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"There seems to be no easy way to please everyone,either at Carnac or Stonehenge,but one thing is certain--neither can take a stream of a million visitors each year without protection."
What follows is a few years out of date, but...
We were there just after the plans for the redevelopment had been firmed up, and opinions were split even within the local community. There were protest posters up on many of the fences, but heading towards town and chatting over the inevitable cup of cider or two, most people accepted that something had to be done. The problem of soil erosion had, a few years ago, got out of hand (over a metre and a half in places) - and whether it's true or not the opinion of the locals seemed to be that it was townie yobs driving their cars (!) around the stones.
So, virtually the whole alignment was fenced into several areas, with different erosion strategies being tested in each. The fencing was really unsightly, but the plans as published then included building a new road, grassing the existing one that runs by the alignment and using electric buggies to take people close to the stones - does this sound familiar? Not, as you'd expect, universally popular, but acknowledged by many to be better than what they had.
"I don't know if they have any similar schemes at Carnac..."
At that time, something similar, and again part of the erosion research. The fenced area nearest the museum was opened for several pre-booked tours each day, although in English at least this wasn't well publicised. There was one tour in English each day - you had to take the tour in order to get a few minutes free time to wander amongst the stones. Part of the scheme was to assess how many visitors of foot could be sustained without erosion problems. Not ideal, but worthwhile: given the lamentable state the ground had got into, it looked to me as if they were doing their best.
We intend going back this autumn, so any more up-to-date information would be welcomed.
regards
Andy A
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road