Montparnasse Station

(Local Name: Gare de Montparnasse) Adjoining Maine-Montparnasse tower is the new Montparnasse Station (trains to western France), built in the early 70s. At the Pont des Cinq-Martyrs-du- Lycée-Buffon is the Gare de Vaugirard (opened 1991) from which the high-speed TGV trains run to the Atlantic coast. It is estimated that the two stations will in future handle some 60 million passengers a year. The railroad lines are roofed over and covered by the "Jardin de l'Atlantique", which forms a link between the Vaugirard and Plaisance districts.

Since the 1960s the city has been carrying out beyond Montparnasse Station one of the largest and most radical redevelopment programs in Paris. The area between Rue