Sytral voted on Thursday to build four new tram lines for the next six years in Lyon.
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Sytral voted on Thursday to build four tram lines before the end of 2026 in the metropolis of Lyon.
A citizen consultation will be launched on the extension of the metro in the fall of 2021.
The future line E of the metro is not abandoned, but it will compete with three other projects.
Bruno Bernard never hid it during the municipal election campaign.
He has never been a fervent supporter of the metro, which is considered too expensive to build.
Thursday morning, when voting on the major public transport projects for the next six years, the EELV president of the metropolis of Lyon (also president of Sytral) made his choices.
The investment budget will be doubled to 2.5 billion euros.
And the package will be put on the tram in addition to the purchase of 400 ecological buses and the renewal of existing equipment.
A cable car from Francheville to Gerland
By 2026, four new lines are planned "to strengthen the cohesion of the territory".
Starting with the T8 tramway which will link the Bellecour district to that of Part-Dieu and which will run to the Doua or Vaulx-en-Velin campuses.
The future T9 will link the Soie district (Vaulx-en-Velin) and Villeurbanne.
The T10, which will leave from Vénissieux, will go to Gerland.
Finally, the current T6 will be extended between the hospitals in eastern Lyon and the Doua.
These new achievements will ultimately lead to a better network of the agglomeration.
They will also help to serve the south and east of the metropolis more efficiently, where the less well-off populations live in particular, as well as families who do not have the means to invest in the center of Lyon.
The west of Lyon, very little served by public transport except for a few bus lines, will be consoled with the construction of a cable car connecting Francheville to Gerland in 2025. An achievement that will transport between 20,000 and 25,000 travelers per day.
A citizen consultation on the metro
Metro line E, designed by Gérard Collomb's teams to serve the same sector, has not been abandoned.
But it is far from being on track.
It is a certainty: the first groundwork will not be given in the next six years.
Bruno Bernard indicated that he did not want to make hasty choices given the cost of this project, estimated at 1.4 billion euros.
“According to initial studies, this line would carry 60,000 travelers per day.
There is a citizen stake to go towards the most useful.
There is no point in building a metro if it concerns few people, ”argues the elected official.
A citizen consultation will therefore be launched in the fall of 2021 for everyone to express themselves.
Residents will have the choice to determine which metro project seems most relevant to them among four options: line E, the extension of metro A to Meyzieu, the extension of line D to La Duchère and the extension of line B to Caluire and Rillieux-la-Pape.
Against urban sprawl
“We don't have the means to do everything,” explains Bruno Bernard.
This is the reason why we want to see, at the scale of the agglomeration and within the framework of urban development, what is most relevant ”.
And to add: “There will be frustrations but I do not want to promote urban sprawl.
Building a metro also means encouraging people to move further afield.
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What then to answer to future inhabitants, who in the next ten or fifteen years will be forced to reside on the outskirts given the galloping increase in market prices in Lyon?
And who will probably continue to take their cars to go to work, for lack of rapid means of transport.
“It's a political choice.
Urban sprawl, much achieved in the 1980s, was catastrophic.
He is no longer the model of today, ”answers Bruno Bernard in the concluding guide.
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