Tour de Yorkshire will make York residents "prisoners in own homes" says local man

I shouldn't worry about anything in the York Press, it's one step away from being handed out free with the supermarket promo leaflets.

well the crowds as expected are magnificent again !!

These odd moaners should STFU and let those people enjoy it

Where is freespirit? I thought his cycling prisoner alarm would have been going right off.

Or is he still trapped in his house from the last Ride London 100?

It's funny, you should see what Hillsborough looks like when Sheffield Wednesday are playing- and that's every other week! You'd think from the outside that it was in lock-down but it really isn't. The authorities do a really good job at keeping in all running.

Luckily nobody interviews any braindead NIMBY idiots to see if they can write a crap story about being 'trapped'. It'd be a waste of fresh air and could effect a historic sport club that isn't actually causing any harm.

My advise- ignore them, they don't matter. If they haven''t got the brains to work out how to get out of their not-blocked-off houses where they're not imprisoned then their opinion is hardly valid.

Perhaps I should cancel the hotel booking I have made in York expressly to see The Tour of Yorkshire ?

Perhaps I should cancel the hotel booking I have made in York expressly to see The Tour of Yorkshire ?

People who don't regularly ride a bicycle do have a bit of a blind spot for non-cycling events (or, conversely, a sensitive spot for cycling events), mind.

I appreciate it's not the same thing, but my local council (Bristol) announced that it was closing the Circular Road, on an area of parkland called the Downs, for a cycling event. Specifically, to allow families and others to cycle around there without having to mix it with the cars.

To hear our local press report it, you'd think that this was the end of the world. Commenters on their website saying how its disgusting and will cause traffic chaos (because Bristol doesn't have that already, apparently...), and how 'we will be prisoners in our own homes'.

I thought, wow - this is going to be really big, and looked into it in more detail.

It turns out that the council are closing this road (which is just a loop around the Downs, easily bypassed for access purposes if you have to drive) for a grand total of three hours, on a Sunday morning, once this year (next weekend, actually).

And this is the apocalyptic event which will make people 'prisoners in their own homes' (TM)?

Yet all of these same people appear to be blind to the fact that all day Saturday, for every Saturday during the football season, the local amateur football league fills up the entire Downs with their football pitches, and you can't park a car up there because of all the footballers parking up along the verges so they don't have to walk too far.

But that's OK, because you can still drive around it on the road

imprisoned ... For one day ... there's always walking although i suspect
that wouldn't be considered by "local man" as that would mean
physical exertion ... twats !

"according to one local resident"...

He doesn't look happy does he in the picture, (York Press link).

Looks to me that the paper went out looking for a negative response and found it. It's not a bad paper overall, our cats enjoy it in the litter tray. There's plenty of grief directed at York Council because of its transport issues, Lendal Bridge fiasco for instance and I think there's folk who want to turn a positive event into a negative gripe.

“The idea that we need bread and circuses to get people into York is a joke.”

I don't go to York for bread either and cycling isn't a circus, not to say there aren't some clowns on bikes out there but there are a lot more knuckle dragging apes in cars, people stuck in their homes, starring out, licking the glass....they need something to look forward to!

I would have thought that the emergency services would in fact find them self with improved access as if it's an emergency they can use the route which is entirely with out obstruction unless you count the riders, who can be stopped by the marshals if need be.

Which is seldom the case on any other day in a city centre full of badly parked cars and egotists who refuse to move for ambulances.

Will nobody think of the children! What will this do to house prices? Some of my best friends are cyclists!

FFS.

A someone who lives inside the loop of the York circuit I hope I won't be imprisoned in my home. I'd rather hoped to go and watch the race.

There should be an immediate investigation into who cut off those poor peoples legs

lack of access for emergency services? Pretty sure with the event planning for this sort of thing "emergency services shall have absolute priority over the race" (or words to that effect) are prominently featured in the planning documents.

Whatever happened to the Dunkirk or Blitz spirit these people go one about?

You would have thought 'The disabled' would be happy for the event to come to them for a change....

I bet that if TdY never went to York in the future that there would be complaints about the unfairness of it all and how much the city was loosing out ! !

some people just have to moan - around these parts people are 'imprisoned in their homes' when it snows and their little side road doesn't take priority for the snowplough over the main routes, when the police close a road after an accident, when road works mean they have to take a slightly longer route to somewhere

all 'Imprisoned in their homes' means is that they can't use the car for a few hours or need to park it a few streets away if they do and the people who moan the loudest seem often to be retired people who have the most time to make alternative arrangements, the least need to travel and yet seem the most incapable of any kind of planning for these contingencies

The man is a full blown idiot whinger.
We are cut off once a year for the Great North Run.
No one complains. Most walk to the edge of the estate to cheer it past actually
No one suffers as the bluelight services can still get though

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Back in the day entire communities were imprisoned in their homes, sometimes for their whole lives. But then the bicycle was invented, which saved everyone from such misery.

Fixed that for you...

Back in the day entire communities were imprisoned in their homes, sometimes for their whole lives. But then the motor car was invented, which saved everyone from such misery.

'As someone who will be cut off from the outside world by the Manchester marathon next week,'

how will you be cut off from the outside world? Is your front door to be nailed shut? Or do you mean that you won't be able to use a car for a short time?

Isn't this a bit of a non-story? It's one local resident, who's spoken to a couple of their friends. If there 1000s protesting that would be one thing. But there is precisely nothing in this world that you wouldn't be able to find one person who is against it. I know people who don't even like Creme Eggs!