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The London to Surrey Cycle Classic

11/10/2011
The London to Surrey Cycle Classic The London – Surrey Cycle Classic took place on Sunday 14th August. It was a challenging 140km road race starting and ending on The Mall and travelling to Box Hill in Surrey as part of the ‘London Prepares’ series of events, trialling Olympic venues and routes just under a year before the games begin at the end of what had been a challenging week for the city. It was key in learning lessons and trialling the route for the games, including carriageway works and traffic management. Ringway Jacobs are pleased to have been a central part of the infrastructure, both in the planning of the route and the delivery of works.

In the months leading up to the event, six traffic islands were removed and replaced with temporary, bolt-down structures that could be easily and quickly removed on the day. This programme of works was important in removing obstacles from the course to allow the race to happen as safely as possible. Three gangs were deployed to remove and replace the islands before and after the race.


One island, on Constitution Hill, was unable to be removed due to its significance as part of a war memorial; a temporary ramp and road surface was put in place instead, with the surface restored quickly after the race. ‘A great piece of work in challenging circumstances! Please pass on our thanks to the crew,’ said Gary MacGowan, Head of Road Events for the Surface Transport Games Team.


Ringway Jacobs also provided four Incident Response Units along the course, on standby to attend to any unforeseen incidents along the route and were involved in the planning and implementation of traffic management on the day. Over 300 roads were affected in the three central boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Wandsworth alone.


Gary MacGowan said ‘We have all just played our parts in delivering London’s largest ever sporting road event with extremely short timescales for planning and preparation…This event also tested our flexible and resourceful approaches to resolving challenges, but most importantly I feel it demonstrated that our teams are the best and the most capable teams for delivering the 2012 Road Events.’

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