This year's Tour of Britain covered 746 miles over eight days in September and featured eight stages, covering parts of Scotland, northern England, the south west and finally London. This required closing roads on a busy Saturday afternoon, managing the thousands of people who turned up to watch and keeping an eye on multiple places where people could cross the course.
In all, AP supplied around 200 staff, who were deployed throughout the night with bulk coming in for a 6am start on the Saturday. The route was divided up into six sectors, each having a sector supervisor. Beneath the supervisor, staff were deployed on road closures, as route marshals and at crossing points.
AP staff also manned the event control hub, where all the stewarding, road closures and traffic decisions were fed back to.
(Jim Evans)
