page_title: Laon
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Laon / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Laon station from old town Français&#160;: Gare de Laon vue de la vieille ville
context_page_description: Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France, northern France. As of 2012 its population was 25,317.
context_section_description: Until August 2016, the town had the only fully automated municipal cable car system in the world, called the Poma 2000. It linked the upper town (the historical centre, located on a plateau) with the lower town, had three stations and ran on rubber tyres. In contrast, the San Francisco cable car system is manually operated, and most other automated cable car systems have restricted operations within airports and hospitals, though another automated cable car called the Minimetrò may be found in Perugia.
  The town's transport company TUL (Transports Urbains Laonnois) operates the local bus routes
caption: Laon station from the upper town
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