Mayor pulls support for Tour of Colorado Springs
The approximate route of the proposed Tour of Colorado Springs bike ride.
Mayor Steve Bach said Wednesday he will not support a proposed 105-mile cycling event called Tour of Colorado Springs this year, raising doubts about whether the event can get off the ground.
“My concern in the present instance is I don’t see a plan. I still haven’t seen a plan,” Bach said during the Mayor’s Counsel Meeting on Wednesday morning.
Read Out There's initial story about the ride.
Organizers said the proposed June 30 event could generate between $2 million and $3 million for the local economy and draw up to 2,000 cyclists to a course that would make a 105-mile loop around Colorado Springs.
“It’s a very interesting idea,” Bach said. “I’m just concerned about we don’t have enough time to make sure it’s well-organized as it should be, that we’ll have reasonable liability risk. We can never have zero liability risk, but reasonable. We just feel we need to take a more strategic approach to this.”
Steve Cox, the mayor’s chief of economic vitality and innovation, said he met with the promoters Wednesday morning.
Read more about what Bach and others had to say about the proposed bike ride at Daniel Chacon's The City Desk blog.
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