FRANCE | Urban Transport Compilation

[Trisuno]

Originally Posted by kub86

I forgot where I found this picture, but I think lyon has the coolest looking light rail. When I visited, I never saw the silver ones though.

After the Silver one, what do you think of the Gold one?
( to celebrate the 1000th Alstom Citadis)


www.lyon-en-lignes.org

[Augusto]

Originally Posted by staff

Which tram systems in France have underground sections with underground stations, apart from Strasbourg (one station)?

As thib8500 mentioned there are underground stations in Rouen, one in Marseille (Noailles), one in Lille (under the main rail station) and one in Paris (La Défense).

[disturbman]

As for la Défense, is the station really underground or just under the "dalle" (fake concret ground rising way above the real ground) ?

[GENIUS LOCI]

Originally Posted by Minato ku

Other pictures of Marseille metro.

Bougainville M2

Is that the stretch running in the middle of a motorway?

[GENIUS LOCI]

Originally Posted by disturbman

As for la Défense, is the station really underground or just under the "dalle" (fake concret ground rising way above the real ground) ?

I don't know exactly any cases, but I think la Defense is a 'special' case just 'cause ther is a pedestrian platform which 'cover' all the district... I don't see in other places a good reason to do the same

[TipNTop]

There's a "pedestrian platform which cover the disctrict" here, too:

Lyon Perrache:

[staff]

Originally Posted by Augusto

As thib8500 mentioned there are underground stations in Rouen, one in Marseille (Noailles), one in Lille (under the main rail station) and one in Paris (La Défense).

Thanks!

[Bitxofo]

Originally Posted by Trisuno

After the Silver one, what do you think of the Gold one?
( to celebrate the 1000th Alstom Citadis)


www.lyon-en-lignes.org

I love it too!

[Falubaz]

That's the ugliest front ever! hahah
I like more the Strasbourg one!

[disturbman]

Just wait to see the new front of Paris' Tram line 2...

[GENIUS LOCI]

Does anyone got pics of new Nice tram web?

[Falubaz]

Originally Posted by disturbman

Just wait to see the new front of Paris' Tram line 2...

Can there be anything worse than the Lyon's duck-tram? I hope no! Come on, the Paris's trams look quite nice... they shouldnt screw it up!

[steph35]

RENNES Metro

VAL System (Véhicule automatique léger) as in Lille and Toulouse

Line A :
opened in 2002
9.4km
15 stations
~120,000 passengers per day. 40millions passengers in 2007.





Henri Fréville station


view from La Poterie south east station





Projects approuved (should be completed in 2018)

extension of the line A : 3.4 km to the south east in the city of Chantepie

A new line B : ~13km from north-east to south west ; 15 stations

New line and extension are in yellow on this map

[disturbman]

Originally Posted by Falubaz

Can there be anything worse than the Lyon's duck-tram? I hope no! Come on, the Paris's trams look quite nice... they shouldnt screw it up!

They just did. Paris's new boat-tram front just look worst (as a matter of fact I kind of like Lyon's design). But it was redisgn for safety reason, too bad. I liked it better before.

You can see some pictures here, at pages 3 and 5.

[Falubaz]

OMG!




This is a joke right?
But it's not the 1st april. Wtf?


As for Rennes: let us see more pictures!

[Plaistow]

Whether you like individual trams or not, what can't be argued is that most (if not all) tram systems in France put design at the heart of the project. Lyon's trams are so different than anything else; Grenoble was at the forefront of low-floor technology, Montpellier opted for the pleasing blue of Line 1 and then the psychedelic livery for Line 2, Marseille plays homage to ships of its past its design, attractive tram stops in Strasbourg and Montpellier, and there are sections running across parks in many cities.

Compare it to Britain where there just wasn't the money available to put a unique design mark on our fledgling systems. Sadly, any politician in Britain who proposed designing a tram to reflect one of our cities or suggested turning tram stops into works of modern sculpture would be laughed at. Our Health & Safety Executive wouldn't even allow grass between the tram tracks despite it working absolutely fine in France. Such a shame.

[Plaistow]

Originally Posted by Falubaz

OMG!




This is a joke right?
But it's not the 1st april. Wtf?


As for Rennes: let us see more pictures!

Can anyone tell us what happened with this design? How comes it changed at the last minute? How many trams had to be altered? How does the redesigned nose look?

[Minato ku]

This is a train of the line T2 in Paris, they change the face design to provide a better safety for pedestrian.
These train run in a nearly entierly segregated tracks (it was a former suburban railway line) but with the two new extentions (opening in the end of 2009) these will run in a less segregated environement with more pedestrians.

I could add more information but this thread is for anything in France outside Paris.

[disturbman]

As a mater of fact it was design like this because of the Scharfenberg coupler that equips T2's trams. With the upcoming opening of more urbans section the trams couldn't run on the street withoout covering the couplers, it was a safety hazard.

Now the explication is complete.

[Minato ku]

And nothing is better than a picture to unsterstand that.