Warning: Getting to Lyon track may take longer than advertised
From a masters mole in Lyon: “The Athletes Manual (see French version here) provides maps of the stadia themselves, but not the surrounding areas. The instructions just say after you get off your tram you should walk, for example, ’11 minutes.’ But which way?” At least one American heptathlete mistook the time it takes to get to a venue — and missed her first event. Another took a dry run to Bron Stadium the day before her heptathlon and it took her 2.5 hours. Let us know how transit is treating you. The resuls page at Lyon2015.com is still a mess, but results are being posted to Facebook.
Here’s a rough map from official manual on where the stadia are in Lyon.
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I am driving a small open-topped sports car around Lyon. As a photographer, I need to be able to get to all of the venues. At any time of day at the moment, my own rule is to take the journey time given by my satnav, and double it.
Hmm, Mapquest? Google maps? Ask people? Take a cab? I do not know. 2.5 hours – totally baffling.
Agree with MJ, 2.5 hours is baffling, perhaps if you crawled. Hotel door to Rhone Stadium, in our case, 25 mins. The metro system trains run every 3-6 minutes, Vaise to Venissieux (stations at either end of the green line) about 30mins total. Assuming a walk to the metro station, and a transfer to a different line, perhaps one hour max, depending on
where you are in the city. Personally I think the air-conditioned public transportation system (run on the honor system) is excellent. Sorry to hear that people may be experiencin difficulties.
I can see that if you didn’t know what you were doing it could take a long time to get to some of the venues. When we first arrived yesterday we walked from our hotel to our stadium and then found that the shuttle was not leaving for the registration site for two and a half hours, so we walked to the bus, took the bus to the train, the train across town and then there’s another bus to the other stadium, so with all of the walking it was probably a couple of hours.
That has not been my experience so far. I was going to do a trial run to the stadium where I am to run the 5km tomorrow at 8:30 am but it is too hot. I will allow 2 hours to get there leaving hotel at 6:30 am. Either I make it in plenty of time or I get so lost that I end up,in Switzerland !
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