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Rhône-Alpes is a major European transit hub, linking northern France and Europe to the
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area. Millions travel along its
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s in summertime from
Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
to holidays at the sea. The E15 Euroroute (
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to
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) runs through the region. There are
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s at Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Étienne and many other minor airports and airfields. The region is also a transport hub for the rail-network with the
TGV The TGV (french: Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train"; previously french: TurboTrain à Grande Vitesse, label=none) is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated by SNCF. SNCF worked on a high-speed rail network from 1966 to 19 ...
running through Lyon from Paris and the north, to the Mediterranean. A trans-national, high-speed rail-link is projected from Lyon to
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.


Rail

Numerous cities of the region
Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône an ...
are served by TGV : * The
LGV Méditerranée The LGV Méditerranée (French: ''Ligne à Grande Vitesse''; English: Mediterranean high-speed line) is a French high-speed rail line running between Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence, Drôme and Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, also featuring a connecti ...
:
Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
, Lyon Part-Dieu, Valence TGV, and
Montélimar Montélimar (; Vivaro-Alpine: ''Montelaimar'' ; la, Acumum) is a town in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in north Provence, Southeastern France. It is the second-largest city in the department after Valence. In 2018, ...
. * To Paris : Lyon Part-Dieu, Valence TGV, Montélimar, Chambéry,
Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...
, Bourg Saint-Maurice,
Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the t ...
* In construction, a line to the North-East:
Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerl ...
,
Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...
and Lyon Part-Dieu) * In construction, a line to
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: Lyon Part-Dieu, Challes-les-eaux, Grenoble-Université Gières The TGV line Paris-Grenoble serves the international airport Lyon Saint-Exupéry. Every weekend in winter, Bourg-Saint-Maurice becomes one of the busiest stations in the region, when it is served by TGV trains from Paris and from Brussels, and by Eurostar from London. When a project of RER called
Réseau Express de l'Aire urbaine Lyonnaise Réseau Express de l'Aire métropolitaine Lyonnaise (or Real) is a project that consists in improving and unifying some railways lines in the Lyon metropolitan area. It is said to be a "RER à la lyonnaise" (a sort of RER in Lyon). The most signif ...
(REAL) is built, it will be the first RER of the province, the only other one being in Paris. Another RER called CEVA is planned for 2017, for the region of The leman lake (Geneva, Annemasse, Thonon-les-bains, Evian-les-bains) with extensions to La roche / foron, Annecy. Another railroad project is in realisation in
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to link the suburbs. There are also tourist train lines in Rhône-Alpes (in
Ardèche Ardèche (; oc, Ardecha; frp, Ardecha) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It is named after the river Ardèche and had a population of 328,278 as of 2019.Mont-Blanc Mont Blanc (french: Mont Blanc ; it, Monte Bianco , both meaning "white mountain") is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, rising above sea level. It is the List of European ultra-prominent peaks, second-most prominent mountai ...
)


Road

Rhône-Alpes is a major European transit hub, linking northern France and Europe to the
Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ...
area. Millions travel along its
motorway A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway and expressway. Other similar terms i ...
s in summertime from Paris to holidays at the sea. The E15 Euroroute (Britain to
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) runs through the region.


Public transport

12 transport authorities of public transport are implanted in
Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône an ...
* The
Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône an ...
region * The department of
Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where ...
* The department of
Isère Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.Loire The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône ...
* The department of
Rhône The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...
* The department of Sytral * Saint-Etienne Métropole * The Port of Isère * The community of Pays Viennois * The community of Villefranche-sur-Saône * The community of Bourg-en-Bresse * The community of Grand Roanne The three largest cities of Rhône-Alpes are equipped with streetcars and have a large bus network. The largest,
Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
, has four metro lines. Lyon and
Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the t ...
have kept their lines of
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es and, Saint-Etienne is one of the few cities in France to have retained its trams (in use since 1881). Many cities also have their bus networks (Valencia the CTAV Chambéry the STAC, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Roanne, etc.). There are also networks of inter-departmental cars. In winter, additional lines open to connect the valleys to ski resorts. This is the case between Grenoble and Chamrousse. Finally, the airport Lyon Saint-Exupéry is accessible by regular shuttle bus from the major surrounding cities, including Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Grenoble and Chambéry. There are also links between Grenoble and Saint-Geoirs Grenoble and between Bouthéon Saint-Etienne and Saint-Etienne. The Rhône-Alpes region is undergoing profound changes with regard to its rail network and many projects are being developed to the xpress_Network_of_the_urban_area_of_Lyons,_The_Project_of_the_East_Rail_Lyon,_the_Tram-train_from_the_west_Lyonnais.


