BEFORE AFTER. Toulouse. Here is your neighborhood with the 3rd metro line: Boulevard de Suisse
By Guillaume Laurent
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Addicted Colomiers a LabegeGoing through Toulouse Matabiauthe 3e metro line will be 27 kilometers long. While the project is expected for 2028 in the Pink City, the bulk of the work will really start 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. Sixth episode of the series: the station Boulevard de Suisse – Twin Bridges.
What you need to know about the Boulevard de Suisse – Ponts-Jumeaux station:
Installed on the edge of the boulevard de Suisse, in place of the La Maison de la Peinture sign – which had to move at the end of 2021 for new premises and which comes just been destroyed – this station will be located near a area suburban and factory Airbus Saint-Eloi. A rapidly changing district, close to the Garonne side canal, promised to an overall urban project, with the announced requalification of the industrial zone. Tisséo ensures that a “generous public space will be developed around the station in connection with the Boulevard de Suisse”.
Before and after the arrival of the Boulevard de Suisse – Ponts-Jumeaux station, here is what the neighborhood will look like:
The facilities planned at Boulevard de Suisse – Ponts-Jumeaux:
Tisséo intends to offer in this district in the north of Toulouse “a better sharing in favor of active modes and bus transport”. At the same time, the connections pedestrians and cycle paths allowing access to the station “will be fitted out”, announces the organizing authority for transport in the agglomeration.
Although this station is located near the ring road, Tisséo has finally rejected the hypothesis of a park and ride faced with the risk of a drawdown parking that is difficult to control. “Captive car users coming from the north of the conurbation will be able to fall back on the Borderouge park and ride (line B), La Vache (line B and 3e line) or Seven Deniers (3e line),” observes the community.
” Of the passenger drop-off/pick-up locations will also be offered” by contacting the Boulevard de Suisse station.
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