FRANCE | Urban Transport Compilation

[Minato ku]

It is quite a good news, Tours metro area is not far to the 400,000 inhabitants.
As the largest city in Centre region, it needed a real urban transportation network.
Orléans the second largest city of the region (370,000 inh metro) opened its first line in 2000 and has its second line u/c.

Originally Posted by Mekky II

http://www.agglo-tours.fr/index.php?...IDENTIFIANT=48
They talk of the delivery of the tram, nothing is said about the line.

There is a site for the tramway http://www.tram-tours.fr/

Opening in September 2013 as said hhouse
-15 km
-25 stations
-54,900 passengers per day

It will use the current busway but not entierely


Here in the main street of Tours

Nowaday


The city hall

Nowaday


The tram will run next to the main railway station of Tours unlike the current busway

[Minato ku]

Le Havre tram
Le Havre is a city of 290,000 inhabitants (metro) in Normandy (western France).
The city host the largest port in France.

Opening in the end of 2012
-13 km
-23 stations


The dotted part is underground as Le Havre is quite hilly.





http://www.tramway-agglo-lehavre.fr/

Some pictures of where the tramway will run.

[Mekky II]

"La Communauté d’agglomération de Rouen présidé par Laurent Fabius a choisi la rame Citadis d’Alstom pour renouveler le parc de son tramway, communément appelé à Rouen “métro“, a-t-on appris mardi. La commande porte sur 27 rames pour un marché qui s’élève à 90 M€.

Le modèle retenu est le véhicule le plus gros de la gamme Citadis. Il mesure 42 mètres de long sur 2,40 mètres de large et peut transporter 302 passagers dont 70 assis, soit l’équivalent de 4 autobus. La capacité supplémentaire sur une journée sera de 38.300 passagers par rapport aux 28 rames – également Alstom – acquises à partir de 1994 lors de la mise en service du premier tronçon du métro. Les nouvelle rames constitueront également une avancée en terme d’accessibilité avec un plancher bas intégral à hauteur de quai, indique la Communauté d’agglomération. Elles sont recyclables à 98% et consomment 10% d’énergie en moins. Son design, c’est à dire la coque avant et la cabine de conduite est modulable selon les goûts du réseau.

Les rames Citadis, conçues et assemblées dans l’usine Alstom de la Rochelle, seront mises en circulation en 2012 sur le réseau constitué de deux lignes en “Y“ renversé, le tronc commun desservant le centre de Rouen, rive droite (en souterrain sur 1,7 km) et rive gauche. Une ligne dessert ensuite Sotteville-les-Rouen, Saint-Etienne du Rouvray où se trouve technopôle du Madrillet. L’autre ligne dessert Petit-Quevilly et Grand-Quevilly. En 2008, il y a eu 15,5 millions de voyages sur le réseau.

A la construction du réseau qui est exploité par la TCAR (groupe Veolia), les stations ont été conçues pour accueillir des rames de plus grande capacité avec une longueur de quai de 60 mètres prenant en compte l’éventuel doublement des rames."

They will look like similar to new ones of Orléans.

[Minato ku]

Rouen will remplace the current TFS with new Citadis, to provide a better capacity.


As these tram cars are still recent, this rolling stock will move to Grenoble after a renovation.

[Minato ku]

Lyon metro line A


With 220,000 passengers per day, it is the second busiest metro line outside Paris (the first being the line D of the same metro network).
This line was opened in 1978 (last extension in 2007), it is 9.3 km long and serve 14 stations.
Unlike other metro of France, Lyon subway trains run on the left.

Train are the MPL75 rolling stock in service since 1978 and refurbished in the end of the 90's early 2000's.
MPL75 are 2.9m wide and rubber tired

[Minato ku]

[Minato ku]

Siemens selected for Rennes metro Line B

16 November 2010



FRANCE: Mayor of Rennes Daniel Delaveau announced on November 16 that Siemens has been selected as preferred bidder by transport authority Rennes Métropole to build the city’s second driverless metro line. The €200m contract will be submitted to the city council for ratification on November 18.

