The total cost of the project is 161 million Euros including 12.7 million Euros for the rolling stock. An opening gala took place in the evening of 21 November 2019 with the official ceremony and start of revenue service on 22 November 2019. The infrastructure works were launched in September 2019 and were finished only two years afterwards, in Summer 2019. The declaration to build the tram line was given in November 2016 with the „Déclaration d’utilité publique“ (Declaration of public necessity) published in January 2017. The public consultation for the line took place in February and March 2015. Construction of a new bus depot at Perrache train station.Extension of tram line T3 to Grand Stade (inaugurated in 2016).

Right-of-way lanes for trolleybus line C3.

The extension of metro line B to Hôpitaux Sud (2.4 km) – currently under construction.

SYTRAL is the local transport authority and has a strategy to reduce car utilization in Lyon and is investing 1.2 billion euros in its 2015-2020 plan which includes three major infrastructure projects, one being the construction of the tram line T6. With more than 140 metro, bus, tram, funicular and trolleybus lines, the Lyon transport network, which has 1.8 million trips each day, is the largest in France (after Ile de France, the Paris region).

The opening ceremony on 22 November 2019 I © Yvon Brument.

Line T6 is operated with seven Citadis 302 trams which used to run on line T4 previously I © Yvon Brument.

In addition, there is a seventh light-rail line called “Rhônexpress” which is a fast tram service between Part-Dieu train train station and Lyon’s airport St. With the sixth tram line the tram network now has a length of 73 km. Until now it had a length nearly 66 km of lines and handles more than 365,000 trips every day. Since the return of the tramway in the Lyon conurbation in 2001, the tramway network in Lyon has grown considerably. The south-eastern city of Lyon now joins this league as it inaugurated its sixth tram line on 22 November 2019. Paris has eight tram lines, but they are not connected.

Lyon opened its sixth tram line T6 on 21 and 22 November 2019 I © Yvon Brumentįor years, Strasbourg used to be only French city to operate a tram network with six lines.

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