Toulouse. Soon a “new generation” park and ride near a much talked about metro station
By Anthony Assemat
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It is a vast project that is currently taking place near Basso Cambo station, one of the two terminuses of line A of the Toulouse metro. This involves the expansion and transformation of the park and ride facility. By the end of 2022, the park and ride, which was previously on the surface, will be transformed.
“A new generation car park”
Wednesday March 30, 2022, Jean-Michel LatteChairman of Tisséo Collectivités, and Nicolas Misiak, president of Tisséo Voyageurs, made a stopover visit to this heavy construction site. “It’s a new generation car park that is designed to adapt to new uses. The car park is over”, explains Jean-Michel Lattes.
A capacity of 780 seats
The car park is integrated into floors, on the model of what already exists in particular in Balma Gramont and Argoulets, at the other end of line A. The total parking capacity is increased to 780 pitches, i.e. a 60% increase in capacity thanks to the five additional floors. But the uses of this “P+R” – in the jargon of Tisséo – will be multiple.
Park and ride open to all
The ground floor will be reserved for Tisséo, with a capacity of eight buses running on CNG gas, which will be added to the existing spaces around the metro station. Spaces for cars will be allocated to the first five floors of the park and ride.
“Parking will be free for Tisséo travelers, provided they have made a round trip and validated a transport ticket in the hour preceding the exit. You must also have parked for less than 24 consecutive hours. For other users, the park and ride can be used as a conventional car park”.
Remember that in these new terms, the first 30 minutes are free before it becomes chargeable (0.50 euro cents per quarter of an hour during the day, and at night from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., 25 euros per day, 150 euros for seven consecutive days and a maximum of 14 days of parking). The display of available spaces in real time, which has been extended to all Tisséo park and ride facilities since July 2021 on the Tisséo website and the app, will work for the future P+R of Basso Cambo.
Carpooling area, electric charging stations
A carpool area (15 seats), 16 pitches for disabled people and charging stations for electric cars (by 2023) will be created on site, again for cars, like the terminals that are already in service in Borderouge, Balma-Gramont and Ramonville.
A bike park… and for cargo bikes!
This park and ride will also be hybrid in the modes of transport. A new 100-space bicycle park will see the light of day, and supplemented by the commissioning of 21 covered arches (i.e. 42 places) under the ramp of the future parking silo. A location that will be glazed and monitored by cameras, while a cycle path will serve the hub of exchanges.
Little novelty : four places will be reserved for cargo bikes (two-wheeler and three-wheeler).
The park-and-ride in western Toulouse will also see the development, on the first floor, of the command and surveillance post for all Tisséo car parks, currently based at the Balma-Gramont metro exit, on the bus station side. . “The move should take place in the summer of 2022,” announces Tisséo. The surveillance post, in service 24 hours a day, employs about ten people.
The last floor reserved
The top floor is reserved for employees of the future office building, which must be attached to the car park and connected with the construction of a footbridge. Icade will be the contracting authority for this project, which has not been marketed until now. Photovoltaic panels will be placed on the metal frame that will house the cars.
On the ground floor, a commercial space of 140 m2 will have to animate this “service area” wanted by Jean-Michel Lattes.
An artistic and historical reference to the district
Finally, Tisséo wanted to add a cultural and artistic note to this project with nods to the history of the Basso Cambo district and its former agricultural land. “The future metal envelope of the car park will reference to vast expanses of wheat. They are powder-coated aluminum sheets and the perception of the facade is evaluated according to the movement of the user, recalling the undulation of wheat fields. 8,576 sheets of this type will cover the car park,” says Jean-Michel Lattes.
Tisséo announces delivery of the parking silo in September 2022, and the entire multimodal site by the end of 2022. The total cost of the works amounts to nearly 13 million euros.
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