Emergency work is underway on an endangered structure between Fontan and Saint-Dalmas-de-Tende.

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  • Work is progressing in the Vésubie valley.

    Vésubia Moutain Park will reopen on June 21 and four wolves will return to Parc Alpha this summer.

  • Despite continuous help for six months from volunteers in associations, "the inhabitants still need help", believes the president of "Solidarity weekends", Gil Marsalla.

  • More than 1,100 km of hiking trails were damaged.

    Priority is given to restoring the GR, access to mountain huts and securing family hikes for this popular activity during the summer season.

At the beginning of October 2020, storm Alex devastated part of the territory of the Alpes-Maritimes.

The departmental council estimates at more than a billion the amount to rebuild everything.

This Friday, in an open letter to Emmanuel Macron, the elected officials of the department criticized the state for delaying the release of the “hundreds of millions of euros” promised by the president when he came to the scene ten days after the disaster .

Six months later,

20 Minutes

takes stock of what remains to be done.

The roads are on track

The Alpes-Maritimes department has specified its work schedule in the various valleys.

In Roya, the road between Breil and the Italian border should be completely rebuilt at the end of April.

The Perthus bridge will be permanently accessible for July.

Those of Ambo and Cairos will be delivered in mid-2022.

In Vésubie, the Vésubia Moutain Park will reopen on June 21 and four wolves will be able to reintroduce the Alpha Park this summer.

In Roquebillière, the reconstruction of the lake is scheduled for summer 2022. On the metropolitan side, the last operation concerning the roads in the Var valley ends this Friday.

In the Tinée, eight of the fourteen sites have been delivered.

For the Tournefort road, part of which had been destroyed, six of the thirteen operations are nearing completion, five have been completed and two are due to start at the end of the month.

The train line, late

Originally, Nice-Tende was to reopen on January 18.

It will ultimately be, "a resumption of traffic by early May," indicates SNCF Réseau.

But first at low speed on the arched wall to observe the behavior of the structure ”.

In Saint-Dalmas-de-Tende, the track reinforcement work “will be completed within a month”.

In June, work on the Paganin tunnel will begin to lift the speed limit.

In Viévola, the reconstruction of the embankment is scheduled for the second half of 2021. SNCF Réseau specifies that the reconstruction and maintenance work "will remain to be carried out for the next three years".

Locals still need help

Since the disaster, volunteers from the “Solidarity Weekends” have been going to the valleys every Saturday to help the victims.

“We must continue,” says Gil Marsalla, president of the association.

We have more and more requests.

We went from one site per week to three.

It will last for years.

He recalls that Tende "lost 400 inhabitants".

“People are waiting for businesses to reopen to regain some semblance of normal life.

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More than 1,100 km of trails affected

The Departmental Council has announced the deployment of reinforcements to rehabilitate the 1,100 km of damaged trails.

Priority is given to restoring the GR, access to mountain huts and securing family hikes.

An update of operations in real time is planned on the Randoxygene site.

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Roads reopened in Vésubie, Haute-Roya still inaccessible by car

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The train back to Haute-Roya to open up this ravaged valley

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