Subway of Rouen

Rouen is the one of smallest French agglomerations with being equipped with a Métro . It is more exactly about a Prémétro or Light subway in the form of a Tramway, underground only in the center-bank-right-hand side.

After Lyon in 1974, Marseilles in 1977, Lille in 1983 and Toulouse in 1993, it is in December 1994 which the agglomeration is equipped with a subway contrary at other French big cities which gave up their projects such as Bordeaux, Nantes, Strasbourg, Nice, Grenoble, Caen or Orleans which chose to establish trams on the surface, which allows, for the same expenditure, to establish a network more developed.

Chronology

See also: Old tram of Rouen

  • 1991 : beginning of work for the construction of new a Tram, underground of center bank-right-hand side town and surfaces some 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 the Seine in two lines bound for Saint-Etienne-of-Rouvray the and from the Grand-Quevilly.
  • 1994 : the December 17th: inauguration of the subway of Rouen known as Métrobus , line by Y connecting the place of Boulingrin (Rouen Right Bank) to the Grand-Quevilly (left bank) and to Sotteville-the-Rouen (left bank).
  • 1997 : extension of the subway until the Technopolis of Madrillet to Saint-Etienne-of-Rouvray the with inauguration of the station Law courts in full heart of the city.

Current network

Valid data in 2005:

  • Subway : 2 lines, adding up 2,2 km of underground portions and 15 km of ways on the surface. 31 stations, including 5 underground. Rolling stock is composed of 28 oars GEC-Alstom type French Tramway standard (TFS) long of 29 Mr.

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