But while trains have resumed, road conditions in France remain difficult as snow has turned major motorways into ice traps, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said.
Great Britain won seven out of 10 track cycling golds at the London 2012, and on the road Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins won gold in the men's time trial and Lizzie Armitstead won silver in the women's road race.
It fails, for example, to let off the road hogs who make France's roads among the more dangerous in Europe.
Great Britain won seven out of 10 track cycling golds at the London 2012 Olympics, and on the road, Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins won gold in the men's time trial and Lizzie Armitstead won silver in the women's road race.
Just last year, a media car ran Johnny Hoogerland off the road during the Tour de France, sending him headlong into barbed wire.
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And in France a concerted government campaign to promote road safety several years ago cut casualties by about one-fifth within a year, although they have crept up since due to slacker enforcement.
On the theory that a united party of the right will then be matched by a united party of the left, France may therefore now be on the road to a two-party system familiar to voters in countries such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Spain or Germany.
France and Italy promised better safety checks for road tunnels after at least 40 people died when a lorry caught fire in a tunnel under Mont Blanc .
The road regularly features in the Tour de France cycling race.
Wiggins, a four-time Olympic gold medallist and Tour de France winner, and Cavendish, the reigning world road race champion and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, had a magnetic appeal as thousands of spectators turned out at Ipswich Waterfront.
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O'Grady boasts an impressive CV, having won gold in the Commonwealth Games road race in 2002 and led the Tour de France in 1998 and 2001, winning a stage to Grenoble in 1998.
Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn says the work rule and hiring flexibility of the auto maker's recent Spanish labor contract can serve as a road map for its efforts to cut costs in France.
Road blockades sprang up in dozens of locations throughout France, notably near the airport in Marseille, at wholesale markets in Toulouse and Lille, the Tancarville bridge over the river Seine in Normandy, the A7 motorway south of Lyon and the A6 motorway south of Paris - though some of these were later reported to have been dismantled.
"France welcomes the unanimous adoption by Mali's parliament of the road map for the transition, which makes provision for the holding of elections and the opening of negotiations with the north, " the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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France and Germany, which are mostly publicly funded, are increasingly marching down the first road.
The road immediately behind this end of the complex forms the unmarked border between Monaco and France.
The snowstorm also slowed road traffic to a crawl, with snow blocking a number of motorways across northern France including those from Paris to Lille and Paris to Metz.
Erinle left Wasps for Leicester in 2007 but struggled to establish himself at Welford Road and spent time on loan at Championship club Nottingham last year before leaving for France this summer.
Lewis-Francis has already been ruled out of the rest of the indoor season and next month's European Championships in France and will instead turn his attentions to the outdoor season and the first steps on the road to London 2012.
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