Bozel to Courchevel Gondola enters further consultation / tender phase

Latest from the Bozel Marie on the planned gondola from Bozel to Courchevel 1550 (with a mid-station at St Bon). This has been talked about for at least 20 years but finally appears to be happening – the benefit of a reduction in private car traffic up to Courchevel seen as a big plus point and a further reason to start this development ASAP.

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Bozel-Courchevel: Thanks to close collaboration with our partners, the Municipality of Courchevel and the department, the valley link project enters into the consultation phase.
This step is decisive, the responses to the call for tenders will bring us a
lighting on the financial costs of investment and operation.
More than ever, moving forward in time, the environmental role of this device
seems obvious.
Traffic and parking problems become unmanageable.
Recent studies commissioned by the municipality have demonstrated and quantified
unbearable flow of vehicles for our municipalities and their environment.
Today, because of its impressive recruitment pool, Courchevel employs 3,450
people at the height of the season, of whom nearly 1,150 take the
D91a between Le Carrey and the resort. As for Bozel, 600 people go there every morning to go to their place of work.
Added to this is the tourist flow estimated at 5,000 vehicles/day. stream that can
double during peak times.
Faced with this increase in road traffic and the resulting nuisances,
the municipalities of Courchevel and Bozel elected in 2020, have decided to continue and
accelerating their collaboration on the project for a teleport link linking the municipalities.

Approved and supported by the SCOT (Territorial Coherence Scheme),
the valley lift project has been the subject of studies necessary for its
achievement for carbon-free mobility.
A command group made up of the municipalities of Bozel,
Courchevel and the Department financed the feasibility studies and
drafts a Public Service Delegation agreement in order to find
an operator capable of carrying out and operating the valley lift between
Bozel and Courchevel Village via St Bon.

The route finally adopted is as follows:
Departure station (G1): Les Moulins (next to the EDF power station).
Intermediate station (G2): St Bon.
Arrival (G3): Courchevel Village (1550).
The first estimates of the cost of the project are between €15 and €17 million.

The municipalities will receive 30% aid from the Region and are working on the eligibility of the project with other entities.
national and international: Department, State (recovery fund) and Europe (ERDF European Development Fund
Regional). Such an achievement is not without improvements in our municipality.
The SCOT requires us to create a minimum of 250 parking spaces, it also unlocks 2 areas to be developed.
In order to limit traffic in the centre, parking is provided at Près de la Chèvre located opposite the departure station at
which will be accessed by a footbridge.
The return of the call for tenders will allow us to set the bases for the financing of this ambitious and virtuous project and to set the
financial commitments acceptable to the municipality. that is why we are working with great energy on aid
financial requirements that we request and on the optimization of the technical characteristics of the device.
To be continued