bring more prestige and exposure to Sheffield if it finished in the city centre rather than some run down suburb on the outskirts.

The reason that it was not planned that way is because Sheffield through its own actions made it an unsuitable place through the council's hatred of motorists.

 

So instead of spending £900,000 to highlight Sheffield and bring visitors to the city centre, we are spending £900,000 to show the world what a dump the east end of the city has become. I'm sure the world media will send out footage of the heaps of rubble that were the Don Valley Stadium and tell the world that The Rolling Stones used to play here before the place went down the tubes.

[alchresearch]

Perhaps if they allowed folks to park on single yellow lines as we could up till a year ago there would be.

 

I found a cheap wasteland car parking just off Division Street. Was good enough for me on a Saturday to visit the city. I'd rather pay that suffer indoor mall hell.

[Agent Orange]

That's hardly the point is it. It would bring more prestige and exposure to Sheffield if it finished in the city centre rather than some run down suburb on the outskirts.

The reason that it was not planned that way is because Sheffield through its own actions made it an unsuitable place through the council's hatred of motorists.

 

So instead of spending £900,000 to highlight Sheffield and bring visitors to the city centre, we are spending £900,000 to show the world what a dump the east end of the city has become. I'm sure the world media will send out footage of the heaps of rubble that were the Don Valley Stadium and tell the world that The Rolling Stones used to play here before the place went down the tubes.

 

You are getting silly now with these stupid assertions.

 

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Perhaps if they allowed folks to park on single yellow lines as we could up till a year ago there would be.

 

How is allowing people to park on single yellows making more space for the entourage? The support vehicles will be given special staging areas, so the silly yellow line argument does not hold any weight.

[Anna Glypta]

You are getting silly now with these stupid assertions.

 

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How is allowing people to park on single yellows making more space for the entourage? The support vehicles will be given special staging areas, so the silly yellow line argument does not hold any weight.

 

Not silly just beyond your IQ.

 

Allowing folks to park on single yellow lines frees up the space for the entourage. Making more parking spaces available allows more people to park.

 

Simple isn't it when an adult explains it to you?

[Agent Orange]

Not silly just beyond your IQ.

 

Allowing folks to park on single yellow lines frees up the space for the entourage. Making more parking spaces available allows more people to park.

 

Simple isn't it when an adult explains it to you?

 

The entourage will be parking in designated staging areas on and/or on end of the course, free from non TdF traffic so the space will already be available to them without the need to allow people to park on single yellows.

 

As for everyone else, there's more than enough parking available in town and the surrounding areas so the yellow line argument is void.

Edited March 26, 2014 by Agent Orange

[Anna Glypta]

The entourage will be parking in designated staging areas on/or end of the course, free from non TdF traffic so the space will already be available to them.

 

As for everyone else, there's more than enough parking available in town and the surrounding areas so the yellow line argument is void.

 

Well we all realise that as one of the council's designated excuse makers, you like planner1 will make every excuse in the book to try to put some gloss on this.

 

The fact remains, and everyone including you knows it, that Sheffield would get valuable TV and media exposure if the TDF finished in the city outside the town hall. But because of the petty minded car hating attitude that is pedaled around here the city cannot cope and therefore the media will broadcast the tour finishing in a wasteland of graffiti scrawled buildings, and call it Sheffield.

That is how Sheffield is going to be portrayed to the world. It is how Sheffield is already viewed by the world, and is a reason why Sheffield lags behind when the rest of the country is experiencing growth. We can't even find anyone to develop the city centre.