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Steven asked in TravelFranceOther - France · 10 years ago

What is the public transportation like in Lyon France?

This fall I will be on exchange to study abroad in Lyon France. The only thing is that my host family lives in Charbonnie-les-Bains. So it takes about half an hour using the bus system to get to Lyon then the metro to get to the university. I have tried getting some info online, but it is difficult to look for it. Especially when considering that my french is tres mal. Being so far away how difficult will it be traveling on the weekend or coming back home on a weekend night? In other words, how late does the bus and metro stay open till? I would hate to be out on the city on a friday night, then on my way back home realize that everything is closed and then have to tred across the city for two hours.

I would be open to riding a bike, but walking takes more than two hours. That being I would assume riding a bike to the city will at the very least take one hour.

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  • 10 years ago
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    The public transport in Lyon is excellent and the metro runs late into the night. There are trains, trams, trolley buses and buses as well . You can check it out on this map:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lyon_-_transport...

    or here:http://69260.fr/

    Friday night is a normal evening in France and, anyhow, Charbonnières-les-Bains is not a small deserted village. It is only ten kilometres north-west of Lyon centre and if the worse came to the worst you could hitch a lift. You do not say how old you are but out of decency for your host family and not to cause them concern, you should aspire to be home not much later than midnight. Bear in mind that it is now illegal to serve alcohol to under 18s, and nightclubs will not admit you if you are a minor, so there is a limit to what you can do, especially if your French is not very good. Even if you are above 18, pub crawls and the kind of drunken disco scene common in the UK are not part of French culture and very much frowned upon.

    Source(s): Lecturer at the university
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    4 years ago

    Mt Buller is a ski hotel. they do no longer placed buses on for human beings to get there till there is a few snow for human beings to ski on. The ski season starts the Queen's Birthday lengthy weekend in June and that is even as public shipping (under no circumstances transportation in Australia , by technique of ways) starts.

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