The stage of the Cycling Tour to Spain 2023 through Cantabria will pass through fourteen municipalities of the Autonomous Community and will force to cut three links of the A-67 and A-8 motorways and different regional roads along the route that the cyclists will carry out on September 12.
The stage, number 16 of the race, will have a route of 119.7 kilometers and will travel through the municipalities of Piélagos, Polanco, Torrelavega, Reocín, Santillana del Mar, Suances, Alfoz de Lloredo, Ruiloba, Comillas, Valdáliga, San Vicente de la Barquera, Val de San Vicente, Peñamellera Baja (Asturias), Peñarrubia and Cillorigo de Liébana, to culminate in a second category port (529 meters).
The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has chaired the Security Board prior to the celebration of La Vuelta in the Autonomous Community and has thanked “the involvement and the great work” of all administrations and agencies so that “every year everything goes well during the speech of La Vuelta for our Autonomous Community”.
The meeting, held semi-face-to-face, was attended by the technical directors of La Vuelta, Fernando Escartín and Gonzalo Alonso; the provincial head of Traffic, José Miguel Tolosa; the chief commander of the Traffic Sector of the Civil Guard, Rubén Flores; and representatives of the State Road Demarcation and the departments of Roads, Transport, Sports, Interior and Health of the Government of Cantabria, among others.
Likewise, representatives of the National Police and the Civil Guard and the municipalities through which the route of the La Vuelta stage will pass have taken part in the Security Board.
In the meeting, the traffic management that will have to be carried out on the day of celebration of the stage has been addressed.
In the course of La Vuelta through the region, three links will have to be cut with the A-8 and A-67 motorways.
Specifically, in the stage of September 12, the links of Boo de Piélagos (pk 195), and of Requejada-Polanco (pk 187) will be affected in the A-67 and in the A-8 the link of Unquera-Potes (pk 272), in both directions of the circulation.
The cuts in these links will be duly signaled both in the panels of the motorways and in different mobile panels that, will be managed by the DGT and the Civil Guard.
The end of the stage in the town of Bejes will force the cut of the national road N-621 along the Hermida Gorge during the central hours of the day, from 2.30 p.m. to the eviction of the cycling caravan, around one and a half hours after the end of the stage