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commenced in mid-2012 and will be completed in 2015, will take the line north to Les Aubius where the exhibition centre is located and the new La Jallère depot is being built which will include a new APS test track. Construction on the second phase will start in 2015 and conclude in 2018 and extend the line south through Bègles to Villehave d’Ornon.
Steady investment in the light rail system in the past 15 years has established Bordeaux as arguably the pioneer of France’s modern tram revolution.
In addition, work began in 2012 on a new 7km, six-station tram-train line as part of the third phase and is also scheduled to be completed by 2015. The du Médoc Line, or Line F, will use Line C infrastructure in the city centre to Cracovie, where a short section of new track will be laid to Gare St Louis. From here the line will use mainline tracks north to the proposed terminus at Blanquefort.
The tram-train service will utilise mainline signalling as well as line-of- sight which is used on the tram network and operate at a maximum speed of 70km/h on mainline infrastructure, 10km/h faster than the light rail network. Inevitably additional rolling stock is
required to serve the extensions. Alstom is again delivering Citadis 402s for phase 3 of the project, and the first of 26 additional trams which will be used on lines A, B and C arrived in March. Four vehicles are currently being delivered per month and they will expand the fleet to 90 LRVs when delivery concludes in March 2014.
Phase 3bis
The extra LRVs will also enable a huge increase in the frequency of services. This is a major element of Phase 3bis of the network development programme which began this year and will last up to 2018. Systra again secured a contract for this element in January as the lead partner in the Tisya consortium which also consists of Ingerop, Artelia, ECCTA and BLP/Signes Paysage. The group is
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currently studying how to reduce headways from their current peak minimum of four minutes to 2.5 minutes.
Mr Gilles Parmentier, systems manager at Tisya, the principal contractor working with Systra and three other partners on Phase 3bis, says additional tracks will be added to the existing lines to boost capacity through the city centre. Work will also take place to improve the integration of the tram network with other transport modes. The extensions are gradually connecting the city’s five mainline stations while bus links are increasingly being coordinated to the tram schedule. Bicycle paths and a pedestrian scheme have also been introduced and will be expanded under the improvements, while 14 park-and-ride stations are planned. Parmentier says park-and-ride has already proven extremely popular with Bordeaux citizens and is a major contributor to reducing city centre traffic, particularly during the morning commute and at weekends. Mr Philippe Petit, Systra’s director for the southwest region of France, who is leading the work in Bordeaux, says one
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