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==Transportation==
[[File:Gare de Laon - hauteur.JPG|thumb|right|[[Laon station]] from the upper town]]

[[Laon station|Laon railway station]] offers connections to Reims, Soissons and Paris.

Until August 2016, the town had the only fully automated municipal [[Cable car (railway)|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 the city of [[Perugia]] in Italy.

The town's transport company TUL (Transports Urbains Laonnois)<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.tul-laon.net/ TUL official website]</ref> operates the local bus routes.<ref>[http://www.cita.asso.fr/Plan_reseaux_et_lignes/plantul2009.pdf TUL transport map of Laon] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720204716/http://www.cita.asso.fr/Plan_reseaux_et_lignes/plantul2009.pdf |date=20 July 2011 }}</ref>
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