embark with France Bleu aboard the new cable car
This Friday takes place the inauguration of Téléo, the largest urban cable car in France. It will be open to the public free of charge on Saturday and Sunday. France Bleu Occitanie invites you to board exclusively on the occasion of a special morning between 6am and 9am.
It is an unusual means of public transport, but in development all over the world, that Toulouse will inaugurate this Friday. Téléo, the longest urban cable car in France, will be canceled on Friday after the prefect of Haute-Garonne authorized its operation. For the occasion, France Bleu Occitanie offers you a special program from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.with from 8 a.m., direct boarding in one of the cable car cabins.
Public transport… and a curiosity
Because Téléo should receive a lot of people this weekend. Tisseo, the mixed syndicate which operates public transport in the Toulouse metropolitan area, has chosen to make it two days free pendant for this opening. The inhabitants of Toulouse – and the others – could therefore embark to connect the Paul Sabatier University to the Oncopole (ex-AZF site) via the Rangueil hospital. Not really touristy as a visit, it’s true… but the new character of the cable car and the panorama offered over Toulouse from the hill of Pech David should have its effect. Especially when the weather is nice.
A new asset for travel in Toulouse, while waiting for the 3rd metro line
On the three km route and with its twelve cabins, Tisseo will be able to transport 8,000 passengers per day in his Teleo. It’s much less, almost nothing, compared to metro line A for example (400,000 passengers per day) but it’s an important axis which will make it possible to cross the Garonne and Pech David, green and high area of the pink city. Most of the clientele should be made up of students, professors from the Paul Sabatier University, and users of the Rangueil Hospital and the Oncopole. A station serves the 2nd Toulouse hospital site, within the building itself. Téléo also has a connection with line B of the Toulouse metro and the train station. Finally, it is symbolically an important step for the urban renewal of Toulouse, since the Oncopole is located on the former AZF site. A sector of the city that is not very produced, except by cars and workers today. The cable car will open on the city.
It is therefore an important step for Toulouse public transport. She intervenes. a few months before the start of work on the 3rd metro line between Colomiers and Labège. Work will begin next year, to last at least three years (note: estimated budget of 2.7 billion euros, against 82 million for Téléo).