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Originally Posted by Turkle
However, regarding blocking the roads. In my experience, there is no "good" day to do this, people really do lose their minds over not being able to use a street for 1 day out of the year. It doesn't matter how much community outreach you do, or what mitigation plans you put in place. People will absolutely HOWL if they can't drive their car when/where they want at all times. If it's not harvest season, it's the school year, or it's church day, or whatever. So I'm very much inclined to ignore those complaints.
Drivers, man.
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I dunno, come out to rural Va. Its not like you can move your car a block over. If your road is closed for the day, you're not moving. And an event like SBT has folks strung out for hours, so the road is likely literally closed for most of the day.
And for those that argue "economic benefit" the outlying farmers, many miles away from the start, receive NO benefit at all from the event.
I do get that the roads are "public" but this is stretching it a bit.
Would it be ok if the cyclists didn't behave like entitled buffoons? Likely better for sure.