With this new equipment, inaugurated on Tuesday September 20, three out of four Rennais are now less than 600 meters from a metro station.
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They came early this Tuesday, September 20, to attend the start -up of line B of the Rennes metro. On the quay of the Saint-Jacques-Gaîté station, Françoise and Alain Demorez observe the round trips of the trains as if it were a merry-go-round. Every two minutes and fifteen seconds, the ATMs of the Cityval open and then swallow dozens of active and students. The septuagenarians are surprised: “Move in Rennes seems so simple. We are witnessing, today, the culmination of a titanic site initiated twenty years ago. Who would have believed that a city like Rennes could enjoy such installations? “
The Breton capital, which lists 220,000 inhabitants – and 450,000 in the agglomeration – is now established as the smallest city in the world equipped with two metro lines. The news, the site of which cost 1.3 billion euros, therefore circulates for 14 kilometers from the southwest to the northeast of the city and twice crosses line A, in activity since 2002.
Three out of four Rennes now live less than 600 meters from a metro station. Some 110,000 daily travelers are expected in the trains of line B. Every day, 250,000 transport titles should be composted in the Rennais metro. “The new line is a major infrastructure that will revolutionize the city. Rennes enters another dimension,” enthuses Nathalie Appéré, mayor (Socialist Party) of Rennes and president of Rennes Métropole. By his side during the inauguration, the ecologist Matthieu Theurier, vice-president in charge of transport in Rennes Métropole. M Appéré defends line B of the metro as the keystone of its decarbonized transport policy aimed at limiting the place of the car in town. This strategy has earned him a number of criticism in recent years. This Tuesday, the use of the metro rather than that of the car is essential as the main subject of discussion in the wagons.
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Enthusiastic after a first trip to line B, Arthur Le Glanic, educator in the local rugby club, announces: “The metro will change my daily life. Sometimes I had to drive an hour to go to work. From now on, I Can go there in fifteen minutes. I will think about selling my car. “Especially since the young man is also a student. The campuses and the majority of the city’s secondary schools are now served by the metro.
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