 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sad for them, but probably speaks to the changed economic environment post-Covid.
As discussed on the previous thread, I wonder what effect this will have on the similar planned valley link to St Gervais. At one level, it may make the funders worry about the economic viability if Funiflaine failed on that basis - but at another there is now only one valley project so less competition and this one runs from the existing rail station without modification plus politically it is all within a single commune.
I guess we will see, supposedly the St Gervais project is meant to start breaking ground later this year.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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That's a bummer. It looked too good to be true.
I still think it would have been a net positive. Anything to keep traffic off narrow mountain roads is a good thing. The losers will be locals who work up on the mountain.
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@Pasigal, it would be interesting to know what was behind the decision.
If I remember right from the maps, it would only be of real use to day skiers - it ended up at the top of a piste rather than connecting into Flaine itself. It wouldn't substitute for people needing road transport to stay in the resort. I don't know how useful it would be for summer visitors, whether it would open up a sufficient range of walks etc.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@j b, You may be right. I recall reading a lot about it last year, including some of the background materials, and I thought one of the main beneficiaries would be day workers who could park at the base (and day skiers, of course). But it's moot now, unfortunately. We are often in the Arve/Aravis areas, and I know we would have used it from time to time.
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@Pasigal, that could be where St Gervais has the edge. The proposed lift doesn't take you anywhere any actual skiing, just to the next gondola up. But that gives access to the main town from the railway station - town is just across the bridge, but a lot of holiday apartments are right there near the gondola station - and will supposedly be operational all year.
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