Editing Ariège (department) (section)

== Transportation==
[[File:Pamiers Gare 2.JPG|thumb|A train arriving in [[Gare de Pamiers|Pamiers station]].]]

Mostly mountainous and rural, the department of Ariège is far from the main transport routes serving the main valleys and coastlines. The railway arrived in the department in 1861 with the [[Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway|Toulouse to Puigcerda]] line which is the only line that remains open to this day in the department.<ref name="PlanRailMP-2011-p11">[http://www.planrail.fr/automne_modules_files/pmedia/public/r228_9_dossier_de_presse_-_travaux_portet_tarascon.pdf Press Files, Rail Plan for Midi-Pyrénées 2007–2013, The Portet-Tarascon line: History and characteristics of the line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114115926/http://www.planrail.fr/automne_modules_files/pmedia/public/r228_9_dossier_de_presse_-_travaux_portet_tarascon.pdf |date=14 January 2012 }}, April 2011, p 11, consulted on 11 November 2011 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> Besides the trains of the [[TER Occitanie]], this route is still served by [[Intercités|Intercity trains]] from [[Gare de Paris-Austerlitz|Paris-Austerlitz]].

Since 2002 Ariège has been connected to the national motorway network via the [[A66 autoroute]] which joins the [[A61 autoroute]] at [[Villefranche-de-Lauragais]] and continues south of [[Pamiers]] by the National Route NR20 as a dual carriageway as far as [[Tarascon-sur-Ariège]].