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The Urban Community of Lille Métropole (French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
: Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine
Communauté urbaine

In France, urban communities are the most integrated form of commune in France#intercommunality in France. An urban community is composed of a communes in France and its independent suburbs....
) is the intercommunal structure gathering the commune of Lille
Lille

Lille is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Urban Community of Lille M?tropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille....
 and that part of the Lille metropolitan area that lies in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

The goal of the Urban Community is to build a better metropolitan area by synchronizing the health system, transport system, environmental actions, etc.

Urban Community was founded in 1967, its first president was Augustin Laurent.






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The Urban Community of Lille Métropole (French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
: Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine
Communauté urbaine

In France, urban communities are the most integrated form of commune in France#intercommunality in France. An urban community is composed of a communes in France and its independent suburbs....
) is the intercommunal structure gathering the commune of Lille
Lille

Lille is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Urban Community of Lille M?tropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille....
 and that part of the Lille metropolitan area that lies in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

The goal of the Urban Community is to build a better metropolitan area by synchronizing the health system, transport system, environmental actions, etc.

History

The Urban Community was founded in 1967, its first president was Augustin Laurent. Then, in 1971, Arthur Notebart, Deputy Mayor of Lomme succeeded him until the election of Pierre Mauroy in 1989. After the March 2008 municipal elections, each city council will send delegates to the urban community, a total of 170 voting members. In April 2008, the new president will be elected on a majority vote defined at 816 votes. It will be a cause for intense lobbying throughout the 85 cities and villages. One key issue will be on the investment priorities for the 2008/2014 period, namely Transport, Housing and the Environnement. Newly re-elected mayor of Lille, socialist Martine Aubry
Martine Aubry

Martine Aubry is a France politician. She has been the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party since November 2008 and Mayor of Lille since March 2001, and is considered a possible candidate for President of France in 2012....
, will try to impose a new 800m euro stadium in the eastern part of the community, which is opposed by three major mayors of her own party, who consider the project as misplaced and too expensive.

Responsibilities


Local public transport

The urban community is responsible for the co-ordination of Transpole, the private sector company that operates a public transport network throughout the Métropole. The network comprises bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
es, tram
Tram

A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
s and a driverless metro
Rapid transit

A rapid transit, subway, underground, elevated railway or metro system is an railway electrification system public transport rail transport in an urban area with high capacity and frequency, and which is grade separation from other traffic....
 system, all of which are operated under the Transpole name. The Lille Metro
Lille Metro

The Lille Metro is a driverless rapid transit in and around Lille, France. The system was inaugurated on 25 April 1983 and was the first to use VAL system....
 is a VAL
VAL

VAL is a type of automatic rubber-tired metro people mover technology, based on an invention by Professor Robert Gabillard . It was designed in the early 1980s by France Matra, for the then new metro system in Lille....
 system (véhicule automatique léger = light automated vehicle) that opened on May 16, 1983, becoming the first automatic metro line in the world. The metro system has two lines, with a total length of 45km and 60 stations. The tram system consists of two interurban tram lines, connecting central Lille to the nearby communities of Roubaix
Roubaix

Roubaix is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.It is located near the cities of Lille and Tourcoing and the Belgium border....
 and Tourcoing
Tourcoing

Tourcoing is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.It is located near the cities of Lille and Roubaix and the Belgium border....
, and has 45 stops. 68 urban bus routes cover the metropolis, 8 of which reach into Belgium.

Cross-border issues

The Urban Community of Lille Métropole encompasses only the French part of the metropolitan area of Lille. The other part of the metropolitan area is on Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 territory (Mouscron
Mouscron

Mouscron is a Wallonia city and Municipalities in Belgium located in the Belgium Provinces of Belgium of Hainaut . The Mouscron municipality includes the old communes of Dottignies , Luingne, and Herseaux ....
, Kortrijk
Kortrijk

Kortrijk is a Belgium city and Municipalities in Belgium located in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium West Flanders. The wider municipality comprises the city of Kortrijk proper and the towns of Aalbeke, Bellegem, Bissegem, Heule, Kooigem, Marke , and Rollegem....
,Ypres
Ypres

Ypres , Ieper , or Ypern is a Belgium Municipalities in Belgium located in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders....
, Roeselare
Roeselare

Roeselare is a Belgium city and Municipalities in Belgium in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Roeselare proper and the towns of Beveren , Oekene and Rumbeke....
, etc.) and outside of the scope of the Urban Community. There are currently some projects to establish an Urban Community for the whole metropolitan area, crossing borders, but this transnational structure has not been created yet.

Communes

The 85 communes of the Urban Community are:

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