BEFORE AFTER. Toulouse. Here is your district with the 3rd metro line: Limayrac – Cité de l’espace
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. 15e episode of the series: the station Limayrac – City of Space.
What you need to know about the Limayrac – Cité de l’Espace station:
Between two stations (Jean Rieux and L’Ormeau) which will serve avenue Jean Rieux, the ramps of 3e metro line makes a detour by the alley of Limayracfor the 15e stop since their departure from Colomiers-Gare.
Located in the heart of a residential area, dense in housing but also in shops, the Limayrac – Cité de l’Espace station will provide residents of the eastern part of the chic Côte Pavée district with a metro station that they have been waiting for. The chosen location is at the top of the Allée de Limayrac, opposite the Petit Casino shopping centre, at the corner of rue Xavier Darasse and place Auguste Albert, and in the immediate vicinity of rue de Limayrac and Avenue Lucien Baroux.
Before and after the arrival of the Limayrac – Cité de l’Espace station, here is what the district will look like:
Close (or almost) to the Cité de l’Espace
This station was initially presented as “Côte Pavée – Limayrac – Cité de l’Espace”. If the names of the metro stations are still all temporaryTisséo obviously wants to adjoin one of the leading tourist sites in the Pink City, because it is located near the Cité de l’Espace. The bravest could indeed stop at this station and walk about 1.2km via the Allée de Limayrac, to take advantage of this Toulouse tourist beacon.
As for the expected crowds, with 11,400 travelers maximum per day, this station will be, according to Tisséo’s projections, in the Top 5 of the most cited of the 3e line, behind Colomiers Gare (11,600), La Vache (16,300), François Verdier (22,400) and Marengo (36,000), but just ahead of its neighbors Jean Rieux (10,600) and L’Ormeau (10,500) .
Developments planned at Limayrac – Cité de l’Espace
Currently here, the bus service is provided by line 37, which connects metro lines A to Jolimont and B to Ramonville via the Cité de l’Espace.
According to Tisséo’s plans, the Limayrac – Cité de l’Espace station should be built “a new multimodal hub” with the development of “a bicycle parking area (20 places with regulated access and 30 places on the square), a drop-off/recovery” and, in the long term, “bus platforms”. The transport authority in the agglomeration indicates that it is planning “related facilities” in order to “preserve access to shops, pedestrian/cycle paths and to reinforce crossings to access the station”.
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