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Public transport links in Lyonnais


Métro

The Lyon Metro, in
Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
, opened in 1978 and now consists of four lines. It is part of the Transports en commun lyonnais">Transports en Commun Lyonnais The Transports en commun lyonnais ("Lyon public transport" in French; usually referred to as TCL) is the Lyon public transport agency. It is the second largest public transport system in France (after Paris), and covers 73 communes, including all ...
 (TCL) system of public transport. Like the
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, but unlike all other French metro systems (excluding the RER), Lyon metro trains run on the left, the result of an unrealised project to run the metro into the suburbs on existing railway lines. The
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for lines A, B, and D is ,Loading gauge
 more generous than the average for metros in Europe. The loading gauge for line C is . The Lyon Metro owes its inspiration to the
Montreal Metro The Montreal Metro (french: Métro de Montréal) is a rubber-tired underground rapid transit system serving Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The metro, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), was inaugurated on October 14, ...
which was built a few years prior, and has the same rubber-wheel cars and station design. The total track length is , 80% of which is underground. The métro system consists of four lines, A-B-C-D, each identified on maps by different colours:  


Lines A and B

Lines A (''Perrache - Laurent Bonnevay'') and B (''Charpennes -
Part-Dieu Part-Dieu () is an area of Lyon Metropolis. It is also the second largest tertiary district in France, after La Défense in Greater Paris, with over 1,150,000 m2 of office and service space, along with 45,000 service sector jobs, 2,500 compan ...
'') were constructed using the cut-and-cover method, and went into service on May 2, 1978. Trains on both lines run on tyres rather than steel wheels. Line B was extended to ''Jean Macé'' on September 9, 1981, then to ''Gerland'' on September 4, 2000. A further extension to ''Oullins'' is expected to open in 2013. An extension to ''Vaulx-en-Velin La Soie'' on Line A opened in October 2007.


Line C

The ''Croix-Rousse-Croix-Paquet''
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, which was refurbished in 1974, was integrated into the Metro in 1978 as line C, running from (''Hôtel-de-Ville'' to ''Croix-Rousse''). It was extended to ''Cuire'' on December 8, 1984. The line was constructed using various methods; the incline rising through a deep tunnel, the portion on the flat at ''Croix-Rousse'' using cut-and-cover, while the section beyond ''Hénon'' runs on the surface. The ''Croix Paquet'' station claims to be the steepest metro station in Europe, with an incline of 17%.


Line D

Line D commenced operation under human control on September 4, 1991 between ''Gorge-de-Loup'' and ''Grange-Blanche''. Rubber-tyred trains run automatically with no driver on board, controlled by a system known as MAGGALY (''Métro Automatique à Grand Gabarit de l’Agglomération Lyonnaise''). The line was extended to ''Gare de Vénissieux'' on December 11, 1992, at which time it switched to automatic operation. On April 28, 1997, it was extended again to ''Gare de Vaise''. Being the deepest of the lines in Lyon, it was constructed mainly using boring machines and passes under both rivers, the ''
Rhône The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...
'' and the ''
Saône The Saône ( , ; frp, Sona; lat, Arar) is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, at the southern end of the Presqu'île. The name deri ...
''. At 13 km (8.12 mi) long, it is also the longest of the lines in Lyon.


