Greater Lyon, an area connected to the world
An international airport, two TGV high-speed train stations in the center of town, more than 200,000 m2 of exhibition space at the Cité Internationale, Eurexpo and Halle Tony Garnier, some of France's top universities, welcoming researchers and students from around the world...
- Lyon is a dynamic city that is open to and turned towards the world. Let yourself be carried away!
- In Lyon, priority is given to "sustainable transportation" (Vélo'v self-service bike-hire scheme, tramway, subway, bike paths). Let yourself be transported!
Lyon, connections
Accessibility, freedom and variety
Lyon encourages exchanges and opens its doors wide to the world:
- conveniently located on the route down to the Mediterranean,
- France's second largest airport zone,
- TGV high-speed train connections to Paris, Marseille, Geneva, London and Brussels.
Accessibility, freedom and variety are the key words for this growing metropolitan area that is already home to some 2.6 million people.
A large multimodal transportation hub
- an international airport,
- a business airport,
- 3 TGV train stations,
- 550 km of navigable waterways on the Rhône-Saône axis,
- a system of freeways providing easy access to Europe's largest cities...
Breathing space
Less than 2 hours from ski resorts of the Alps and less than 3 hours from the beaches of the Mediterranean, Lyon is ideally located for tourist outings and family weekends…
Sustainable transportation
In Lyon, sustainable transportation is no pipe dream. It was here that the concept of self-service bicycles was first tested and proven on a large scale.
Vélo’V bike-hire scheme
Three years after its creation, the Vélo'v bike-hire scheme already has:
- over 60,000 subscribers,
- 4,000 bikes and
- 343 stations.
Public transportation system
Combined with trains and bicycles, the city's public transportation system – its subway, tramway and trolleybuses – is a model of sustainable development. In particular, it seeks to facilitate access to the park-and-ride facilities located in the suburbs.
Optimum access to mass transportation
The city offers a dense, multi-hub transportation network: it covers all the towns in the Greater Lyon urban area and offers many connections with other modes of transportation, individual or collective.
With Leslys, the new non-stop express tram line, the Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport will be twenty-five minutes from downtown Lyon by 2011.
The public transportation system includes:
- 4 metro lines, including an automatic line;
- 3 tramway lines;
- 2 funicular railways;
- 120 bus and trolley lines;
- 343 Vélo’v self-service bicycle hire points offering 4,000 bicycles.
The world is never far away from Lyon (France)
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Lyon is the only major metropolitan area in France in which less than half of all trips into the city center are made by car.
Related file
- Attractiveness: magazine Lyon 2010 (PDF - 3.0 Mo)