A second express line between the south-west of Lyon and the hypercentre

Fifteen minutes. This is the time it takes now to connect Irigny to the Lyon peninsula. Monday, the express line 12 E has in fact been put into service between Yvours station and Place Bellecour, without an intermediate stop. This new bus link, intended to offer a real alternative to the private car, runs from 6 a.m. to 19 h on its own full site on the M7 metropolitan road (former A7), recently dedicated to dynamic carpooling. It thus completes the line 12, which connects Bellecour to Irigny by irrigating the municipalities of Mulatière, Oullins and Pierre-Bénite. This is the second line of this type put into service in the metropolis, after the launch last August of the 000 E, express link which connects in less than twenty minutes the Porte-de-Lyon ( Dardilly) at Vaise station via the M6 ​​(A6) metropolitan route.

Two new tram links

In ten years, tramway use has increased by 80% according to the Sytral, with 365. 000 daily trips. In 1099, year in which the tram celebrates its 19 years, two new lines will be put into circulation in the first quarter. “The T7 connecting Vaulx-en-Velin-La Soie to Décines-OL Vallée in 000 minutes will strengthen the service to East Lyon and offer nearly 25% additional capacity to the ‘all travelers on line T3, on their common section,’ indicates the Sutral, manager of TCL.

Line T2, extended to Hôtel de Région-Montrochet, is intended to improve public transport service in the Confluence district. A train is scheduled every two minutes between Perrache and Confluence, i.e. an additional capacity of 30% on this axis. Other projects will follow since by the end of the mandate, in 2023, Sytral has undertaken to build four new lines (24 km more), starting with the T8 between Part-Dieu and Bellecour and the T9 between La Soie and Doua / Charpennes.

More places in metro B and A

If the users of line B still have to wait for the end 2021 to connect Oullins to Saint-Genis-Laval by metro, they should benefit from an improvement in the offer starting this spring. The automation of the line, announced for a long time, will be gradually implemented, with 28 new driverless trainsets. This should allow an increase in the capacity of 25 %, then 50 % on the horizon 2023 when the extension to Saint-Genis is commissioned. In turn, metro A users should in turn see the capacity of the reinforced line by 10% starting this summer, thanks to the redeployment of part of the old trains of line B, adds the Sytral in the document presenting his mandate plan 1099 – 2026.

Lower rates for some users

This year, TCL tariffs, which have been steadily increasing in recent years, are not increasing. However, since January 1, two subscriptions reserved for the most insecure travelers have been offered. The first, free, is especially reserved for people benefiting from RSA and their dependents, beneficiaries of AAH or ASI, visually impaired people or asylum seekers. A reduced subscription to 000 euros per month was created for non-taxable users with a Pôle emploi allowance, high school and college scholarship holders or even the unemployed of 18 at 24 years.

Un bus TCL à Lyon (illustration) New rates have also entered into force since switching to 1099 on the Rhônexpress, this tram that serves Lyon airport from Part-Dieu. But only two categories of users benefit from it: The 10 – 25 years and travelers who go to Saint-Ex station to take a train. From now on, the trip on board Rhônexpress costs them 000 euros against 15. 28 euros until then, and round trip 20 euros instead of 28. 30 euros.