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LYON'S URBAN DEVELOPMENT
by the PDU 2005 have been completed or
are in the process of being completed. Be-
tween 2005 and 2012, road trafc within
the downtown decreased 13 percent.
Nearly 20 years ago, Lyon chose elec-
trical power with its metros, trams and
trolleybuses. Rivalta said the system is the
biggest electricity consumer in the metro-
politan area with 70 percent of the service
being operated by electric power.
To deter cars from entering the metro-
politan area, SYTRAL built park-and-ride
facilities and now owns more than 7,000
parking spaces which lets people leave
their cars if they have public transport
passes or tickets. "Tis encourages them
to use our system in the dense part of the
metropolitan area.
"Where the car was king, there is now
public transport, bike lanes, pavements
and pedestrians.
"All over the world, public transport is
being asked to create the new face of cities,"
Rivalta said. "We are visited by more than
100 delegations a year and I think this is
because we have succeeded in establishing
a new model of urban development and of
public transport management, which is why
we are now defnitely one of the top per-
forming systems in France and Europe."
Conversions: 1 hectare = 2.47105 acres, 1 km
2
= .386102 mile
2
, 1€ = $1.27, 1 km = .621371
mile, 1 Km/hour = .621371 miles/hour, 1
meter = 3.28084 feet
LAYING OF rails in the Gerland Stadium
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