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The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is an international rail line under construction between the cities of Turin and Lyon, [1] [2] which is intended to link the Italian and French high-speed rail networks. [3] It will be 270 km (170 mi) long, of which over 100 km (62 mi) will be tunneled.
The three largest cities of Rhône-Alpes are equipped with streetcars and have a large bus network. The largest, Lyon, has four metro lines. Lyon and Saint-Étienne have kept their lines of trolley buses and, Saint-Etienne is one of the few cities in France to have retained its trams (in use since 1881).
Lyon Turin Ferroviaire (LTF), a subsidiary of Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) and Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), was the early developer of the joint French-Italian part of the future rail link between Lyon and Turin. It has now been replaced in that role by Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin (TELT), with the same staff and leadership.
GTT manages the urban and suburban public transport (the Turin tram system, with 10 lines, and bus network of about 110 lines), the Turin Metro and 3 railway lines (82 km, plus other 24 managed for Trenitalia). The Turin metropolitan area is also served by about 70 extra-urban bus lines, reaching 220 different municipalities .
The Transports en commun lyonnais (French pronunciation: [tʁɑ̃spɔʁ ɑ̃ kɔmœ̃ ljɔnɛ], "Lyon public transport" in French; usually referred to as TCL) is the Lyon public transport agency. It is the second largest public transport system in France (after Paris ), and covers 72 communes , including all 58 communes of the Metropolis of ...
10 September 2017: the SFM 3 line is extended to the French station of Modane , with 14 pairs of trains to and from Turin. On March 13, 2020, the SFM B line was eliminated, switching to 'SFR', the line is suspended until further notice. From September 14, 2020, it will be replaced by 6 pairs of buses from Monday to Saturday.
The Turin–Lyon line will connect Turin, Lyon and Chambéry, and join the Italian and the French high speed rail networks. It would take over the role of the current Fréjus railway . The project costs €26 billion, with the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel , a 57.5 km (35.7 mi) trans-alpine tunnel between Italy and France, costing €18.3 billion ...
In the same year, the Milan-Bologna line was open, reducing the journey time to 55 minutes. Also the Bologna-Florence high-speed line was upgraded to 300 km/h (186 mph) for a journey time of 35 minutes. Since then, it is possible to travel from Turin to Salerno (ca. 950 km (590 mi)) in less than five hours.