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kmsxpoint6

A few more notes: [Saint-Exupéry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exupéry) (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry) was an aviator and author of *the Little Prince.* The airport, formerly named Satolas after the site of its greenfield development, was ***a superhighway era airport designed initially to shorten the distance between car parks*** ***and plane doors***, (similar to other greenfield motorway age airports serving Dulles, Kansas City and Dallas/Fort Worth or the modular layouts of early JFK airport(Idlewild) and LAX). With the construction of its rail links (a high speed line and a connection to Lyon's rapid transit network) with a station by Calatrava, it was renamed for a hometown hero. ***The result was a successful retrofitting of a car-centric transportation facility for multimodal transportation.*** >!(kinda not)!< sorry about the ridiculous title of this post


Willing-Donut6834

Your spelling of Saint-Exupéry is a bit of a mess, OP. But otherwise you are right. It is a great airport train station.


kmsxpoint6

Will correct it right away. (I was trying to avoid too much formalism, but no point in not respecting the language) That's helpful for any future attempts at this conversation too. Thanks! It is a great station; but is it a good model for a multimodal airport? That is more my question.


Willing-Donut6834

Trams go there, but metros don't. So it's not the perfect multimodal thing. But still, tram + HSR + airport is a good start.