during the works, a temporary bus station deployed in Colomiers
At the end of March 2022, preparatory work was launched. Their goal was to build a temporary bus station which will be put into service on Monday, October 17 in Colomiers. A new stage of the vast construction site of the 3rd line of the Toulouse metro
The right-of-way of the current bus station will be occupied by the construction site of the terminus station of the 3rd metro line. This station will eventually be deployed within a multimodal exchange hub consisting of the existing railway station, a park and ride, a bus station, parking facilities for bicycles and a boarding area. carpooling. The station car park will also be closed to parking from March 2023.
In a press release, Tisséo specifies the new features for parking near the SNCF station and the bus station:
- More than 1,000 places are available in downtown Colomiers. 4 public car parks are available free of charge: Lauragais, Rouergue, Quercy and Périgord. These car parks are accessible from the station via the Tisséo bus network.
- a new reserved and secure route for pedestrians and cycles, between the station and the town center of Colomiers via the En Sigal passage and the Allée de la Piscine, allows this distance to be covered in 12 minutes on foot and 4 minutes by bike.
- a drop-off/pick-up area (places reserved for getting off and on board passengers) will be created in contact with the temporary station.
This future station will house a 1,000-space relay car park, a bus station, 150 bicycle parking spaces (100 spaces with regulated access and 50 spaces on the forecourt) and a drop-off/return area.
The 3rd metro line between Colomiers and Labège will be 27 km long. It will pass through the Airbus factories, the future Toulouse Euro Sud Ouest district, around the Matabiau station, the Montaudran district and the Labège shopping center and the former Innopole, while making a three-kilometre loop through the northern suburbs of Toulouse.
The first tests of this 3rd metro line are scheduled for 2028.