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Organisers of the Tour de France announced on Saturday that the route for the Monday, July 3 stage 3 from Amorebieta-Etxano to Bayonne has beꦿ𒁃en changed.

The route will detour around a section in the final 30 kil🌺ometres that contained numerous "urban improvements" including traffic circles, tra🥀ffic islands, and speed bumps.

The so-called 'road furniture' has made road cycling in urban centres more dangerous, with traffic calming measures de𝔍signed to slow vehicles down leading to cras🦩hes.

The announcement did not explicitly state that the change was part of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI's new SafeR project that is aimed at improving 🅷safety for me💙n's and women's road races.

That initiative was rolled out following the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:tragi꧙c death of🧸 Swiss rider Gino Mäder during the Tour de Suisse.

CPA president Adam Hansen has been actively engaging with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France organis🐽ers ASO, successfully negotiating added signalling and padding on barriers on the downhill finish༺es of stages 14 and 17.

The change comes after Saint-Pée-Su𒉰r-Nivelle at kilometre 162.4 and adds 6.1 kilometres to the stage. The distance is now 193.5km instead of 187.4 km.

Rather than head🅘 from Saint-Pée-Sur-Nivelle on route D3 the race will instead travel on the more major route D918 until Souraïd, where the riders will head toward Bayonne on route D88.

The detour adds a trip through Ustaritz before riders pick up the previously planned stage 3 route for the run-in toܫ Bayonne.

The profile of the final 31.1km is altered only slightly, with two back-to-back uncategorized minor climbs before and after Souraïde rather than ♑a single more sustainedꦇ ascent.