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Sean Newsom, ski editor of the Sunday Times, is fed up with driving around Lake Annecy to get to ski resorts. Here's his solution:
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| I've given up driving round the lake. I wish the French authorities would see sense and put a socking great flyover across it. Yes it would spoil the view, but that's long been wrecked by overdevelopment, and it would get rid of all the wiggling on suburban roads on the lakeside...Plus you would fill the Tarentaise up with happy Brits - and the French would love that, wouldn't they? |
Source: http://www.welove2ski.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=632&id=138&last=0 [6th post down]
Is he right? What's the solution for access to the Tarentaise, to combine skier satisfaction with environmental protection?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I love the drive around the lake, especially in the spring. It's beautiful and inspiring.
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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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There is a perfectly good motorway link via Chamberey which is about 10/20 mins longer when compared to sitting in the jams along the lake.
Well done for spotting that David, I thought that forum had gone the way of Mysnosports.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Tue 19-05-09 9:35; edited 1 time in total
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Yes, it's beautiful, but it's also very frustrating when caught in long jams at holiday times and weekends.
I heard some years ago that the French authorities are not too keen to improve the road links via Annecy from Geneva, as they would prefer people to use Lyon airport.
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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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Boredsurfing, I think drive times from GVA to the Tarentaise are more or less the same via Annecy or Chambery. Not much more than 5 minutes either way, assuming normal traffic levels on both routes.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| I love the drive around the lake, especially in the spring. It's beautiful and inspiring. |
Me too. Maybe SN had a hangover when he posted that.
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Idiot Newspaper Editor.
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Tue 19-05-09 9:59; edited 1 time in total
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Giles from www.cgski.co.uk swears by going via Annecy but always goes around the 'other side' of the lake. I personally dislike the 'other side' route because of all the speed humps and varying speed limit signs.
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Lake annecy is beautiful, it's the best part of the journey between gva and the tarantaise, building a flyover so people can get to resort quicker sounds like a stupid witless right wing clarksonism and should not be taken seriously at all. What about all the lake and mountain sports in summer being ruined by a massive concrete monster.
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I love that route, but as the wife of one, and mother of another, thrower-upper, I'm sure some people would prefer a direct road rather than the winding "wiggling" ones
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Good grief. Some people really do want to be spoon-fed mountain access, don't they? They'll be wanting 8-lane access direct to their hotels, next. Long may winding wiggling roads continue. They are more picturesque - and help keep the crowds down to those prepared to endure the journey.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I'd definitely have preferred a straighter road for the Lardybus on the way back from the EoSB after turning a rather nice shade of green mid-journey, which is ironic as it was the green (genepi) that I mostly blame for my condition that morning. Even so I'd rather suffer than have anyone ruin that lake.
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| Bigpantsjayke wrote: |
| sounds like a stupid witless right wing |
Major projects are anything but right wing. 
I think it would be fair to say that SN was 'talking' out of an orifice other than his mouth when he pitched that piece...
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Similarly, no doubt the Highland Authority in Scotland is preparing to spoil the lovely (and winding) road up the North half of Loch Lomond to make it faster.
These people seem to have no conception that they are spoiling what people are coming to see.
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Poster: A snowHead
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snowball, I don't think SN means it. Just a sensational line to draw attention to his website.
The best way to avoid any French road issues is to ski in Austria
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Actually, this is the line Sean's using to draw attention to his website (on the home page):
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| I keep thinking of Gordon Brown's hand slipping limply into my trouser pocket, looking for my wallet... |
What a ghastly thought, but I thought that was Darling's job. Maybe he should trap the groping hand of government in his heated trouser press. The theme here, by the way, is airport taxes and his hatred of Terminal 5. He continues ...
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| The last time I was at T5 was when we had the 'worst snow since the Ice Age' or whatever it was...It was a good 36 hours since the snow fell, four flights were cancelled in a row and I remember a hearing a poor American on the phone, amidst the scrum, begging his travel agent "to just get me out of the UK". |
So, the message here is that Sean skis at his personal expense - not that of the Sunday Times' - and flying is too expensive.
Are airport taxes really that expensive?
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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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David Goldsmith,
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Are airport taxes really that expensive?
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Buying or selling 
BAA are appealing the instruction to sell Gatwick Edinburgh/Glasgow
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FAQ
I've often thought the road down to the valley from La Ros should be a straight line, right into the lake for those that overshoot 