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Edinburgh set to host Tour de France Grand Départ in 2027
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Apparently it’s being announced tomorrow, with ‘cycling clubs’ being invited to flashmob.
Anyone know time/place?
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Tour de France 2027
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Posted 3 months ago #
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Ever since the public transport corridor over the Forth opened I've said they should take the race over it.
Posted 3 months ago # -
CCE + bsky/twitter friends drinks meet up - Summerhall (if still in operation), June 2027
(thought about doing its own thread, but that might be tempting fate).
Should be fun!
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That's what I call planning ahead!
Posted 3 months ago # -
I would be up for that - but more importantly, beers some time in the next month or two.
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Posted 3 months ago #
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Well I'm in a bad mood and I feel like sharing so: there goes the active travel budget for the next couple of years gents, got to make sure the route is nice and pretty for the cameras.
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Can we turn this around so that we get the council to actually build some active travel infra, as a precondition/legacy to the race?
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Posted 3 months ago #
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“But when a decision needed to be made we needed the resources set aside hence the process that we went through. I now regret and feel we should have either come to culture and communities [committee] before that or this committee [...] but the decision signing on the dotted line, no officer has made such a decision because we haven’t set the resources aside to do so.”
He added: “We should have used committee as a place to get that formal commitment. But I think because I felt there was broad cross-party support we could get on with it, set the money aside and come back and talk about the event in detail.”
Officers said they hoped the £1.7m could eventually be covered by income from the city’s upcoming visitor levy, or ‘tourist tax’, as they expect the event to generate extra revenue.
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Posted 3 days ago #
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