Benjamin Peter (in Toulouse), edited by Wassila Belhacine
7:03 p.m., May 13, 2022modified to
7:10 p.m., May 13, 2022
This weekend, the largest urban cable car in France, Téléo, enters service in Toulouse. This cable car allows you to fly over the Garonne over a distance of three kilometers. It will connect the Paul-Sabatier University, the Toulouse University Hospital and the Oncopôle. Benjamin Peter, Europe 1 correspondent in Occitania, was able to experience it.
It enters service today in Toulouse. Téléo is the longest urban cable car in France. It should link the university to the Oncopôle on the former AZF site via the hospital. It offers a magnificent view of all of Toulouse and the Garonne, but above all adds to the city’s public transport. Benjamin Peter was able to try it yesterday during its inauguration.
“Seen from above, it’s magnificent, it’s only wonder”
The view is unprecedented and impresses the first users. Seeing the Garonne, and the whole city from above, impresses the inhabitants and above all it will save them time, especially for Myriam who works at the hospital. “Sometimes you have to wait 20 minutes to take the shuttle, so it’s better to take the cable car,” she says at the microphone of Europe 1.
A boon also for medical students like Maxime who until now lost a lot of time in transport to connect the university to the hospital. “Since I work on the other side at the Oncopôle, it will avoid having to take the car and go all the way around. It easily takes a quarter of an hour, twenty minutes by car, there in five minutes, you’re down.”
8,000 people per day to be transported
For Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse, the cable car will have a tourist attraction, but above all it comes in addition to the city’s public transport. “We are going to transport an average of 8,000 people every day, connected to the tracks, cycle paths, buses, metro line B, and all that it offers as a connection. So it’s not a gimmick, it’s a link within the framework of a public transport system.”
From this weekend, for the price of a metro ticket or even with their classic subscription, some 8,000 Toulouse residents will be able to board these cabins every day.
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