Operation

The Metro, like the rest of the local public transport system, is operated by SLTC - the ' (Lyon public transport company), under the TCL brand - ' (Lyon public transport). It is operated on behalf of SYTRAL - the ' (Lyon metropolitan transport syndicate), a Syndicat Mixte.


Tramways


Line T1

Operates from 4:52am to 12:27am, maintained by the Centre de Maintenance de Saint-Priest - Porte des Alpes. *''Musée des Confluences'' ''extension to Musée des Confluences once the museum opens'' *Montrochet *Sainte-Blandine *Suchet * Perrache train station (transfers :
Gare de Lyon-Perrache Lyon-Perrache (french: gare de Lyon-Perrache) is a large railway station located in the Perrache district, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France. The station was opened in 1857 and is located on the Paris–Marseille railway, Lyon–Geneva r ...
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, Metro A, Tram T2, Bus 8 - 31 - 32 - 46 - 49 - 49D - 55 - 63 - 73 - 91 / Navette Presqu'Île - 96 - N4 - 101 - 105 - 125 - 175 / Airport shuttle - 182 - 184 - 185) *Quai Claude Bernard *
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(transfers : Bus 53) *Saint-André *Guillotière (transfers : Metro D, Bus 12 - 23) *Liberté *Saxe - Préfecture (transfers : Bus 4 - 18 - 23 - 28 - 99) *Palais de Justice - Mairie du 3ème (transfers : Metro B at Place Guichard - Bourse du Travail, Bus 28 - 99) *Part-Dieu - Servient () **Part-Dieu (transfers:
Part-Dieu Part-Dieu () is an area of Lyon Metropolis. It is also the second largest tertiary district in France, after La Défense in Greater Paris, with over 1,150,000 m2 of office and service space, along with 45,000 service sector jobs, 2,500 compan ...
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, Metro B, Bus C1 - 25 - 28 - 36 - 37 - 41 - 47 - 59 - 59E - 70 - 99 - 175 / Navette Gares Aéroport - Express Crémieu Bourgoin, Tram T3, Bus 198 - 296) *Thiers - Lafayette (transfer : Bus 1) *Collège Bellecombe (transfers : Bus 34) *Charpennes - Charles Hernu (transfers : Metro B - Metro A, Bus 27 - 34 - 37 - 59 - 59E - 70) *Le Tonkin *Condorcet (transfer : Bus 38) * Université Lyon I *
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- Einstein (transfer : Bus 69) *Croix-Luizet *IUT - Feyssine. P+R Tramway.


Line T2

Operates from 4:55am to 12:35am, maintained by the Centre de Maintenance de Saint-Priest - Porte des Alpes. * Perrache train station (transfers :
Gare de Lyon-Perrache Lyon-Perrache (french: gare de Lyon-Perrache) is a large railway station located in the Perrache district, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France. The station was opened in 1857 and is located on the Paris–Marseille railway, Lyon–Geneva r ...
SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi ...
, Metro A, Tram T1, Bus 8 - 31 - 32 - 46 - 49 - 49D - 55 - 63 - 73 - 91 / Navette Presqu'Île - 96 - N4 - 101 - 105 - 125 - 175 / Airport shuttle - 182 - 184 - 185) *Centre Berthelot *Jean Macé (transfers : Metro B,
Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé Gare is the word for "station" in French and related languages, commonly meaning railway station Gare can refer to: People * Gare (surname), surname * The Gare Family, fictional characters in the novel '' Wild Geese'' by Martha Ostenso Places * ...
, Bus 4 - 11 - 18 - 35 - 47 - 53 - 96 - 175 / Navette Gares Aéroport) *Garibaldi - Berthelot (transfers : Bus 12 - 35) *Route de Vienne (transfers : Bus 12 - 35) *Jet d'Eau - Mendès France (transfers: Bus 36 - 53 - 296) *Villon *Bachut - Mairie du 8ème (transfers: Bus 23 - 24 - 26) *Jean XXIII - Maryse Bastié *Grange-Blanche (transfers: Metro D, Bus 9 - 28 - 34 - 38 - 79 - 175 / Navette Gares Aéroport) *Ambroise Paré (transfers: Bus 28 - 38) *Vinatier *Essarts - Iris *Boutasse - Camille Rousset (transfers: Bus 81) *Hôtel de Ville -
Bron Bron () is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, eastern France. Geography Bron lies east-southeast of central Lyon. It is the sixth-largest suburb of the city of Lyon, and is adjacent to its east side. Climat ...
(transfers: Bus 9 - 24 - 79) *Les Alizés *Rebufer (transfers: Bus 52 - 78) *Parilly - Université (transfers: Bus 81) *Europe - Université *Porte des Alpes (transfers: Bus 26 - 81). P+R Tramway *Parc Technologique *Hauts de Feuilly *Salvador Allende *Alfred de Vigny (transfers: Bus 62 - Zi1) * Saint-Priest - Hôtel de Ville (transfers: Bus 50 - 53 - 54 - 62 - 94 - Zi1) *Esplanade des arts (transfers: Bus 50 - 62) *Jules Ferry (transfers Bus 50 - 53 - 94) *Cordière * Saint-Priest - Bel Air (transfers: Bus 50E - 53). P+R Tramway.


