BEFORE AFTER. Toulouse. Here is your neighborhood with the 3rd metro line: Jean Rieux
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 summerToulouse News you discover what your district should apply to, in a few years, after the establishment of the metro stations. 14e episode of the series: the station John Rieux.
What you need to know about Jean Rieux station:
The Jean Rieux station, in the chic Côte Pavée district, will be deployed in a central residential sector relatively dense, at the corner of the eponymous avenue and rue Pradal. Very close to the Côte Pavée library, it is also intended to serve school and cultural facilities, an EHPAD, or even the surrounding shops.
As Tisséo had indicated, the creation of a metro station here also aims to respond to the lack of structuring public transport in this part of eastern Toulouse, and to relieve road traffic. The challenge of the “penetrating” – these long avenues or boulevards that cross the city for several kilometers – is very important in the Pink City: line B had been able to fill a need in the south, on the avenues Saint-Michel and URSS (Palais de Justice, Saint-Michel, Saint-Agne stations, etc.) and in the extension towards the Narbonne road (Paul-Sabatier University station). Ditto for line A with the Agde road to the northeast (Jolimont, Roseraie, Argoulets and Balma-Gramont stations). On the 3e line, the Jean Rieux, Limayrac and L’Ormeau stations will have the same mission.
Before and after the arrival of the Jean Rieux station, here is what the neighborhood will look like:
30 meters deep
Here, Tisséo is counting on 10,600 tickets validated per day at most, which makes it the sixth most attempted station of the 3e line, neck and neck with its neighbors Limayrac – Cité de l’Espace (11,400) and L’Ormeau (10,500).
Note that this station, installed at 30 meters underground, Will also be one of the deepest in the network, “for reasons of the quality of the subsoil”, explained Tisséo.
The developments made at Jean Rieux:
Concerning Jean Rieux, Tisséo intends to “requalify the surroundings of the station in order to develop a square Endowed with a landscape character”. Through this operation, “better sharing of public space in favor of pedestrian modes, cycles will be proposed”, continues the transport authority in the agglomeration. If it does not detail the equipment planned in the district, the management announces that “devices of parking bike will be deployed around the station”, but also that “paths and pedestrian crossings allowing access” to the metro entrance “will be developed to make them more comfortable”.
Finally, it specifies that “if necessary”, stopping the Lineo 8 “will be adapted to facilitate connections with the metro”.
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