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La Tania to Meribel Village D98 Road Closure – 01 June to 31 October 2015
The D98 La Tania to Meribel Village road is scheduled to close today (01 June 2015) until 31 October 2015 in a similar repeat of last Summer’s closure as rebuilding of the road takes place. Last year the closure was from 7 July and opened a little earlier than scheduled around the middle of October.
The road has continually required on-going maintenance for years as it gradually subsides and loses its battle to cling on to the side of the mountain. We hear that part of the new road will be moved away from the mountainside to allow rock slide debris to fall past and underneath it – in effect a bridge away from the hill. All in all quite a serious bit of construction work.
Last Summer (when these pics were taken) there was no access through for walkers or mountain bikers for most of the time the road was closed – there were large fences and plenty of explosive about too! The diversion to Meribel Village and/or Le Plantin is via Brides Les Bains and adds about 50 minutes on to the journey.
Thanks to Ferg at Ski Deep for the pics.
[…] Village road – this is the view from the Méribel side. This is the second year of the La Tania to Méribel Summer Road Closure and is planned for next year too – although we hear a rumour that it may not be all Summer […]