Vaise

Vaise is a district of Lyon, located in edge of the Saone, with the foot of the plate of Duchère, in the North-West of the city.

Old common of the department of the the Rhone, Vaise was attached to Lyon the March 24th 1852, to form part of the 5th district. Vaise then was attached to the 9th district during its creation, the August 12th 1964.

Ideally located on a projecting ledge between the Mounts of Gold and the hills of the Lyons West (see Fourvière), just at the entry of a procession on the Saone, Vaise is inhabited since the prehistoric time. At the time Roman, a aqueduct bringing water to Fourvière circumvented the depression of Vaise on the side of Écully. With the Middle Ages, Vaise was a stage on the river navigation on the Saone; the port of Vaise remained active until the XX century beginning. The main roads of circulation coming from Paris quite naturally ended in Vaise: the national 6 and 7 met there after having crossed one the Morvan and the other the Bourbonnais. Lastly, the company PLM establishes in Vaise a kind of appendix of Perrache: the place being more important there, a station goods and garages, lack with Perrache, were installed there.

Vaise, suburb popular and industrial, was badly connected to the city. The access to Lyon was done by a small road skirting the Saone with the foot of the hill of Sarra to the narrow door of Pierre Scize, where the sovereigns were accommodated, and simple controlled subjects. On the Saone, chains limited the passage of the boats. It is only at the XXe century that the connections between Vaise and Lyon became sufficient so that Vaise is integrated finally into the city.

Vaise is connected today to the center town by the ways of the quays of the Saone, by the road tunnel under Cross-Russet-red the, by two railway tunnels, and, since 1991, by the line D of the subway.

The '' multimode pole '' of Vaise establishes connection between the lines of urban buses of the suburbs North and West, the line D of the subway, and the railway lines of Perrache to Villefranche and Arbresle.

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