Olympic Games 2030: 300 million euros invested for transport in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Trains, road, cable cars: an envelope of 300 million euros will be devoted to the development and renovation of transport infrastructure in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes as part of the organization of the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the Ministry of Transport announced on Friday. These investments will be financed equally between the State and the region.

An envelope “to host this event in the best possible conditions”, launched the Minister of Transport Philippe Tabarot upon his arrival in the region, but also for the “legacy” of the infrastructures which will remain once the Games have passed.

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The State and the region will finance the envelope

“More than 100 million” euros will be devoted to rail, his office specified, in particular to modernize the TER Grenoble-Veynes line, the fourth “branch” of the “railway star” of Veynes, which also serves Marseille, Briançon and Valence.

This town of 3,200 inhabitants in the Hautes-Alpes department nestled in a valley is at the heart of railway investments for the Winter Games.

In June 2025, the government and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region had already announced a first envelope in the same framework, including 342 million euros for rail, in particular the Marseille-Briançon line.

The “investment protocol” announced on Friday, less than four years before the Games, also aims to make several Savoyard stations accessible: Montmélian, Albertville, Aime-la-Plagne and Bourg-Saint-Maurice.

Railway, roads and ski lifts financed

In this Tarentaise valley, part of the investments will go, on the road side this time, to the national road 90, a route well known to ski resort regulars, regularly congested during peak periods.

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“Several millions” will also be devoted to the construction of “valley elevators” (ski lifts) in Aime-la-Plagne, where the bobsleigh track will be located, from the station, as well as between Bozel and Courchevel.

Gathered in Albertville, in the Olympic hall built for the 1992 games, ministers Philippe Tabarot, Marina Ferrari and the LR president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Fabrice Pannekoucke also signed the “mobility” amendment to the State-region plan contract (CPER), which represents a multi-year investment of 1.4 billion in “everyday mobility”. In the morning, Philippe Tabarot passed through Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport to launch work on the extension of terminal 2.

2 million people expected during the Olympics

Nearly two million people are expected at the time of the Games: they will have to be transported to the various sites in Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Hautes-Alpes and Lyon (in addition to the speed skating events which will take place in the Netherlands). The removal of Nice from the Olympic map has reduced the distances between the furthest points.