Until 2023, the Angers tram will bypass the historic center.
© Thierry Bonnet / Angers Loire Métropole
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During the next two years, the “rainbow tram” in Angers will no longer cross the historic city center via the route opened in June 2011. Since January 4, line A of the Angers Loire Métropole network takes a new section of more than a kilometer on the boulevards, between Saint-Serge University and Foch / Maison-Bleue. Three stations are served on the new route: Saint-Serge / Université, repositioned on Boulevard Ayrault, while two new stops have been created, near the Convention Center and the Town Hall. This diversion of line A, after two years of work, is the first step in the overhaul of the Angevin network, which should see the commissioning of lines B and C in 2023. It is then that the trams of line C will be able to take the 2011 section via places du Ralliement and Molière, the stop serving this second place having to be moved. In the meantime, the Baladine d’Irigo electric shuttle (RATP Dev) runs free of charge between Place Molière, Place du Ralliement and Foch / Maison-Bleue station, from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on weekends.
P. L.
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