This news seems to have passed all of the traffic info sites I find on Goggle but the French road section between Pas de Casa - Sorry about my terrible French! - and France proper has been closed since the end of April.
It's due to the mountainside encroaching into the road by up to six inches a day - a sort of slow motion landslide - and no-one knows exactly why or what the future holds, so don't expect a fix any time soon.
I only learned about this as it blocks access from a friend of mine who live near Ax-les-Thermes from whence he drives is small collection of gas guzzlers up to Andorra for fuel.
This article, in Catalan, features some intrepid French people slogging up the road on foot to load up on cheap booze and fags - makes the English Channel booze-cruisers look like the sad bastards that they really are - mind you as the TV version points out that with a carton of smokes costing €80 in France being just €30 in Andorra you can't really blame them! It also points out that despite having only 3,000 inhabitants Pas de Casa earns 30% of Andorra's GDP! All in booze and fags!!!
[video]www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies-vespre/el-pas-de-la-casa-un-poble-fantasma-des-del-tall-de-la-frontera-francoandorrana/video/5853399/[/video]
Enjoy
Simon
It's due to the mountainside encroaching into the road by up to six inches a day - a sort of slow motion landslide - and no-one knows exactly why or what the future holds, so don't expect a fix any time soon.
I only learned about this as it blocks access from a friend of mine who live near Ax-les-Thermes from whence he drives is small collection of gas guzzlers up to Andorra for fuel.
This article, in Catalan, features some intrepid French people slogging up the road on foot to load up on cheap booze and fags - makes the English Channel booze-cruisers look like the sad bastards that they really are - mind you as the TV version points out that with a carton of smokes costing €80 in France being just €30 in Andorra you can't really blame them! It also points out that despite having only 3,000 inhabitants Pas de Casa earns 30% of Andorra's GDP! All in booze and fags!!!
[video]www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies-vespre/el-pas-de-la-casa-un-poble-fantasma-des-del-tall-de-la-frontera-francoandorrana/video/5853399/[/video]
Enjoy
Simon