Line T3

Operates from 4:27am to 12:08am, maintained by the Centre de Maintenance de
Meyzieu Meyzieu (; frp, Mêsiô) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is a large suburb of Lyon, situated 13 km east of the city centre on the left bank of the Rhône. Before 1967, it was part of t ...
. Codenamed "LEA" (Ligne de L'Est de l'Agglomération), Line T3 runs along a portion of the former CFEL (''Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est de Lyon'') train line from the Gare de l'Est de
Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
to Saint-Genix-d' Aoste (via
Crémieu Crémieu () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. This small medieval village of 3,375 inhabitants (2019) hosts a celebration called "Les Médiévales" every year in September, which reconstitutes the lifestyle of the ...
, Jallieu et Montalieu). *Gare Part-Dieu (transfers :
Part-Dieu Part-Dieu () is an area of Lyon Metropolis. It is also the second largest tertiary district in France, after La Défense in Greater Paris, with over 1,150,000 m2 of office and service space, along with 45,000 service sector jobs, 2,500 compan ...
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, Bus 198 - 296. Metro B, Tram T1, Bus C1 - 25 - 28 - 36 - 37 - 41 - 47 - 59 - 59E - 70 - 99 - 175 / Navette Gares Aéroport - Express Crémieu Bourgoin) *Dauphiné - Lacassagne (transfers: Bus 25 - 28 - 34) *Reconnaissance - Balzac (transfer: Bus 99) *Gare de
Villeurbanne Villeurbanne (; frp, Velorbana) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after tha ...
(transfer: Bus 38). P+R Tramway *Bel Air - Les Brosses (transfer: Bus 81) *
Vaulx-en-Velin Vaulx-en-Velin () is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Lyon, and is located to its northeast, on the river Rhône. History The rivers, including th ...
- La Soie (transfer: Metro A, opening September 20, 2007, Bus 16 - 64 - 68 - Direct Eurexpo). P+R Métro et Tramway *Décines - Centre (transfer: Bus 67). P+R Tramway *Décines-Charpieu - Grand Large (transfers: Bus 7 - 16 - 67 - 85 - 95). P+R Tramway *Meyzieu - Gare (transfer: Bus 67). P+R Tramway *Meyzieu - ZI (transfer: Bus Zi2). P+R Tramway. Line T3, which is 14.6 km long, runs largely on ballasted railroad track. It takes 23 minutes to go from Part-Dieu Villette to Meyzieu - ZI, and runs at a maximum speed of 70 km/h (60 km/h at intersections, of which 26 are equipped with crossing gates). 7 km run near residential areas and are equipped with a noise barrier.


