successful take-off for Téléo, the urban cable car
20,000 curious Toulouse residents took advantage of their free round trip on Saturday for the inauguration of this new mode of transport from the Paul Sabatier science campus to the Oncopole, via the University Hospital of Rangueil. The Toulouse metropolis is counting on 7,000 passengers per day, and has paid 82 million euros for the longest urban cable car in France.
“A central link in the southern belt”
Téléo makes it possible to make a 3 km journey in ten minutes which takes 30 minutes by the ring road. Beyond the poles of attraction served, the community has the ambition to integrate it into the Toulouse transport network. “On the Paul Sabatier side, it is connected to line B of the metro, and to Montaudran and Saint Orens thanks to the Linéo 7. On the other side, the Oncopole station has been served since last September by the fast bus line 25 which goes to Colomiers, via Basso Combo and Tournefeuille,” explains Jean-Michel Lattes, vice-president of Toulouse Métropole and president of Tisséo communities and engineering. It also points to the future connection, via Linéo 7, to the third metro line, which will connect Labège to Colomiers in 2028.
Sliding between the five pylons of 450 tons of metal thanks to three cables, the 15 cabins of 34 places realized by Poma (the manufacturer of the mountain cable cars) will circulate from 5:15 a.m. to midnight every day, every one and a half minutes on the hour. peak. “At maximum speed and with five more cabins, we can go up to 20,000 passengers per day”, projects Jean-Michel Lattes.
Bordeaux interested?
Nicolas, 40, works in power tools. Accompanied by his two sons of 13 and 11 years old, he is amazed by the technology “low in electricity consumption”, according to him. Sensitive to ecology, this resident of Escalquens combines cycling and carpooling to go to work in Basso Cambo. “Téléo will allow me to save 10 of my 22 km of cycling by flying over the hill of Pech David”.