Factfile
Published: 13:57, 22 June 2007
- To clear the route for the Tour more than 150 miles of Kent roads will be closed to traffic and 1,300 junctions will be sealed off.
- Kent Highways will be using 10,000 cones, 8,000 signs, 3,000 hay bales and erecting almost 40 miles of barriers.
- In March Kent County Council sent out more than 300,000 letters to residents in the postcode areas along the race route and has since distributed more than 200,000 route leaflets and erected more than 10,000 posters.
- The people living along the route can expect further alerts about the road closures during the final days of the lead-up to the race.
- More than 1,500 marshals, stewards and volunteers will be assisting with crowd management with 100 buses and coaches being used to transport them across the county.
- Up to 250 special radio handsets will be distributed to route marshals to ensure communication channels stay open in the event that the sheer volume of mobile phone calls being made in the county on the day exceed the capacity of the mobile phone network.
