UTRECHT, Netherlands -- Dutch police say they still plan to protest for better working conditions at the Tour de France this weekend, but will not stop riders as they cross a bridge in Rotterdam.
Police unions and Dutch authorities reached a deal Thursday to halt police plans to carry out a symbolic traffic control on Rotterdam's landmark Erasmus Bridge during Sunday's stage of the cycle race from Utrecht to the southern province of Zeeland.
Unions say in a statement that Rotterdam municipality has given them permission to protest in the city, but "there will not be a traffic control" of the convoy of advertising trucks that precedes the peloton.
The three-week Tour starts on July 4 with an individual time trial in Utrecht, and passes through Rotterdam the following day.