Siemens Mobility France will be responsible for initial studies, systems engineering, project management, commissioning and maintenance for the turnkey project. The company will supply 19 Cityval two-car trainsets, Trainguard MT CBTC signalling, platform screen doors, telecommunications equipment and an operational control centre and depot.

The rubber-tyred Cityval is based on the Neoval concept developed by Siemens in conjunction with Lohr Industries. It uses the Translohr guidance system comprising two V-shaped rollers tilted at 45° which run along a central rail. The trains will be manufactured by Lohr in Alsace. The air-conditioned vehicles will have through gangways, large windows, real-time passenger information and CCTV video surveillance. Maximum operating speed is 80 km/h.

Line B will be 12·6 km long, running from Mermoz in the southwest to Champs Blancs in the northeast with 15 stations. The central section between Cleunay and Le Gast will pass under the city centre in a bored tunnel while the Cleunay-Mermoz and Le Gast-Chateaubriand sections will be cut-and-cover. The final 3·3 km from Chateaubriand to Champs Blancs will be elevated. Interchange to Line A will be provided at Sainte-Anne and Gares. Revenue service is envisaged in 2018.

Siemens previously supplied Rennes with automation technology and 16 rubber-tyred driverless VAL 208 cars for the 8·5 km Line A which opened in March 2002.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/new...ro-line-b.html



Rennes metro line B
-2013: Start of the work
-2018: Opening

[manrush]

Minato, I have a question about REAL. Is it going to be just an upgrade of the TER lines around Lyon or is it going to be a proper suburban rail akin to Transilien or Spain's Cercanias networks?

[Minato ku]

It is an upgrade of the TER lines around Lyon.

[Minato ku]

Still four month to wait before the opening of Reims tram.
Reims is a city of 187,206 inhabitants proper and 294,000 inhabitants for the metro area.
The city is located on the east of Paris and it is the biggest city of the Champagne Region.

The network will be 11 km km long for 22 stations.
The estimated daily traffic is 45,000.



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[FDW]

Originally Posted by Minato ku

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What do the P+r symbols on the map stand for?

[Minato ku]

It is for Park and ride.

[manrush]

I wonder if Line D of the Lyon Metro will increase its capacity anytime soon. I don't get why the busiest line outside of Paris only runs two-car trains.

[steph35]

Rennes VAL - Ligne A

[nanar]

Originally Posted by manrush

I wonder if Line D of the Lyon Metro will increase its capacity anytime soon.

Not before 2018 or 19

I don't get why the busiest line outside of Paris only runs two-car trains.

Two cars trains seemed (and were) sufficient, when building the line(1990).
And now (2011), it would be too expansive to buy few carriages to get four cars trains.

So Lyon Transit Authority waits some years and will buy a great serie of automatic four cars trains (between 2018 and 2020)

[manrush]

Are there any current plans for Lille's Transpole?

Such as, tramway expansion or new rolling stock or metro expansion?

The only thing I've read about so far, is that there is going to be a new high-frequency bus system in the agglomeration.

[charpentier]

Originally Posted by manrush

metro expansion?

+ 1.8 km with two stations for the line 1 toward Eurasanté.
Line 1 will be doubled in capacity.

Originally Posted by manrush

The only thing I've read about so far, is that there is going to be a new high-frequency bus system in the agglomeration.

This is la Corolle, bus rapid transit, circling Lille. It could be changed partially into a tram-train if needed.




There is also a radiant network made of "Lianes" = "L" in the map :



Not to mention a project of waterway shuttle service between la citadelle and Euratechnologies, or the bicycle rental service called Vélille for september 2011.


Two first tram-trains are planned, north-south (orange) and west-east (blue) :


http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...11&lci=transit


Here you'll find the schedule (in French)
http://www.lilletransport.com/Planni...du-reseau.html


Beyond, a RER or tram-trains will connect Lille with the Bassin minier and two tramways for Béthune and Lens are currently under study :


Proposed routes : http://www.smt-artois-gohelle.fr/out...nts/le_tramway

[Minato ku]

After the line D of Lyon metro, the longitudinal seating come on line A and B.


http://www.leprogres.fr/rhone/2011/0...tre-reamenages

[hhouse]

Some pics from Metro Marseille (from February 2011):

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[Axelferis]

a new line?

How many lines are in Lyon?