To all the grumpy old cynical farts in East London, Le Tour's visit to Londres was a marvellous spectacle, worth every penny. Where else can a million people go and see a major sporting event for free in blazing sunshine on the streets of our fair capital city?
I look forward to the climb at le Côte de Farthing Common later today.
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Staging that bike ride has cost the British £6,800,000. So that's £6.80 per person. If you think the event was so great feel free to send me your £6.80 in the post.
Of the £6,800,000 spent on our behalf by government agencies £3,200,000 came from Transport for London. I think TfL should concentrate on running a tube system that works. Otherwise you could end up with a system where leaving west London on a friday night could take you until 2am(GMT) to get home.
But as long as you enjoyed your 'free' spectacle then that's alright then.
I could play the "it brought tourism into London" card (having met people who came in specially from Holland, France and New Zealand). But I won't.
How much did the advertising for Tour de France encourage tourism out of England to France?
How did they do a cost benefit analysis of the £6.8M they spent. What were the other schemes they looked at and why did they reject them.
What does the English Tourism Council do now Transport for London has taken over their role?
1) £6.8M divided by the number of taxpayers in the country is not £6.80. So if I was to send you any money, it would be considerably less than £6.80.
2) I'm not going to send you any money anyway. Just because you don't use a particular public service you can't claim the money back from those who do use it.
£6.8M /1M =£6.80 which is the cost per person of service received.
Tour de France is not a public service.
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