Lyons. Soon a cable car between Croix Rousse and Vaise? The project that will make people talk
By Nicholas Zaugra
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After the Lyon-Francheville gondola project highly contested by local residents and local elected officials, will the environmentalists of the Lyon metropolis push for the construction of a cable car between the Croix Rousse and Vaise?
During a borough initiative and consultation committee (Cica) on mobility in the town hall of the 4th arrondissement on March 16, 2022, Jean-Charles Kohlhaas, vice-president (EELV) of the Métropole de Lyon in charge of mobility , said all the good he offers for a project of cable transport between the Vaise district and the Croix-Rousse hill, published our colleagues from The Tribune of Lyon.
Transport problem in the 4th
The 4th arrondissement of Lyon is under-equipped with public transport and line C of the metro is very degraded. This line will also have to undergo major upgrading work in the coming years. On the scale of the entire metro network, Sytral will invest 900 million euros over 10 years to renovate them, including a part devoted to metro C.
“Without smiling at all, I believe that the mode of transport by cable is a mode of urban future even if there are constraints, in particular of overflight”, mentioned Jean-Charles Kohlhaas during this committee, evoking this option of a Croix Rousse-Vaise cable car.
He could from the terminus of metro line C to reach the Vaise district. “I think we need to think about a Croix-Rousse – Vaise connection because of the ability to do so with very little overflight, if at all. It could become very interesting with a fast journey time and accessible to everyone (people with disabilities, bicycles, etc.). It is an interesting track to dig, even if I cannot say that we will do it for sure, ”assures the chosen one.
A study done?
Even if the project is far from concrete, it will certainly speak in view of the fiery debates around the Lyon-Francheville project.
The metropolitan elected official paved the way for the launch of a study while another option of the Vaise station in Caluire has already been analyzed.
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