Line T4

Line T4 runs between Jet d'Eau and Cliniques Feyzin. A future extension is planned from Gare Part-Dieu to Jet d'Eau. *Jet d'Eau - Mendès France (Revised bus network when new line opens to be determined later : Tram T2) *Lycée Lumière *États-Unis - Musée Tony Garnier *Professeur Beauvisage - CISL *États-Unis - Viviani *Joliot Curie - Marcel Sembat *La Borelle *Gare de Vénissieux (transfer: Metro D). P+R Métro *Croizat - Paul Bert *Marcel Houël - Hôtel de Ville *Lycée Jacques Brel *Herriot - Cagne *Vénissy *Division Leclerc *Maurice Thorez *Lénine - Corsière *Darnaise *Hôpital
Feyzin Feyzin () is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas region ...
- Vénissieux.


Rhônexpress

Rhônexpress is an express line which will link Part-Dieu Villette to Saint-Exupéry airport, with intermediate stops at Vaulx-en-Velin – La Soie (transfer to Metro Line A) and Meyzieu ZI. It was scheduled to open in 2009. The
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of the
Rhône The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...
franchised the operation of this line for 30 years to
Rhônexpress Rhônexpress is an express tram-train service which links central Lyon, France, with its airport, Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, and the TGV train station located there. The route is long, and served by six tram-train sets, built by Swiss man ...
, a consortium including
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(28.2%),
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(28.2%), Vossloh Infrastructure Service (4.2%), Cegelec Centre Est (2,8%) and the
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''Ville et transports - magazine'', January 17, 2007.


Bus and trolleybus

TCL's bus network includes more than one hundred bus routes. Although greatly reduced compared to 1950, the Lyon trolleybus system is still the largest in France.


Grenoble trams

Grenoble's
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network is 32 km long, and comprises five lines: lines A, B, C, D and E. Line A was opened in 1987, line B in 1990, line C entered into service in 2006, line D opened in 2007, and line E in 2014. A previous network of tramways existed in Grenoble between 1894 and 1952. Grenoble became the second French city to reintroduce the tramway, after
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.


Rolling stock

The Tramway de Grenoble is served by a total of 88 pieces of rolling stock. Of those, 58 are TFS trams and the other 35 put in service on the occasion of the opening of the B line extension and the C line are
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trams.


Network

The network comprises 65 stations, 12 of which are shared by two lines. Line A has 29 stations, line B has 20 stations, line C has 19 stations, line D has 6 stations and line E has 17 stations. Projects for extensions are : line A extension (North: from Fontaine to
Sassenage Sassenage (; frp, Sassenâjo) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration).
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- South: from ''Étienne Grappe'' to ''
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Bus lines

Urban Bus lines: *1 Grenoble ''Trois Dauphins'' - Claix ''Pont Rouge'' / Varces ''République''. *3 Le Fontanil ''Croix de la Rochette'' / Saint-Égrève ''Rochepleine'' - Grenoble ''Chavant'' *9 La Tronche ''Grand Sablon'' - Meylan ''La Détourbe'' *11 Échirolles ''Comboire'' - Universités Biologie / Gières Universités ''IUT UFRAPS'' *2 Eybens ''Les Poulardes'' - Eybens ''La Grange du Chateau'' *13 Échirolles ''La Luire'' - Grenoble ''Trois Dauphins'' *16 La Tronche ''Cimetière du Grand Sablon'' / Grenoble ''Verdun Préfecture'' - Pont de Claix ''Flotibulle'' *17 Le Gua ''Les Saillants'' - Grenoble ''Trois Dauphins'' *21 Grenoble ''Verdun Préfecture'' - Gières ''Le Japin'' *23 Saint Martin d'Hères ''Neyrpic Belledonne'' - Grand'Place / Seyssins ''Le Prisme'' *26 Grand'Place / Fontaine ''Place du Néron'' - Universités Biologie *30 Grenoble ''Gare Europole'' / Saint Égrève ''Cap des H' '' - Saint Égrève ''Gare'' *31 Eybens ''Le Verderet'' - Meylan ''Maupertuis'' *32 Eybens ''Maisons Neuves'' - Corenc ''Montfleury'' / Meylan ''Lycée du Grésivaudan'' *33 Grenoble ''Petite Esplanade'' - Saint Martin d'Hères ''Les Alloves'' / ''Le Carina'' *34 Sassenage ''Le Château'' / Grenoble ''Polygone Scientifique'' - Poisat ''Prémol'' *41 Grenoble ''Docteur Martin'' - Domène ''Chenevières'' / ''Les Arnauds'' *51 Sassenage ''Les Engenières'' / ''L'Ovalie'' - Seyssinet-Pariset ''Cimetière'' / Seyssins ''Le Prisme'' *55 Sassenage ''Maladière'' - Seyssinet-Pariset ''Village'' *56 Fontaine ''La Poya'' - Veurey ''Mairie'' / Veurey ''Le Châtelard'' *58 Seyssins ''Les Nalettes'' - Claix ''Pont Rouge'' *6020 Grenoble ''Gare Routière'' - Meylan ''Lycée du Grésivaudan''


