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Part-Dieu station is an unique example of the construction of a great railway passengers station in the occidental world. It is born as a necessity of modern equipment to desserve the new track of high speed beetween Paris and Lyon : the T.G.V. But it is become by the way of a very modern spirit of management a decisive element of the Central Business District of Lyons. Its architecture, original, makes it at one and the same time, an urban « signal », a bond beetwen two quarters separated from long time and a service center. May be it shall play a regional role in the railway network of the whole agglomeration.

The aim of the TGV is not to serve the regions it crosses between Paris and Lyon. Two stations have however been set up in Le Creusot and Mâcon. The authors wonder about the way these stations will be connected with the non-TGV network (rail connections), about the towns they serve (town-station links), and about their roles as centres of coach-networks. They observe that the newly created stations have not been given all the means to be totally efficient.