Montparnasse Station 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.
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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 Vercingétorix and Rue Commandant-René-Mouchette, once favored by artists such as the naive painter Henri Rousseau, had become increasingly dilapidated, until finally an almost complete clearance of an area of 80 hectares/200 acres was carried out. The functional concrete structures in a kind of neo-classical style, often with something of the appearance of stage- settings, which took the place of the old buildings continue to be the subject of controversy.
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 Vercingétorix and Rue Commandant-René-Mouchette, once favored by artists such as the naive painter Henri Rousseau, had become increasingly dilapidated, until finally an almost complete clearance of an area of 80 hectares/200 acres was carried out. The functional concrete structures in a kind of neo-classical style, often with something of the appearance of stage- settings, which took the place of the old buildings continue to be the subject of controversy.
