GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The series of roadworks between Martigny and Sierre in canton Valais, started this summer, are nearing completion and should be finished before the start of the ski season, reports local newspaper Le Nouvelliste in Sion.
Sion is the capital of Valais, home to a large number of Switzerland’s ski areas.
Two bridges over the autoroute in Sion have been brought up to recent safety standards, a new roundabout near the hospital at the Sion-West exit goes into operation 3 October and another on the north side of the autoroute in the same area opens 31 October: the two roundabouts are designed to improve traffic flow around the Sion-West exits and entrances where rush hour traffic jams are a regular thing.
The Conthey-Sion exits and entrances and lanes between will be operating normally as of 4 October, also designed to improve traffic flows.