Urban Community of Lille Métropole

{{French communate | nom=Lille Métropole
Communauté urbaine | logo=[[Image:LMCU4.jpg|290px|center|Logo]] | images=[[Image:LMCU3.jpg|290px|Map of the métropole]] | rég=[[Nord-Pas de Calais]] | dépt=[[Nord (département)|Nord]] | création=December 22, 1967 | nbcomm=85 | siège=[[Lille]] | prés=[[Martine Aubry]] | party=[[Socialist Party (France)|PS]] | mandat=2008-present | pop=1,091,438
(19.5% in the city of [[Lille]]) | datepop=[[1999]] | superf=611.45 | hectares=61,145 | dens=1,785 | budget=1,441 Millions € (2006) | budgetsource=¹ | siteweb=[http://www.lillemetropole.fr Lille Métropole]
[http://www.communautes-urbaines.com/ Communautés Urbaines] | footnotes=¹ [http://www.lillemetropole.fr/index.php?p=238&art_id=10987 Source for the budget] |}} The '''Urban Community of Lille Métropole''' ([[French language|French]]: ''Lille Métropole [[Communauté urbaine|Communauté Urbaine]]'') is the [[Communes in France#Intercommunality|intercommunal]] structure gathering the [[Commune in France|commune]] of [[Lille]] and that part of the Lille metropolitan area that lies in [[France]]. The goal of the Urban Community is to build a better metropolitan area by synchronizing the 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]], 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. ===Local public transport=== {{main|Transpole}} 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]]es, [[tram]]s and a driverless [[rapid transit|metro]] system, all of which are operated under the Transpole name. The [[Lille Metro]] is a [[Véhicule Automatique Léger|VAL]] 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]] and [[Tourcoing]], 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 [[Belgium|Belgian]] territory ([[Mouscron]], [[Kortrijk]], [[Ypres]], [[Roeselare]], 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: {| border="0" |----- valign="top" | width="220" | *[[Anstaing]] *[[Armentières]] *[[Baisieux]] *[[La Bassée]] *[[Beaucamps-Ligny]] *[[Bondues]] *[[Bousbecque]] *[[Bouvines]] *[[Capinghem]] *[[La Chapelle-d'Armentières]] *[[Chéreng]] *[[Comines, Nord|Comines]] *[[Croix, Nord|Croix]] *[[Deûlémont]] *[[Don, Nord|Don]] *[[Emmerin]] *[[Englos]] *[[Ennetières-en-Weppes]] *[[Erquinghem-le-Sec]] *[[Erquinghem-Lys]] *[[Escobecques]] *[[Fâches-Thumesnil]] *[[Forest-sur-Marque]] *[[Fournes-en-Weppes]] *[[Frelinghien]] *[[Fretin]] *[[Gruson]] *[[Hallennes-lez-Haubourdin]] *[[Halluin]] | width="220" | *[[Hantay]] *[[Haubourdin]] *[[Hem, Nord|Hem]] *[[Herlies]] *[[Houplin-Ancoisne]] *[[Houplines]] *[[Illies, Nord|Illies]] *[[Lambersart]] *[[Lannoy, Nord|Lannoy]] *[[Leers]] *[[Lesquin]] *[[Lezennes]] *[[Lille]] ''(includes the [[Associated communes of France|associate-communes]] of [[Hellemmes]] and [[Lomme]])'' *[[Linselles]] *[[Lompret]] *[[Loos, Nord|Loos]] *[[Lys-lez-Lannoy]] *[[La Madeleine, Nord|La Madeleine]] *[[Marcq-en-Barœul]] *[[Marquette-lez-Lille]] *[[Marquillies]] *[[Mons-en-Barœul]] *[[Mouvaux]] *[[Neuville-en-Ferrain]] *[[Noyelles-lès-Seclin]] *[[Pérenchies]] *[[Péronne-en-Mélantois]] *[[Prémesques]] | *[[Quesnoy-sur-Deûle]] *[[Ronchin]] *[[Roncq]] *[[Roubaix]] *[[Sailly-lez-Lannoy]] *[[Sainghin-en-Mélantois]] *[[Sainghin-en-Weppes]] *[[Saint-André-lez-Lille]] *[[Salomé, Nord|Salomé]] *[[Santes]] *[[Seclin]] *[[Sequedin]] *[[Templemars]] *[[Toufflers]] *[[Tourcoing]] *[[Tressin]] *[[Vendeville]] *[[Verlinghem]] *[[Villeneuve d'Ascq]] *[[Wambrechies]] *[[Warneton, France|Warneton]] *[[Wasquehal]] *[[Wattignies]] *[[Wattrelos]] *[[Wavrin]] *[[Wervicq-Sud]] *[[Wicres]] *[[Willems]] |----- | colspan="3" | |} ==External links== * [http://www.lillemetropole.fr/ Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine website] {{coord missing|France}}