• After lines A and B, Tisséo will be consistent by calling its third metro line “Line C”.

  • Except that there is already a line C, on rails between the Arènes and Colomiers, which will have to be cleverly renamed.

  • The names of the 21 stations will be chosen during 2023. And let it be said, they will not be original.

    Moreover, we reveal some of them to you.

Exit the Toulouse Aerospace Express (TAE) line, a "project name" chosen by elected officials at the very start to make people dream and signify that the third line of the Toulouse metro would serve Airbus.

“Line 3”, a fairly consensual provisional name, will in fact be called “Line C”.

It is at least "very likely", according to Jean Michel Lattes, the president of Tisséo, who wrote last summer to the mayors concerned - those of Labège and Blagnac in particular - to test the waters and obtain a free-flowing consent. , since the first two rows are A and B.



A clairvoyant contributor has even already formalized the baptism on Wikipedia, even if nothing has been voted on yet.

But logic and coherence do not exclude the puzzle, or even, Jean-Michel Lattes admits, “consequences that are heavy to manage”.

Because a line C, there has already been one since 2006: the portion of the TER Toulouse-Auch line, which acts as the “RER” between the Arènes and Colomiers.

Few people from Toulouse call it that.

But the approximately 4,000 users who use it every day do.

And the misunderstanding likely to be generated by this cohabitation of two C lines, which moreover both pass through Colomiers station, did not escape Karine Traval-Michelet, the mayor of the town.

Blagnac station in Blagnac, efficiency not originality

Work on the board for 2023. Because, even if the third metro line will not come into service until 2028, it is the deadline that the transport authority sets for itself to officially baptize not only the line but also its 21 resorts.

“The names will be voted on by the union council and I even have the possibility of calling on a historian in case of doubt”, explains Jean-Michel Lattes.

There is "no rule in the matter" except that of not being original.

No, the new line will not be an opportunity to bring a deserving character out of oblivion: "The name must be identifiable by everyone, which is why geographical names are very effective", underlines the specialist.

Besides, the Jean-Maga station which appears on the plans should not keep the name of this deputy mayor from Blagnac (between 1971 and 1983).

Without disrespecting this civil engineer, Joseph Carles, the mayor of Blagnac wants the only metro station in his city to be simply and logically called Blagnac station.

The dice are already cast also for connection stations with other lines.

It will be François-Verdier at François-Verdier, Marengo-SNCF, as usual, at Matabiau, and La Vache à la Vache.

While waiting for the other 17 names, be aware that on the plans, in the trains and stations, the route of line C should take the color green.

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