Lyon-Jean Macé station (
French: ''Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé'') is a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
in the
7th arrondissement of Lyon
The 7th arrondissement of Lyon () is one of the nine arrondissements of Lyon, arrondissements of the City of Lyon.
Geography
Squares and streets
* Rue de Créqui
* Rue Duguesclin
* Rue Garibaldi
* Rue de l'Université
Quarters
* La Guill ...
. It is situated on the
Paris–Marseille railway
The railway from Paris to Marseille is an 862-kilometre long railway line, that connects Paris to the southern port city of Marseille, France, via Dijon and Lyon. The railway was opened in several stages between 1847 and 1856, when the final sect ...
and the
Lyon–Geneva railway. The station is a part of the
Lyon urban area rapid transit network. It was aimed to decongest the major stations Part-Dieu and Perrache while allowing access to the
public transport of Lyon (TCL). The station began operation on 13 December 2009.
History
The station was initially planned to be an unstaffed station, intended to lighten passenger load at the main Lyon stations while permitting access to the local
transport network
A transport network, or transportation network, is a network or graph in geographic space, describing an infrastructure that permits and constrains movement or flow.
Examples include but are not limited to road networks, railways, air routes ...
. However, the project expanded to include the redevelopment of the area surrounding the railway station, and plans came to envisage Jean-Macé station becoming the sixth station of Lyon, joining Lyon-Perrache, Lyon Vaise, Lyon-Saint-Paul, Lyon-Gorge de Loup and Lyon Part-Dieu. The project, under the supervision of works of RFF and SNCF and costing about 30 million euros, has benefited from the shared commitment of all partners and financial markets: Le Grand Lyon (37%), Région Rhône-Alpes (36.5%), Réseau Ferré de France (19.8%), Sytral (5.3%), SNCF (1.3%).
The station allows passengers to regional trains from
Bourgoin-Jallieu,
La Tour-du-Pin,
Saint-André-le-Gaz,
Vienne,
Valence,
Mâcon and
Villefranche-sur-Saône, according to their final destination, to use the new station as additional entry point in the center of Lyon.
The station was officially opened on 8 December 2009, and five days later it opened to the public. The first year, 3800 passengers per day were expected, including 1,800 new customers, and the goal is to reach 6600 passengers for 2015.
Location and description
The station is located on the railway bridge which is parallel to the
avenue Berthelot and perpendicular to the avenue Jean-Jaurès. It is served by
line B of the metro, the
tram T2, many city buses (lines C4, C7, C12, C14, 35, S3, Zi6), a taxi station and two
Vélo'v
Vélo'v is a bicycle sharing system, bicycle-sharing system running in the city of Lyon, France, in conjunction with the advertising company JCDecaux. It has been the pioneer of smart bicycle-sharing systems, previous systems being more ad hoc a ...
stations.
It is accessed via two entrances on both sides of the avenue, under the bridge. In the halls, a screen displays real-time the next departures of the different transport in Lyon from the pole Jean Macé.
This station is the first one in Lyon to be equipped with a collective record that can accommodate 110 bicycles.
See also
*
Place Jean-Macé
*
Transport in Rhône-Alpes
*
TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
References
External links
Official siteTimetables TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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Railway stations in France opened in 2009
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