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Organisers of the Tour de France introduced on Saturday that the route for the Monday, July 3 stage 3 from Amorebieta-Etxano to Bayonne has been modified.
The route will detour round a piece within the last 30 kilometres that contained quite a few “city enhancements” together with site visitors circles, site visitors islands, and velocity bumps.
The so-called ‘street furnishings’ has made street biking in city centres extra harmful, with site visitors calming measures designed to gradual autos down resulting in crashes.
The announcement didn’t explicitly state that the change was a part of the UCI’s new SafeR venture that’s geared toward bettering security for males’s and ladies’s street races.
That initiative was rolled out following the tragic demise of Swiss rider Gino Mäder through the Tour de Suisse.
CPA president Adam Hansen has been actively partaking with the Tour de France organisers ASO, efficiently negotiating added signalling and padding on limitations on the downhill finishes of phases 14 and 17.
The change comes after Saint-Pée-Sur-Nivelle at kilometre 162.4 and provides 6.1 kilometres to the stage. The space is now 193.5km as an alternative of 187.4 km.
Reasonably than head from Saint-Pée-Sur-Nivelle on route D3 the race will as an alternative journey on the extra main route D918 till Souraïd, the place the riders will head towards Bayonne on route D88.
The detour provides a visit by means of Ustaritz earlier than riders choose up the beforehand deliberate stage 3 route for the run-in to Bayonne.
The profile of the ultimate 31.1km is altered solely barely, with two back-to-back uncategorized minor climbs earlier than and after Souraïde somewhat than a single extra sustained ascent.