BEFORE AFTER. Toulouse. Here is your neighborhood with the 3rd metro line: Sept Deniers – Stade Toulousain
By Guillaume Laurent
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27 kilometers long, the 3e metro line from Toulouse, to link to Colomiers a Labege, via the Pink City and its major aeronautical hubs. While the project is expected for 2028, the bulk of the work will actually begin at the end of 2022 with the civil engineering works.
All summer, Toulouse News you discover what your district should apply to, in a few years, after the establishment of the metro stations. Fifth episode of this series: the station of Seven Deniers – Stade Toulousain.
What you need to know about the Sept Deniers – Stade Toulousain station
This station will serve major public and sports facilities, including Ernest Walloon, lair of the Stade Toulousain, but also, on the south side, a sector made up of housing.
Located a stone’s throw from the stadium of the five times European champions, the future station will be located on part of the plot currently belonging to the Airbus CSE : the sports facilities of the TOAC (Toulouse Olympic Aerospace Club).
The location of this station had been bitterly discussed: initially, during the presentation of the first route of the 3e line at the end of 2015, it was to be in front of the Job area, in the heart of the Sept-Deniers, 10 minutes from the current location. But it had migrated to this new location, a few hectometres from Ernest-Wallon. What delight the supporters of Stade Toulousain, a little less certain inhabitants of the district.
However, the arrival of the metro will also lead to a important mutation des Sept-Deniers, in terms of town planning, with an inevitable densification neighborhood.
A 100-space relay car park nearby
Access to the station from the expressway will be facilitated, and Tisséo will develop a little) parking relay accessible from the A621 via the Chemin des Sept-Deniers. It will include 100 spaces, that is to say five times less than in the initial project, local residents having opposed the arrival of a “vacuum cleaner for cars” near their homes.
With the idea of facilitating pedestrian access in the surrounding area, Tisséo has also set itself the objective of creating a cross-sectional network to, on the one hand, connect the station to the heart of the district (Job), and on the other, connect the Sept-Deniers to the neighboring sectors by crossing the urban cuts towards the Minimes in the East, towards Purpan and Blagnac in the West.
Before and after the arrival of the Sept Deniers – Stade Toulousain station, here is what the neighborhood will look like:
The facilities planned at Sept Deniers – Stade Toulousain
According to the Tisséo project, this station located very close to Ernest-Wallon will integrate, in addition to the 100-space park and ride, “a station bus, an area of carpooling of about 20 places, a velostation 50 places and 30 places for bicycles”. The organizing authority for transport in the agglomeration also indicates that “cycle routes will be extended and strengthened for better access to the station”.
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