Extension of line 1 of the Marseilles metro system

14 June 2010 - Events - France

The formal inauguration ceremony for the extension, by almost 2.5 km, between the La Timone station and the La Fourragère neighbourhood, of line 1 of the Marseilles metro took place on 5 May. Several Group companies had participated in the project. The civil engineering consortium, comprising GTM Sud (leader), Chantiers Modernes Sud and Campenon Bernard Méditerranée (subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France) and Dodin Campenon Bernard TP (VINCI Construction), was responsible for driving the 2.4 km single-tube tunnel, using a TBM, creating two stations, a car park and three ventilation shafts, and supplying the architectural fitting out works. Cegelec Transport (part of the Major Projects arm of Cegelec Global Systems & Services) and Cegelec Sud-Est (a Cegelec France subsidiary), Energy business line companies, undertook the upgrading of the existing stations’ power supply infrastructure and all the high-voltage works in connection with the extension. Eurovia Méditerranée-Marseille, as part of a consortium, supplied the surface works at the extension’s four stations and for a car park. The Major Projects office of ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires (Eurovia) supplied and assembled the railway installations: track, points, guide bars. Value of the works: €99m for VINCI Construction France; €15m for Cegelec; €12m for Eurovia and ETF-Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires.