TCL in Lyon. Giant Metros breakdown, passengers evacuated: what is going on?

UPDATE. This Monday, May 5, 2025 at 10:35 am: According to TCL, it was 5 a.m. when an electrical incident occurred on line C, “causing total traffic interruption”. A relay bus fleet was quickly set up to ensure the continuity of travel, judges the operator who now announces a resumption of traffic around 2 p.m. against 11 a.m. before.

TCL also specifies that at 7:15 am, it was a technical incident that intervened on a train of line A, requiring the total stop of the line and the evacuation of three trains in tunnel. There, a fleet of relay bus has been deployed.

It is finally specified that it is due to the stop of line A, that line B was also impacted, the Charpennes station can no longer be served during the evacuation. Normal operation could be restored from 8:45 a.m. on lines A and B.

The End of school holidays went wrong on the TCL network in Lyon, this Monday, May 5, 2025.

Three metro lines were impacted by a giant breakdown. Metro C remains inaccessible for the moment.

A giant breakdown

The disturbances first concerned line A, completely cut from 7 a.m. on Monday morning. A incident technique was mentioned by TCL, which quickly set up relay buses. Then, a return to normal gradually taken place shortly before 9 a.m.

But this is not the case for the Metro Cwho missed his recovery after the bridge. The line is stopped this Monday morning on the whole of its career. And this time, the TCL advances “a defect in the electrical system”.

A recovery for 11 h is estimated. For your trips between town hall Louis Pradel and Croix-Rousse, “you can take the C13 bus line”, advises TCL.

Another breakdown on line B

Finally, note that disturbances have also impacted the line B This black Monday in Lyon. The automatic line was only circulating from Saint-Genis-Laval Hospital Lyon Sud on Part-Dieu.

Again, it was a technical incident that was behind these difficulties that touched thousands of Lyonnais.

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