Focus on the town centre

Tourcoing
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Focus on the town centre
Tourcoing’s centre is the beating heart of the town. It is nowadays very accessible (public
transport, non-polluting transport, parking, traffic, etc.), multifunctional, welcoming and
attractive. Welcome !
Things to see and do in the town centre
Tourcoing’s town centre offers a wide range of cultural, sporting, commercial and leisure amenities, all
within close range of each other.
View the town centre amenities on the town map
Shops/markets
Tourcoing’s historic pedestrian streets contain a wide range of small shops… Alongside dozens of
businesses, the Saint Christophe shopping centre and the Les Écrans cinema add to this local offer.
Town centre markets:
If you like market shopping there are several opportunities every week!
Monday and Thursday, 8.30 am to 12.30 pm (food and clothing)
Saturday, 8.30 am to 12.30 pm (food)
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Marché en centre-ville
Accessibility & transport
The town centre has a multimodal public transport hub with direct connections:
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By underground, tramway, bus (including LIANE, a high service level line)
By rail with the nearby station. In 2016, Tourcoing will be welcoming Ouigo trains (low-cost TGV offer
from the SNCF)
25 V’Lille self-service bike hire stations, i.e. 200 bikes. The town also has a V’Lille centre for practical
information and long-term bike hire, and offers “Lilas” car-share vehicles (self-service car hire).
By car, nearly 2000 parking spaces (enclosed and/or covered) are available, and a redesigned traffic
scheme provides easier access to the hyper-centre.
Town centre projects
The Swimming Pool Quadrilateral
The Council has embarked on an ambitious development programme known as the “Swimming Pool
Quadrilateral”: a strategic area covering 5 hectares between rue Nationale, rue du Bus, rue du Haze and
rue Gabriel Péri. This unexploited town centre site will eventually contain 300 homes, a school with 15
classes, an infancy centre, cultural and associative facilities, offices, shops and renovated public spaces.
“Institut du monde arabe”
Tourcoing’s town centre will soon be home to the regional branch of the “Institut du Monde Arabe”. The
Institute will be housed in the former swimming school, which many of Tourcoing’s inhabitants frequented a
few decades ago…
Administrative Centre
To make it easier to receive the Tourcoing public and make internal organisation more efficient, all the
Tourcoing Town Hall services will soon be grouped together in the same building, a real administrative
centre at the heart of the Swimming Pool Quadrilateral.
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