{"id":608014,"date":"2026-05-28T06:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608014\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:47:08","slug":"lancashire-tour-de-france-2027-volunteers-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608014\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire Tour De France 2027 volunteers sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Bush, managing director of the 2027 Grand Depart, has said having the Tour De France in Lancashire was &#8220;massive for Lancashire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We think there could be between 10 and 15 million people on the streets of the UK,&#8221; Bush told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002pml1\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Lancashire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire County Council said the economic impact could generate over \u00a315m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The route features a mix of fast sections and demanding climbs, including King of the Mountains ascents in the Trough of Bowland and over Rivington, plus an intermediate sprint to ramp up the pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Townsend, director of highways and transport for Lancashire County Council, said the authority worked with the organisers to develop the route &#8220;to get the best of Lancashire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is one of the world&#8217;s biggest sporting events on our doorstep,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we are at the heart of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The county&#8217;s five climbs make it &#8220;an enormous part of stage two,&#8221; Jon Dutton, chief executive officer of British Cycling, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Bush, managing director of the 2027 Grand Depart, has said having the Tour De France in Lancashire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-608014","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\/608014","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=608014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}