Lyon Metro, France

Lyon Metro: Overview

Lyon Metro design inspiration is Montreal Metro, which was built a few years earlier and has similar station designs and rubber-wheel cars.

• Known as: metro
• System length: 31.5 km (80% underground)
• Number of lines: 4
• Number of stations: 42
• Website: www.tlc.fr
• Operator: TLC (Transports en commun lyonnais)
• Average ridershiop: 708,232 per day.
• Start of operation: 1978

 

Lyon metro lines and stations

Line A: It is the Red Line. It passes through: Perrache – Vaulx en Velin – La Soie. Stations:
Perrache train station, Ampère – Victor Hugo, Bellecour, Cordeliers, Hôtel de Ville – Louis Pradel, Foch, Masséna, Charpennes – Charles Hernu, République – Villeurbanne, Gratte-Ciel, Flachet, Cusset, Laurent Bonnevay, Vaulx-en-Velin – La Soie

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Lille Metro: First transport System using VAL technology

Lille metro system (France) is the world’s first metro VAL technology employed, a closed system wheeled fully automatic. It is the new generation of metro systems, a small profile light railway that operates automatically and it needs no operator.
VAL is an acronym that means “Véhicule Automatique Léger” (Light Automatic Vehicle) but at first meant “Villeneuve d’Ascq – Lille”

 

• Known as: Metro
• System Length: 33 mi
• Dimentions: 6 ft wide and 15 ft long (two linked cars).
• Number of lines: 2
• Number of stations: 59
• Top Speed: over 155 MPH
• Website: www.transpole.fr, uk.transpole.fr (English)
• Operator: Transpole Lille Métropole
• Average ridership: it carries 135.000 passengers per day, just line 1.
• Start of operation: It is operating since April 25 of 1983 connected the stations of Quatre Cantons (Villeneuve d’Ascq) and République (Lille) station.