{"id":563779,"date":"2026-05-03T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563779\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:38:08","slug":"cumbria-tour-de-france-stages-will-have-overridingly-positive-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563779\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumbria Tour de France stages will have &#8216;overridingly positive&#8217; impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We mustn&#8217;t underestimate the amount of people that are going to line the side of the road &#8211; we expect 12 million people will watch the race across the six stages&#8221; Dutton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So lots of planning, lots of communication, inevitably closing the roads, creating a safe environment for the riders will have an impact but we hope that the impact will be overridingly positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It will bring joy, it will bring that economic boost and this is just such a wonderful moment for everyone across the UK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Duddon added everyone was working to make sure the route was safe, which would also improve the roads in the long-term for motorists as well as cyclists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People in Cumbria and further afield have already been given the opportunity to get involved with the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, a competition launched for students enrolled on art, design, graphics, creative and photography courses to design the official poster for the UK stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The competition opens on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We mustn&#8217;t underestimate the amount of people that are going to line the side of the road &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}