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

[hyper 10]

Doom and gloom were not my message. .

Ahem .. cough cough

 

go on, have the balls to say it turned out to be great and redeem yourself

[999tigger 10]

 

I realise that, but the point I was making is that a few weeks ago there weren't even enough ambulances to deal with a life threatening incident.

 

In our case we were told not to bother waiting for the ambulance, but to head to the hospital in the car.

 

Contingencies had been made for blue light services to get through the roadblocks, but not cars.

 

Regards

 

Doom

 

Think we are nearly making the same point. My point would be that there are other factors which affect emergency services in a far greater way that the scaremongering warnings that were being spouted on here. Lack of ambulances due to funding or going on strike would have a far greater effect on patient safety for everyone than having to cross yesterdays course. We dont hear the same person commenting on that.

 

In your circumstances, then if youd have gone to the police and stated it was an emergency I really cant see them not escorting you across or letting you cross at one of the access points as a matter of common sense. Considering the sheer volume and movemement of people then the organisation and planning for the event appears to have been a massive success.

 

The other point about an event organised by the council, then I agree completely with you.

The trick of weekend was about Yorkshire and not any individual city or town. I would much prefer to be involved in a collective thing with Verity et al who understand what they are doing than some attempt by the SCC.

 

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Ahem .. cough cough

 

go on, have the balls to say it turned out to be great and redeem yourself

 

Do you think he even watched it?

[Blackbeard 10]

The Mall in London was closed yesterday, imagine if the Queen or Phil had been taken ill, how would they have saved them? Charles the 111 could have been on the throne today.

[BEDROCK 10]

Think we are nearly making the same point. My point would be that there are other factors which affect emergency services in a far greater way that the scaremongering warnings that were being spouted on here. Lack of ambulances due to funding or going on strike would have a far greater effect on patient safety for everyone than having to cross yesterdays course. We dont hear the same person commenting on that.

 

In your circumstances, then if youd have gone to the police and stated it was an emergency I really cant see them not escorting you across or letting you cross at one of the access points as a matter of common sense. Considering the sheer volume and movemement of people then the organisation and planning for the event appears to have been a massive success.

 

The other point about an event organised by the council, then I agree completely with you.

The trick of weekend was about Yorkshire and not any individual city or town. I would much prefer to be involved in a collective thing with Verity et al who understand what they are doing than some attempt by the SCC.

 

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Do you think he even watched it?

 

Going on the cancelled marathon shambles...

 

I would not let our council anywhere near it !!!

[Blackbeard 10]

Going on the cancelled marathon shambles...

 

I would not let our council anywhere near it !!!

 

Did the council run the marathon? I must have missed that bit.

[Speckled Hen 10]

Did the council run the marathon? I must have missed that bit.

 

I would imagine the council's officers were heavily involved as it involved closing roads and putting up barriers, public parks etc etc. That would be pretty much the same with the tour de france.

[alchresearch 214]

yesterday Julie Dore was on the radio suggesting she'd had an idea for a cycle race in Sheffield.

 

Like this?

 

http://www.sheffieldgrandprix.co.uk/

 

I was reading up on the old Milk Race and Kellogs Tour of Britain and found this UK cycle race:

 

http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/stages/index.php#.U7vBUUAmxNE

[RichJay 10]

It's not a race but there is a Sky Ride in Sheffield in August...

 

http://www.goskyride.com/sheffieldSkyRide

[dosxuk 10]

I would imagine the council's officers were heavily involved as it involved closing roads and putting up barriers, public parks etc etc. That would be pretty much the same with the tour de france.

 

You realise anyone can apply to have roads closed, or put up barriers, or use public parks. You don't need to use any of the council's staff to implement any of them.

[Speckled Hen 10]

You realise anyone can apply to have roads closed, or put up barriers, or use public parks. You don't need to use any of the council's staff to implement any of them.

 

Oh really. That's pretty funny.

[dosxuk 10]

Oh really.

 

Yes really. I've done numerous events on closed roads, where we've put out the fencing, and not a sign of a single council worker.

 

Similarly with events in parks, normally you just have one bloke who opens the gates and gives you access to power, then you're on your own until it's time to go home. You have to send the council bits of paperwork, but unless you want to pay them to come and work for you, you get left to sort it out yourself. There isn't a building full of people waiting for an event so they can all go and try to cause as much chaos as possible.

[shanes teeth 10]

Real important things like ambulances not coming are boring news and will not get attention, it does not entertain the crowd.

Paedophile sex offenders cases that happened a quarter of a century ago are entertaining, it may be history but the crowd loves it.

 

 

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Interesting to see this reporter on telly yells out loud that with the finish in London the tour is over. He then says stage one from leeds etc. stage two Yorkshire etc. and with the finish in London the great tour is over, without one single mention of the tour continuing for another eighteen stages in france.

This is what I mean that there is little insight in the total overall worldwide picture and this reporter also clearly shows how the cycling is only important on UK soil or else they don't bother much about it, does not even mention france in all the report.

 

All the happiness and excitement was needed for the crowd to get high and happily excited. It is a social tension relief. Society gets tense and frustrated then suddenly comes an opportunity to suddenly release that tension like in an orgasm so they feel better and proud again. The tour was a perfect and very effective way for that to happen.

 

Anybody seen the Armstrong lie on channel 4 last night? It is best reporting film on doping drugs bloodtransfusions going on for centuries in the tour the france.

The tour may be fun but many cyclists had their titles remove because of cheating, it was common practise in what is called the greatest sport on this forum. (cheating could still be going on very likely)

 

And what about the ones that don't subscribe?Do they stay at home and indulge in a bit of onanism?