Public transport rouennais

Public transport rouennais .

The agglomeration rouennaise presents two principal geographical difficulties for the construction and the exploitation of a joint grid system:

  • the crossing of the the Seine, which was always carried out by dividing the roadway of the bridges built for the motor vehicle traffic.
  • the presence, on Right Bank, of important rises requiring in the rather sloping ways, which can handicap the development of the conventional rail-bound transport. Rouen, in the past, tried out the Funiculaire, and a project of urban cable car was even evoked before the construction of the network of bus in exclusive right of way. The new railway station will be soon on left bank in Saint-Sever, near the Clemenceau course.
Following the example other French cities, Rouen was quickly equipped with a network of Tramway, which she then forsook with the profit of the Trolleybus then of the Autobus, before reintroducing the urban rail-bound transport at the end of the 20th century, in the form of a light Métro.

Chronology

See also: Old tram of Rouen

  • 1782 : public service of cars with Cheval which serve the town of Rouen. Exploitation suspended during the Revolution.
  • towards 1818: connections of suburbs bound for Maromme and Darnétal
  • 1855: creation of the General Company of the Slow trains " Rouennaises" , always in animal haulage.
  • 1874 : launching of the project of tram with vapor by the British Gustav Micrometer caliper Harding.
  • December 29th 1877: Beginning of the exploitation of the Tram S, on 26 km of lines.
  • September 11th 1878: Creation of the Company of the Trams of Rouen .
  • 1884 : abandonment of the steam traction, expensive and ineffective. The trams are henceforth drawn by horses.
  • June 19th 1892: inauguration of a Funicular between Rouen and Bonsecours.
  • 1894 : decision to pass to the electric traction for the trams.
  • 1895 : creation of an additional network of tram, the General Company of Traction , to exploit lines with direction of Bapeaume, Amfreville-the-Semi-Way and Bihorel.
  • March 22nd 1896: inauguration of the network of trams electrified of the C.T.R, at the time of the colonial exposure organized to Rouen.
  • 1899 : a tram line is inaugurated between Rouen and Bonsecours, exploited by the Compagnie of the Tram of Bonsecours .
  • 1900 : the network of the trams rouennais includes/understands 38 km of lines.
  • 1905 : Wood-Guillaume is served by " car omnibus" with oil.
  • 1906 : on left bank, creation of one tram line to the transitory existence, between Trianon and the forest of Rouvray. Stop of the exploitation at the end of 1908.
  • 1910: fusion of the C.G.T and the Company of the Tram of Bonsecours within the C.T.R.
  • 1912: extension of the tram until Wood-Guillaume.
  • 1915 : opening of the last line of the network of tram, between Rouen and Grand-Quevilly, in order to connect the military camps to the center town.
  • November 30th 1921: set fire to deposit of the trams of Trianon.
  • August 11th 1927: first line of Bus between the Beauvoisine place and the Cemetery of North.
  • 1930 : first removal of a tram line to the profit of the bus bound for Our-Lady-with-Bondeville.
  • 1933 : first experimentation of the Trolley bus in the agglomeration.
  • 1937 : line of trolley bus bound for Mount-Saint-Aignan.
  • June 9th 1940: interruption of the crossing of the Seine, until the April 20th 1946.
  • 1948 : replacement of the tram line towards Amfreville by the bus.
  • February 28th 1953: removal of the last line of the old network of tram.
  • 1970 : removal of the last line of trolley bus.
  • 1971 : introduction of the buses Saviem SC 10. Exploitation of the lines with only one agent by vehicle.
  • 1974 : 139 km of lines of bus. Creation of SIVOM (Intercommunity association with Multiple Vocations) for redévelopper public transport of the agglomeration rouennaise.
  • 1977 : the network of bus is extended to 186 km. Creation of TCAR (Public transport of the Rouennaise Agglomeration) starting from the CTR and of the CGFTE (French General Company of Transport and Company).
  • 1981 : introduction of the articulated buses Heuliez, greater capacity.
  • 1991 : beginning of work for the construction of a new tram, underground of center town on Right Bank and on the surface on left bank. Rolling stock is of light subway type. This network will be baptized Métrobus . A single section on Right Bank separates in the south from the Seine in two lines bound for Saint-Etienne-of-Rouvray the and from the Grand-Quevilly.
  • December 17th 1994: inauguration of the Métro of Rouen says Métrobus. Although it approaches a tram technically, rouennais them take the practice to call Métro their new means of transport.
  • 1997 : extension of the subway to the university pole of the Madrillet.
  • 2001 : inauguration of the first line of the TEOR (East-West Transport Rouennais), which comes to supplement the subway. This network of bus of new generation, with guidance system and of accosting, will circulate on 46 km of clean lines of sight.
  • 2002 : inauguration of the first section of LISOR (Fast South-western connection) on southern bank between Grand-Quevilly and Large-Crown.
  • 2007 : inauguration of TEOR until Darnetal and Top-of-Rouen

Current network

See also: Subway of Rouen

Valid data in 2005:

  • Subway : 2 lines, adding up 2,2 km of underground portions and 13,5 km of ways on the surface. 31 stations, including 5 underground. Rolling stock is composed of 28 long oars GEC Alstom of 29 Mr.

  • TEOR : 3 lines adding up 26 km and 41 stations. The material includes/understands 38 buses Agora, equipped with an optical guidance to the approach of the stations. The vehicles, long, 17,8 m have a capacity of 110 places including 40 sitted.
  • conventional Bus : 34 lines adding up 460 km, covering the whole of the agglomeration. Park of 220 buses. The most modern vehicles function with the Diester resulting from the oil of Colza.

The network of the TCAR transported 40,611 million travellers in 2004, of which 18,198 million borrowed a conventional bus, 15,250 million the subway and 7,163 million the TEOR.

See too

  • Association of users of public transport in Rouen

External bonds

  • site of the TCAR
  • Jean-Luc Bayeux, Public transport in the agglomeration rouennaise , 26, collection history (S) of agglo, Agglomeration of Rouen, 2003

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