The LINO (North West Intercommunal Link) project undertaken by the Lille Urban Community is an example of integrated design for road infrastructures in the urban environment: the project initially consisted in a 2 X 2-lane ring-road (20 km). Faced with opposition, only a two-kilometre section was created. From the year 2000, after three years of studies, this 120 million euro (net) project was completely redesigned, with only half of the land take assigned to road traffic, the remaining portion being assigned toother methods of transport (ring-road bus route and cyclist lanes) and toqualitative improvements. A traffic calming programme for existing roads in the vicinity will be implemented in conjunction with the LINO project, in order to structure the road network. The project also includes an interchange with the inter-urban network (motorway A25). At present, the LINO can be summarised as follows: 10 km of new public roads and 8 km of re-developed public roads, but first and foremost: 36 kilometres of calm public roads, 13.5 km of cyclist lanes, 18 km of ring-road bus lanes, 28 km of roadside trees and 420 hectares of accessible land for urban renewal. For thecovering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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