The first of a series of public information stands for the Wollongong 2022 UCI Road World Championships was held on Thursday, attracting residents from central suburbs who wanted to know more about how the event would affect them.
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For Corrimal Street resident Louis Parnis, who just happened to be going past the Market Square stand on his daily walk, it provided the chance to see how he might be able to connect with the cycling team from his home country, Malta.
"I'm the Maltese club president, so I'm going to try to contact Maltese cycling for the race," he said.
"I got a lot of information today, and I'm hoping to be able to invite the cyclists over for a Maltese beer or something like that, as kind of an ambassador."
Other residents used the information stand as a chance to pore over nitty-gritty road information, as they battled ongoing confusing about how the city will operate during the event.
A women from Mount Ousley, who lives on the race route, said she remained in the dark about how to get around and was trying to piece together contradictory information in letterbox flyers and online.
"How can you get excited when there's no information," she said.
"We've had flyers in our mailbox a couple of days ago, but to me that was absolutely useless, it told me nothing.
"If you know what's happening then you can plan things."
Information stand times:
- Diggies, August 19, 8-10am
- Wollongong Central, August 20, 10am-1pm
- WIN Stadium (Gate A), August 21, 11.30am-2pm
- Master Builders, August 22, 3-5pm
- Cleaver & Co Meats, Gwynneville, August 24, 8-9.30am
- Gipps Rd, August 25, 2.30-4.30pm
- City Beach Function Centre, August 26, 8.30-10.30am
- Squires Way & Elliotts Rd, August 31, 2.30-4.30pm
- Robert Cram Park, Cabbage Tree Lane, September 5, 2.30-4.30pm
- Gaynor Ave & Dumfries Ave, September 6, 2.30-4.30pm
- North Wollongong Station, September 8, 7-9am
Kate McIlwain
For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.
For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.
