Rennes metro

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Logo of the Métro Rennes

The Métro Rennes is the metro in the French city ​​of Rennes . In 2002 , the third automatic subway system of the Véhicule automatique léger (VAL) system in France went into operation.

prehistory

Tram car in front of the opera house. circa 1909

From 1897 to 1952, the Tramways électriques rennais (TER) operated a meter-gauge electric tram network . It consisted of five lines, initially 14.84 km in length with a length of 12.98 km and was expanded slightly in 1906. In 1948 the first line was replaced by an omnibus line, the last tram ran in Rennes on February 6, 1952.

As early as the 1960s, the reintroduction of the tram was considered, the plans were initially not pursued further due to the cramped conditions in the old town. In the 1980s, three transport systems were under discussion: trams ( reopened in Nantes in 1985 ), Métro léger of the VAL type ( in operation in Lille since 1983 ) and Mégabus (three-part double articulated bus ). After having had good experiences with the VAL system in Lille and Toulouse , it was decided to build such a metro in Rennes.

Line a

Métro Rennes map: red line a, green line b

The first Métro (line a) in Rennes, built and managed by Siemens Transportation Systems , is a north-south line between the endpoints JF Kennedy and La Poterie , which was opened on March 16, 2002. The entire metro project cost 2.942 billion francs, that is 449 million euros, and is embedded in a restructuring of the public transport system in the Rennes metropolitan region. Several parc relays ( park + ride spaces) were also built to link the metro with individual motorized transport .

Eight kilometers of the route are in the tunnel and one kilometer is on the surface. The average station distance is 611 meters, and all 15 stations are wheelchair accessible. The trains run Monday to Saturday from 5:15 am to 12:45 am and from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm every 2–4 minutes. On Sundays the subway does not run until 7.30 a.m., and the frequency is slightly reduced. The 16 two-car trains of the type VAL 208, which weigh 28 tons and are 26 meters long, can carry a maximum of 158 passengers (50 seats and 108 standing places). Currently, an average of 140,000 passengers per day use the 9.4 km long Métro; the original plan was based on only 77,000 passengers per day. Due to its great success, the line is to be extended in the south beyond the city limits to Rive du Blosnes station in the municipality of Chantepie .

Line b

A second automatic line (line b) has been built since 2014. This line will run from northeast to southwest, from Cesson-Sévigné ( Cesson-Viasilva station ) to Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande ( Saint-Jacques-Gaîté station ), leaving the urban area of ​​Rennes at both ends. It will have a total of 15 stations, crossing line a at Sainte-Anne and Gares stations . Commissioning is scheduled for December 21, 2020. Cityval vehicles from Siemens are to run on this line . In September 2018 one of the two-part new trains was presented at the InnoTrans in Berlin. Unlike the trains on line a, those on line b are tracked according to the Translohr system.

  • Ramp to Villejean-Université station

  • La Poterie - Le Blosne elevated railway section

  • Elevated railway section Pontchaillou - Anatole France

  • Construction of the elevated railway section La Poterie - Le Blosne

  • Pontchaillou station

  • CityVal double railcars

  • Translohr lane guidance system in a raised position on a Cityval railcar for the Métro Rennes

Web links

Commons : Métro Rennes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Christoph Groneck: Metros in France . 1st edition. Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936573-13-1 , p. 130 ff .

swell

  1. ↑ The Rennes Metro timetable ( Memento of October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF).
  2. ↑ a b Blickpunkt Tram 6/2018, p. 150.
  3. ↑ Rennes: La ligne B du métro sera mise en service le 21 decembre 2020. December 12, 2019, accessed on February 7, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ QUEL SYSTÈME POUR LA LIGNE b? (No longer available online.) Metro-rennes-metropole.fr, archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; Retrieved July 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metro-rennes-metropole.fr