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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 6 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 6 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!
Posted 6 months ago # -
That's what I call planning ahead!
Posted 6 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 6 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.
Posted 6 months ago # -
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 6 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 months ago # -
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This week he was forced to admit it was “inappropriate” but felt a positive informal discussion with political group leaders in October was enough to proceed.
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Posted 3 months ago # -
I think it will end up with just one stage in Scotland. Either a time trial or stage starting and ending in Edinburgh. The 2nd and 3rd stages are to be in England and Wales.
Central Edinburgh doesn't seem ideal for a sprint finish. Melville Drive perhaps would be suitable. Trams tracks would seem to rule out Princes Street.
Posted 3 months ago # -
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She is hopeful, though, if not optimistic, that by the time 2027 comes around, her legacy to British cycling will be properly acknowledged. “If you are going to mention my previous existence you’re going to have to mention who I am now,” she said. “I haven’t disappeared, and I haven’t died. I am not a refugee from who I was before.”
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Posted 2 months ago # -
@mga we have lots of stage ideas.
How about a time trial finishing up the royal mile?
Posted 2 months ago # -
Thought i had our league won from Wout’s stellar effort. Given we were all too cool to pick Pog. But there is always a weird factor in the final total So All Hail King Zog
Posted 2 months ago # -
@gembo I missed your genuflection on Friday
@chdot wahoo!
Posted 1 month ago # -
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Edinburgh councillors have agreed to set aside £1.7m to cover costs of hosting the start of the men's Tour de France 2027.
Funding to host the opening stage of the world's most famous cycling race will come from income from the city's visitor levy
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04qnn44y47o?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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The 'total cost' of bringing the Tour de France to Edinburgh has been revealed for the first time — but the full scale of public funding required to support the 2027 event remains unclear.
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Posted 2 days ago # -
If this wasn't cycling-related, the headline would have been:
"Tour de France expected to bring more than £131million in economic benefits to Edinburgh"
Posted 2 days ago # -
From the report above:
Major events such as the Tour de France allow activation and amplification of a range of active lifestyle and policy agendas, including active travel; increased participation by women in cycling; promotion and increased use of active travel
infrastructure projects in the cityI thought it had been debunked that "cycling as sport" produced any increase in active travel take-up in the long-term ???
Posted 2 days ago # -
officers will hold an open ‘town hall’ meeting in late autumn with active travel, schools, cycling and community organisations to share more information on the opportunities afforded from hosting the Grand Départ.
This will be a call for ideas and initiatives to make best use of the Tour de France being in Edinburgh and to provide a lasting legacy for the city
Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure!
Posted 2 days ago # -
Finance and Resources Committee agreed that the money should be spent in line with the Council’s commitments and aims with regard to net zero...
The same Tour de France that is sponsored by the fossil fuel industry and comes with a large entourage of cars, helicopters, contestants and spectators being flown in and out ... that Tour de France?
How can they possibly be claiming this is in line with "net zero*"?
*whatever that means
Posted 2 days ago #
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