We've put together this overview to give an idea of what is involved when L’Etape comes to our region.

Maps showing the full detail of the road closures happening on the date are available https://letapeaustralia.com/community/.

“Keep in mind these are the timings we can 100 per cent guarantee,” says the event's organiser, Florent Malézieux.

“At past events we have always reopened the roads 20-25 minutes earlier.”

Manning St (north from Barney St) and Blowhole Point Road will be closed as a marshalling area from 4am-8.30am.

The block between Farmer Street and Barney Street, where the Start and Finish arch will be erected, will be closed 1am-5pm, with a managed crossing point at Barney St throughout the day.

With 3000 returning riders coming down from Saddleback between 10.30am and just after 3pm, Manning St, the lower leg of Saddleback Mountain Road and the first section of South Kiama Drive, will be closed from 4am-5pm (with controlled access from Hillview Circuit). The section between Mark Street and the Highway will be closed from 4-9am.

On the Kiama Bends, the southbound lane will be closed to traffic from 4-10.30am, with a contraflow system set up on the northbound lane to take traffic from both ways during this time.

“The riders will be using the shoulder and the left hand lane, with the right hand lane as a buffer for emergency vehicles,” says Mr Malézieux.

Gerringong and Gerroa will see the main road closed from 5-9.30am.

“The infrastructure on most of the route will be quite light, and easy to set up and remove,” he says.

The exception to this in our area is Jamberoo Mountain Road, which will bring the pack down for the final leg.

Riders will be coming down the newly restored road between 9-2pm.

“A lot of equipment needs to be set up and taken down, and a lot of personnel will be there, because of the very steep descent, to guarantee the safety of the riders,” says Mr Malézieux.

That road will be closed from 7am-5pm on the day.

Jamberoo’s Allowrie Street and Churchill Street will also be closed during that time, although there will be managed two way access on the western lane of Churchill St.

Fountaindale Road and Saddleback Mountain Rd, to The Pines, will be closed from 8.30am-5pm.