Society of transport in Greater Saint Etienne

The Society of transport in Greater Saint Etienne (STAS) is the name of the company that manages and operates the various lines of trams, trolleybuses and buses of the Greater Saint Etienne. Organized and funded by
Saint-Étienne Métropole Saint-Étienne Métropole is the ''métropole'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Saint-Étienne. It is located in the Loire department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, central France. It was created in January 2018, replac ...
, the society is responsible for transportation to the 43 municipalities. The network is structured around two lines of trams, trolley lines and 54 bus lines that run through the agglomeration.


Airports

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districts. The largest airport in the region is Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport. It is located in the heart of the region, so that the main regional cities are within 100 km of the airport. The two other main airports are those of
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and
Chambéry Chambéry (, , ; Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the prefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The population of the commune of Chambéry was 58,917 as of 2019, while the population of the Chambér ...
. The airports of Grenoble and Chambéry are managed by the same company. * Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport: has the largest number of destinations (international) and the highest number of passengers. * Grenoble-Isère Airport and
Chambéry Airport Chambéry Airport or Chambéry-Savoie Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport de Chambéry - Savoie-Mont-Blanc) , also known as Chambéry Aix-les-Bains Airport, is a small international airport near Chambéry, a ''commune'' in Savoy, France. Comm ...
: mainly used by low cost airlines. There is more traffic in winter because of the influx of tourists to the ski resorts, particularly from
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, noted that the airport of Grenoble-Isère has become like Lyon, an international airport. *
Saint-Étienne - Bouthéon Airport Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the t ...
* Annecy - Haute-Savoie - Mont Blanc Airport


Rhône-Alpes transport projects

* TER Rhône Alpes *
Réseau Express de l'Aire urbaine Lyonnaise Réseau Express de l'Aire métropolitaine Lyonnaise (or Real) is a project that consists in improving and unifying some railways lines in the Lyon metropolitan area. It is said to be a "RER à la lyonnaise" (a sort of RER in Lyon). The most signif ...
*
Tramway de Grenoble The Grenoble tramway (french: Tramway de Grenoble) is the tram system in the city of Grenoble in the Rhône-Alpes region of France. In 1987, Grenoble became the second French city to reintroduce trams, the first being the Nantes tramway. The cur ...
*
Tramway de Saint-Étienne Tramway may refer to: * Tramway (industrial), a lightly laid railway for uses such as logging or mining * A tram transport system (public transport vehicles running on rails) ** The tracks which trams run on (also a section of reserved track for t ...
*
Rhônexpress Rhônexpress is an express tram-train service which links central Lyon, France, with its airport, Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, and the TGV train station located there. The route is long, and served by six tram-train sets, built by Swiss man ...
* Haut Bugey line


References

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