mjr
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- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Haters gonna hate. Surrey never seems to have got behind the event properly, making it difficult for riders and spectators to visit, so I expect London has had most of the tourism income. It'll still be a bit of a shame if Surrey wants to shoot on a bit of its Olympic legacy - the only bit with Surrey in the official name, isn't it?I do wonder whether closed road events may make cyclist haters hate cyclists all the more. Or perhaps haters are just gonna hate.
If they do reject it, I expect the organisers will invite the other home counties to bid for it, but can you really see any of them except Kent (probably involving the Gravesend Cyclopark) effectively inviting more cycling there? Herts and especially Essex county councils are notoriously hostile to cycling (political opposition, tiny budgets), Berkshire is fragmented into unitary districts which probably won't pull a bid together and I'm not sure Buckinghamshire will dare upset that many of the rich Chilterns residents already grumpy about HS2. Am I wrong?