Wide-ranging Development

In using the Lake Geneva – Mediterranean Sea cycle route as the main artery for its cycling network, Haute-Savoie has designed its département-wide plan for Greenways cycle routes like the many other routes serving populated areas in considering factors such as commutes and nearby leisure activities.

However, this scheme was also considered as a means for developing tourism in the territories that the routes cross, and even to attract those who come into the area for better-known tourist locations, such as the shores of Lake Geneva or Mont-Blanc.

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The General Council is adapting the departmental road network and making it safer for cyclists.

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The Greenways cycle routes currently being created in the Vallée de l’Arve is the Lake Geneva – Mont-Blanc cycle route and along Lake Geneva is the Southern Shore Lake Geneva cycle route. These two cycle routes will serve well-known tourist areas such as the Haute Vallée de l’Arve with a route leading to Sallanches-Passy opposite Mont-Blanc, as well as the southern shore of Lake Geneva featuring the medieval villages of Yvoire and Nernier, and the beaches at Excenevex and Thonon les Bains.

These projects are based in the largest valleys in the département and make up the framework for all Haute-Savoie, allowing municipalities to introduce their own cycle routes so as to eventually create a network throughout the area.

Plan departemental Haute - Savoie Velo Voies Vertes.pdf
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The “Sillon Alpin” and “Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean Sea” cycle routes are included in the Regional plan for Greenways cycle routes.

Schema Regional des Veloroutes Voies Vertes.pdf
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The Lake Geneva – Mediterranean Sea cycle route is included in the Regional plan for Greenways cycle routes.

Schema National des Veloroutes Voies Vertes.pdf
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The Lake Geneva – Mediterranean Sea cycle route is included in the Regional plan for Greenways cycle routes.

Wide-ranging Safety

As part of its multi-year plan, the General Council is developing the departmental road network and is making it safer for cyclists through new construction and maintenance.

The General Council develops the departmental road network and makes it safer.

Works completed, trails and cycle lanes: Aravis paths, Epagny/Sillingy connection, Bassy bridge/Châtel bridge connection, Moussy/Pers-Jussy connection, Plaine d’Ale