Work is due to start in 2025, in parallel with the creation of the multimodal exchange hub.
If the removal of the Bessan road level crossing was quite a bit to digest for the residents of the so-called end of the bridge district, they have not yet finished with the long-term work.
Multimodal exchange hub, gateway on the roads…
Still at the northern entrance to the city, the digging of a river port on the Canal du Midi and especially the development of the Mediterranean area are medium-term objectives for the community. Closer to us, a project is looming that we have been hearing about for several years now, that of the creation of a multimodal exchange hub at the Agde SNCF station. A “PEM” for those in the know, a place of exchange, as its name suggests, where different modes of transport will connect: rail obviously, river in the future, buses, bicycles and pedestrians, with specially designed lanes, notably on Avenue Victor-Hugo which will be closed to motorists, with Rue de la Digue passing into two-way traffic. Developments which are to be spread over two years – 2025 and 2026 – and which will be carried out in parallel with a necessary modernization of the SNCF station.
The station, hell for people with reduced mobility
It is for this reason that the Region, as part of a plan to improve accessibility of the Occitanie railway network, has just allocated an envelope of 8 million euros to adapt the infrastructure of Agde station . Work carried out “by SNCF Gares & Connexions from September 2025 to July 2026”specify the community services, which communicate on the nature of this project. “The platforms will be widened and a footbridge will be built to serve them, with elevators and stairs. The lighting, sound system and information screens will be brought up to standard. The program also provides for the replacement of furniture, the installation specific strips on the ground to alert visually impaired people of potential dangers, the installation of new signage or even fences to reinforce the safety of travelers.”
The Agde station, which welcomes 800,000 passengers annually with prospects, according to the SNCF, of 1.2 million by 2030, will therefore carry out “one more step towards taking into account people with disabilities, parents with strollers, elderly people.” Good news, finally.
