75KMH Speed Limit For Bermuda Day Cycling

The Ministry of Public Works released a road traffic notice for the Bermuda Day Cycling Road Race on Friday [May 26], noting that for the “contestants and to the vehicles attendant on the contestants in the Sinclair Packwood Memorial Bicycle Road Race” the speed limit will be 75 kilometres per hour.

The notice said, “The Minister responsible for works and engineering, in exercise of the power conferred by section 7[2A] of the Road Traffic Act 1947, makes the following Order:

• “1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic [Sinclair Packwood Memorial Bicycle Road Race] [Variation of Speed Limits] Order 2023.

• “2. This Order applies to the contestants and to the vehicles attendant on the contestants in the Sinclair Packwood Memorial Bicycle Road Race to be held on Friday, 26th May 2023.

• “3. The speed limits fixed by section 7[2][a] of the Road Traffic Act 1947 are hereby varied to the extent specified in the first column of the Schedule in respect of the contestants and the vehicles attendant on the contestants in the Sinclair Packwood Memorial Bicycle Road Race.

• “4. The relevant roads or parts thereof specified in the second column of the Schedule are hereby declared to be subject, at the times specified in the third column of the Schedule, in respect of the contestants and the vehicles attendant on the contestants in the Sinclair Packwood Memorial Bicycle Road Race, to the speed limit specified in the first column thereof.

Speed Limit

• 75 kilometres per hour

Roads

• Starting on York Street in St. George’s and heading west towards Ferry Reach on Mullet Bay Road. Continue west along Mullet Bay Road onto the Swing Bridge then onto Kindley Field Road. Travel in a westerly direction along Kindley Field Road to The Causeway, then merge onto North Shore Road to head into Flatt’s. Then heading up Flatt’s Hill to merge onto Middle Road to continue west towards the City of Hamilton. Travel along Cavendish Road onto Reid Street. Continue west on Reid Street, to turn left onto Court Street then right onto Front Street heading west. From Front Street turn right onto Queen Street going north. Then turn right onto Church Street to head east, then turn left onto Cedar Avenue and travel north. Continue north onto Marsh Folly Road, then right onto Dutton Avenue and finishing at Bernard’s Park.

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