Toulouse. What names for the stations of the third metro line?
The names given to the 21 metro stations of the third Toulouse metro line are not final. Tisséo plans to consult with residents on this subject.
Balma-Gramont, Jean Jaures, Francois Verdier… The names of the metro stations on lines A and B have become part of the habits of Toulouse residents. Tisséo hopes to do as well with the 21 stations the future third line whose commissioning is adapted for 2028.
The names of the stops were mentioned during the union council of the public transport operator of the Toulouse metropolis on Wednesday February 16. The names indicated on the cards of the third are only provisional. These are “technical names”.
Work on the names of the stations of the third line of the Toulouse metro has begun
“It’s an important subject, a subject that is not neutral”, according to the president of Tisséo, Jean-Michel Lattes. “Its very important. A name is above all an identification. For example, if we take Blagnac-Jean Maga; Jean Maga is much harder to identify than Blagnac-Jean Maga.
Work on the subject has already been produced with an expert archivist. Other steps will follow before deciding on the final names of the stations. According to the leader, “there is a lot of work that will be done with consultations with the district mayors or the district commissions, to come up with the final names”. He believes that “on lines A and B, we were not too wrong”.