Syndicat mixed des Transports pour le Rhône et l'Agglomération Lyonnaise

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The Syndicat Mixte des Transports pour le Rhône et l'Agglomération Lyonnaise (abbreviated SYTRAL , German roughly Verkehrsverbund Rhône-Lyon , until 1985 Syndicat des Transports en Commun de la Région Lyonnaise (TCRL) ) is the transport association of Greater Lyon in eastern France . He is responsible for the financing, planning and organization of local public transport in the region.

organization

From a legal point of view, SYTRAL is an Autorité organisatrice de transport urbain (AOTU), a special purpose association for transport matters . In order to finance the transport services, it may both demand contributions from its member communities and levy the versement transport (transport tax ) . Since 2003 this has been 1.75%, the current maximum rate.

The SYTRAL is the owner of all operating systems and vehicles in the network. It carries out network and route planning, sets fares and quality standards and puts out the transport services every six years. These are then always provided by private transport companies. The sole current service provider is Keolis Lyon , a subsidiary of the French transport group Keolis . However, there is no real competition in these tenders , which is apparently politically wanted.

SYTRAL's financial budget for 2010 provides for expenditures totaling 684 million euros. Operating costs account for almost half of this; a further 29% are earmarked for new acquisitions, 21% flow into debt servicing. 24% of the financing is provided through ticket sales; the Versement Transport contributes 36%, the contributions of the municipalities and the département a further 21%. The remaining 141.3 million euros will be financed through loans.

The highest decision-making body of SYTRAL is the 26-member association board (comité syndical) . It meets every six weeks and defines the main lines of business policy. Of the total of 26 members, 16 are sent by the Greater Lyon Association, the remaining ten are elected by the General Council (conseil général) of the Rhône department . The executive office (bureau exécutif) is responsible for day-to-day business. It consists of eight members of the board of directors and meets accordingly more frequently. The administration, which comprises 85 people, is responsible for executing the resolutions.

history

The SYTRAL goes back to a communal "community of convenience" from 1941. At that time, the local tram monopoly OTL no longer wanted to continue the concession to operate the lines because its vehicles were worn out and the operation brought constant losses. The affected cities and municipalities then acquired the operating facilities and vehicles from OTL, which in turn leased them back for an initial period of 25 years. As the competent intercommunal steering committee for this was Syndicat des Transports en Commun de la Région Lyonnaise (TCRL) furnished.

The TCRL took care of the necessary deficit compensation and actually took over the complete planning sovereignty over the local public transport in the region. The TCRL was a unique institution for France and actually illegal, because municipal special-purpose associations were not allowed in France at the time. Officially, the building administration (Service des Ponts & Chausées) of the département always appeared at this point ; she signed contracts and paid for household services. The TCRL only officially existed when the Greater Lyon Association was created by law in 1969 ; he took over the role of the traffic department within the Zweckverband.

The route network was modernized in the post-war years. The trams were shut down until 1957 and operations were switched entirely to buses and trolleybuses. At the end of the 1950s, the Lyon region had one of the largest trolleybus networks in Western Europe with 344 vehicles.

Heavy immigration and increasing traffic volumes finally led to the construction of the Lyon Métro . It went into operation in 1978 and was the focus of all activities of the association in the following two decades. However, the expansion came to a standstill in the late 1990s due to financial problems. In 1996 the decision was made to run trams again instead of the planned further metro lines. The first two lines went into operation at the end of 2000.

In 1985 the syndicate of the TCRL was given its current name SYTRAL .

Network area and means of transport

The catchment area of ​​the SYTRAL consists of 64 communities with a total of 613 km² and over 1.3 million inhabitants. The network comprises (2008) four underground lines , four tram lines , two funicular railways , seven trolleybus routes and 115 city ​​bus routes . In 2008 the SYTRAL counted an average of 1,235,400 passengers per day, which translates into around 451 million per year.

All means of transport are operated under the common umbrella brand Transports en Commun Lyonnais (TCL) . The subway operates under the name TCL Métro , the tram as TCL Tram and the trolleybus and bus lines as TCL Bus . The regional network Transports Express Régionaux (TER) of the SNCF and the Rhônexpress to Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport are not integrated into the network .

The name TCL goes back to the former tram operator OTL. The Compagnie des Omnibus et Tramways de Lyon (OTL) was renamed Société des Transports en Commun Lyonnais (TCL) in 1967 . After the tram was discontinued, she wanted to erase the corresponding designation from her name. In 1976 the TCRL and later SYTRAL then took over the naming rights from the TCL.

The TCL then renamed itself once more to Société Lyonnais des Transports en Commun (SLTC) . SLTC has been part of the Keolis Group since 2005 and operates under the name Keolis Lyon .

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  1. ↑ An Autorité organisatrice de transport urbain (AOTU) is a special form of the Autorité organisatrice de transports (AOT) for metropolitan areas (urbain) . An AOT, in turn, is comparable to a special purpose association, i.e. a corporation under public law that performs tasks in the field of transport. According to the law, an AOTU has the right to collect the versement transport within the catchment area in addition to the contributions of the member communities , note d. Author
  2. ↑ LETTRE CIRCULAIRE N ° 2002-218. (PDF; 167 kB) Direction de la Reglementation du Recouvrement et du Service Dirres, November 26, 2002, accessed on March 4, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b see also Christoph Groneck: New trams in France: The return of an urban means of transport . Ek-Verlag, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-88255-844-9 .
  4. ↑ a b c TCL, un réseau pas comme les autres. (No longer available online.) Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon , October 25, 2007, archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; Retrieved March 4, 2010 . 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.pointsdactu.org
  5. ^ René Waldmann: La Grande Traboule . Ed. Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, Lyon 1991, ISBN 2-905230-49-5 , pp. 47 f .
  6. ^ René Waldmann: La Grande Traboule . Ed. Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, Lyon 1991, ISBN 2-905230-49-5 , pp. 100 .
  7. ^ A b René Waldmann: Les Charmes de Maggaly. Ed. Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Historie, Lyon 1993, ISBN 2-905230-95-2 , p. 146f.
  8. ↑ TCL Chiffres clés. (No longer available online.) Keolis Lyon, archived from the original on January 27, 2012 ; Retrieved March 3, 2010 . 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.tcl.fr
  9. ^ René Waldmann: La Grande Traboule . Ed. Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, Lyon 1991, ISBN 2-905230-49-5 , pp. 98 .