The agglomerations of Thionville and Hayange will be linked in 2026 by a high-level service bus (BHNS) running on its own site and using electricity. Citézen, that’s its name, is a long-term project which, after six years of difficult gestation, is finally on track.
Two lines connecting Hayange to Basse-Ham and Metzange to Yutz and passing through the city center of Thionville and the SNCF train station, the nerve center of cross-border mobility, have required a complete rethinking of the local public transport plan.
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Commissioning scheduled for 2026
Work on this vast multimodal site will begin at the end of 2020 with the construction of a first engineering structure that will span the railways and the canal, then a second over the Moselle. Three relay car parks will complete the system as well as a new maintenance site where the 27 dedicated electric buses will transit.
Seven municipalities in the Thionville-Fensch agglomeration (Hayange, Serémange-Erzange, Florange, Terville, Thionville, Yutz and Basse-Ham) will be served by the BHNS and its 67 stations.
The choice of engine was mainly conditioned by the participation of the European Investment Bank, without which this € 200M project would not have been possible.
Commissioning is scheduled for 2026, two years earlier than the date initially chosen. A political effort that is part of a logic of sustainable mobility that has become more than ever one of the major challenges of this beginning of XXIe century.
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