Metro

VAL, Lille's rubber-tired, fully automated metro by Matra Transport International (now Siemens), is a two-line 45 km system which opened in 1983.  In 1989, Line 2 reached C.H, Dron, a French town on the Belgian border. Approximately one third of the system is underground. No extensions or additional lines of the 4-line planned system have opened since then, although there are plans to extend it into Belgian airspace, and new vehicles are expected in 2009.

Youtube ride on Line 1

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Light Rail

Lille is one of the three French cities to have kept its original tramway lines, called "Mongy", whose 19 km Y-branched alignment serves 36 stations connecting Lille to Roubaix and Tourcoing.

The total renovation of the line was authorized in 1989. This modernization project was to be executed while keeping the line in operation; it consisted of the renewal of 40 km of single track and the replacement of existing platforms and stations, the transfer of the Lille terminal to ensure a connection with the AGT (Automatic Guided Transit) and the TGV Nord lines, and the installation of a train control center as well as a remote control autonomous electric traction power supply system.

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