THE Time Freight SA Road and Time Trial Champs will be taking place this week, with total road closure in the Highway area on 7,8 and 9 February from 7am to 4pm.
The race will start on the M13 Westbound, 250m after the Blair Athol off ramp. It will continue on the M13 to where the M13 meets the M13 off ramp from the N3.
The cyclists will make a U-turn and head back on the M13, Eastbound, all the way to 45th Cutting. At the 45th Cutting traffic lights, they will make a second U-turn and head on the M13, Westbound, and make their way back to the start/finish in Westville. The entire course for the event is an 18km circuit.
On Friday 7 February events for the tandems mixed, open, U10 to U16 boys and girls, all paraplegic categories for men and women will take place.
On Saturday 8 February men aged between 40 to 79 years old and 80 years and over and women between 30 to 69 years old and 70 years and over will be racing.
On Sunday 9 February the U23 men, elite men and women, junior men and women and men between 30 to 39 years old will take to the road.
Could the Time Trial Cycling event not be held somewhere else? The closure of the M13 on a friday morning is very frustrating, causing major gridlocking on an already busy route. For a silly 18km ride, could the route not have been held in a quieter area?! For this reason alone I am not interested in supporting this.
This was simply a “dumb-ass” idea. How much time and fuel was wasted by people having to wait in bumper to bumper traffic on a Friday morning in an extremely busy suburban area. I just don’t get it !!!. How many people could not get time off work to take part??
Surely there must be areas where so much catastrophe could be avoided. I just wonder who is bribing who???
Not a Metro policeman on site controlling the traffic this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!
The road M13 closure this morning was horrific!!! Surely any fool could foresee what Jan Hofmeyer Rd would be like and cause thousands of litres of expensive petrol to be wasted. Permission for this should never have been granted by the Metro Police My husband took 3 HOURS to take my grandson to Westville Boys’High from Maryvale Rd Dawncliffe and to return. He had our dog with him who was becoming extremely stressed.
Comrades can’t take place on a Saturday because it is a trading day, so how can a cycle race commandeer the main road into Westville for 2 trading days? They must use the old Airport runways next time or inside a stadium. Cyclists don’t pay road licence fees so motorists should come first. Some official did not think this through when the race was approved as their ill thought decision caused a lot of anger and delays.
Mrs Thompson