Public Transit in Lyon

June 13, 2017

When we arrived in Lyon, CEFAM provided each student with a MetroCard that would allow us to have unlimited subway and bus rides for the whole month. This card comes in handy every day because we have to take the metro to get to school. Every day I meet my friends in the lobby and we walk two blocks to the metro stop. We have to change trains halfway through, but altogether the trip is about 20 minutes and it brings us within a block of the campus. The public transportation is really easy to use and figure out. It is similar to the T in Boston, with different colored lines and the continuous trains, but is a bit simpler. The trains run about every 4 minutes and are all very clean. Our cards also work for busses, which I have not taken, as well as the funicular. I forget how many funiculars we were told are in Lyon, but I have been on one in Paris and its basically an elevator to bring people up hills. Overall I think the public transit system here is really good, however it was an adjustment at first because I had to pay really close attention to all of the stops as I could not understand the announcements.

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Jillian Barnabe

I am a student in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and I plan to graduate in 2021. I chose to study abroad with this program as I felt it would teach me a lot about how to live on my own and be independent as well as how to adapt to cultural changes. I have always loved the French language as I studied it for many years in high school, so I though this would be a great opportunity for me to further my knowledge of the language and culture while earning credit toward my business degree. I am looking forward to living in Europe and traveling to different countries on the weekends and I hope to gain a lot of both business and real world knowledge from this program. I hope to do a lot of sightseeing while I am not in class as I have a strong passion for photography, and I cant wait to try all of the new foods in the places I will visit!