Don't Forget - The AMGEN Tour of California is scheduled to go through downtown Davis on Tuesday, February 20.
The AMGEN Tour of California is a professional bicycle stage race. The
world's top professional teams will compete over an eight-day, 700-mile
race on a route that includes the California redwoods, wine country and
the Pacific Coast.
Approximately 128 professional riders are expected to participate in
this year's event. It is also expected that different stages of
the race will be well attended by spectators, as towns similar to Davis
reported a surge of visitors from last year's race. The tour is
approved and will be accompanied by the California Highway Patrol.
The tour riders will enter Davis on Russell Boulevard and will swing
through downtown (B Street, to Second Street, F Street to Covell
Boulevard). The tour then heads north on Pole Line Road to I-5
where it will follow the river into Sacramento and Capitol Park.
The route is tentatively scheduled to go through downtown Davis between 1:52 and 2:20 p.m. (based on average speeds).
The race will only take about eleven minutes to ride through
town. Adding CHP, tour, bike team, and media vehicles before and
following behind the racers, the entire impact on any one intersection
that day should be no more than 15 minutes. The Davis Police
Department will work with the tour organizers to minimize traffic
stoppages and to create detours around the temporary race barricades.
A special "in-tour" sprint is planned for Second Street downtown.
For safety, the Tour organizers have asked that "No Parking" signs be
placed on both sides of Second Street and two blocks of F Street for
Tuesday, February 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The rest of the
route will not require the removal of parked cars. Volunteers
will be utilized to post no parking signs at least 24 hours prior to
the Tour's arrival in town.
Davis volunteers and Amgen tour coordinators will assist the Davis
Police Department as course marshals when the race reaches Davis. The
media will be notified of suggested places to watch the racers.
These locations will include Central Park, Second Street and F Street
downtown. Special signage will be prepared to direct visitors to
Davis to suggested parking locations such as the 4th and G Streets
garage.
This is a great opportunity for downtown retailers and restaurants to
promote their business before, during and after this well-attended
internationally known event! This event received very positive press
last year and is highly regarded in the cycling community.
USE THIS EVENT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE! Join us in promoting this event
and let us know what you are doing for specials and promotions the day
of the event - send to ddba@davis.com and we will post it to the
Davis Downtown Web site - http://www.davisdowntown.com .
The city has set up a page on their Web site and has done outreach to
the bicycling community for those who wish to volunteer as part of the
Davis tour segment at: http://cityofdavis.org/cmo/bikerace.
For more information on the route on the second stage of the tour, go to
http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/Route/stages/stage2.html.
