• The future transport infrastructures of the Lille metropolis are currently in consultation.

  • In particular, it is a question of the construction of two tram lines and bus lines with a high level of service.

  • In Lille, the municipality considers a tramway serving the neighborhoods more relevant than the city center, which is already well provided with transport.

The new stage of the transport infrastructure master plan (SDIT) for the European metropolis of Lille (MEL) is in the consultation phase until April 5 before going before the elected metropolitan officials at the end of June.

Lille is particularly concerned, in particular because its territory will be crossed by a new tram line whose route remains to be defined.

In the idea, the city of Lille is rather favorable to accommodate part of the new tram line which must serve the metropolis from north to south, between Wambrechies and Seclin.

It remained to be determined how this line would cross Lille and not everyone agrees on this point.

When some already imagined a tram passing through the city center, the municipality does not see it anywhere other than on the outskirts.

An “environmental and social necessity”

"The route of the future tram is carried out on the west of the city in order to be able to connect the 3 sectors north, south and west of the city", imagines the town hall, with the idea "to bring the tram to the Faubourg de Béthune, Bois-Blancs, Lille-Sud, Moulins, Fives districts”.

A political choice that the town hall explains by an “environmental and social necessity” which would also allow the “urban renewal” and the economic development of these districts.

This Lille “tramway ring” would also serve ongoing projects, in particular that of the future new Cité administrative.

For the municipality, the hypothesis of a route crossing the city center is not relevant for several reasons.

Firstly because it would aggravate the “social divide”, but above all because the city center is already largely served by metros and buses.

And to the argument of crowded metros at rush hour, Lille opposes "the arrival of 52-meter trains on Line 1 and the increase in capacity on Line 2".

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