America’s most popular cycling event, the Amgen Tour of California, has selected the City of Claremont as the starting point for its grueling mountain Stage 7, which will occur on Saturday, May 21, 2011.
The eight-day stage race from May 15-22, 2011, is considered the most important cycling race held in the United States, and draws many of the world’s top professional cycling teams from RadioShack to HTC Columbia.
The Traffic and Transportation Commission will review road closures for the Amgen Tour of California on May 21, 2011 and the mass participation ride on May 7, 2011 at their Monday, December 13, 2010 meeting.
Specific event details are still in the preliminary planning stages, but both events will take place in and around the Claremont Village and then head north through Claremont. The preliminary route for the race encompasses several streets within the Village area, along with College Avenue from First Street to Foothill Boulevard, Foothill Boulevard (College to Mills), Mills Avenue (Foothill to Mt. Baldy), and Mt. Baldy Road (Mills Avenue past the easterly city limit). Several street closures will be required during this event, both short-term (lasting approximately one to two hours), to those in the Village area which may last up to 24-hours.
In an effort to provide as much advanced notice to Village merchants and property owners affected by this race route, the street closure permits will be considered by the Claremont Traffic and Transportation Commission at a special meeting on Monday, December 13, 2010 at 7 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber, 225 W. Second Street, Claremont.
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