no metro project in the future transport plan until 2040

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INFO ACTU LYON. The elected environmentalists of the Metropolis of Lyon a you Sytralthe mobility organizing authority for the Lyon territories, continues to work on the future transport development plan for 2040. And according to our information, the final decisions are being made this fall.

This major plan, divided into several phases, will include important decisions regarding future public transport projects and even more broadly choices concerning the place of cars, cycle paths and walking.

On the public transport side, according to information fromnews Lyonno major project is planned for the metros of the TCL network.

Modernization of the current metro network

The 2040 mobility plan will then be the subject of a public inquiry in early 2025 for adoption next spring.

And this vast plan will not include any new metro line projects or extensions of existing ones. Only the already known metro renovation plan including the upgrade of lines A, D and C will be integrated.

“We try to plan realistic projects”, answers us Jean-Charles Kohlhaasvice-president in charge of travel, intermodality and urban logistics for the Lyon Metropolis and vice-president of Sytral.

“There will be no new projects on the metro aspect,” confirms the elected environmentalist. “The plan will include the west Lyon express tramway (TEOL) which can be considered as a light metro,” he said while the metropolitan opposition is up in arms against the abandonment of the E metro.

“If we build a metro, we don’t do anything else for 15 years”

“A consultation carried out in 2021 showed that no metro project is necessary in the metropolis. We don’t need a metro,” says Jean-Charles Kohlhaas. “In the metro E project, only one station justified its construction in relation to the population density.”

If we build a metro, we don’t do anything else for 15 years. Our choices allow us to have 7 or 8 major projects. We already have an ambitious metro plan in the Metropolis! The current metro is at the end of its life. Our predecessors did nothing. We have made a plan to modernize the metro at nearly 2 billion euros.

“Those who promise a metro plan during the elections know nothing about mobility, those who promise pharaonic projects during the electoral campaign are in lies and denial,” attacks the elected official.

In October 2023, several opposition mayors demanded and proposed the creation of a major “urgent and ambitious” metro plan. A desire according to them to push for the relaunch of the E metro in the west and to extend the existing lines, in particular the B to the north, the A to the east and the D towards the western plateau.

West Lyon express tram, Vénissieux/Vaulx-en-Velin tram, future Part-Dieu/Écully line…

According to our information, the mobility plan for 2040 will include the TEOL expected in 2031 and the future tramway between Gare de Vénissieux and Vaulx-en-Velin La Soie, the project of which is progressing and which we revealed this week.

A choice will also be made for the future Centre-West line to connect Part-Dieu to Écully via Vaise or La Duchère. The plan will specify whether it will be a tram or a high level of service bus.

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