And that's why it's so great, no matter where you live there's a stop near you. The original designer said the goal was nobody had to walk more than 500 meters to reach public transport.

@@eannamcnamara9338 Definitely what I liked most about the metro when I used to live there. The bus always felt too complicated - and stuck in traffic anyway. And driving... Well, now I feel like a hero because I did drive the Arc-de-Triomphe roundabout and am still alive to brag about it. They should sell "I survived..." t-shirts about that one.

@@jacquesmainguy1 haha they really should make that shirts. That roundabout is hell, but hey Atleast it's the most likely place to find super cars and hypercars.

No, Madrid metro is the best in europe and most likely in the world

@@echipuosaperlo Please expand on that. What makes Madrid's metro better than Paris's?

The French have always been visionaries

To right! They didn't even consider closing anything!

@@ashleyrabot some stations (Arsenal-Croix rouge ... etc ...) in 1939 never reopened because they were too close to their neighbors.

@@ashleyrabot In reality some networks were closed. The former tramway network which was very big (but very slow in Paris) was completely closed between 1930 and 1940 (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien_tramway_d'%C3%8Ele-de-France). And the Petite Ceinture (a circular railway) is also almost completely closed (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture).

Nah, man, I'm French, I live near Paris and I can ensure you. The hardest task at hand is navigating through it without getting freakin lost xDD

@@itzwaluigitime8678 it's easy to find your way with the metro. Simply check the map and follow signs

16 ans à raison de 2 fois par jour, ça ne fait pas plus de 11680 fois le metro 😉.

@@dunkelelthran Uhh

@@dunkelelthran nope!!!!1!!!!!!!!

@@dunkelelthran extinct animal image

@@dunkelelthran 😂🤣

which is kind of funny considering how important RER extension is

@@ronylouis0 yh I’d say this one in particular because it connects gare du nord (the busiest railway station in Europe) to la defense in only 3 stops

Also the extension to Mairie d'Aubervilliers Edit:He has it now I had seen

@@redx069 no I’m pretty sure he got that

@@alexgruchet5512 he has it I seen

London is also much, much larger in size and rail network.

@@richardwills-woodward5340 that's because the author forgot the whole commuter trains network (Transilien) in this video

@@richardwills-woodward5340 Not really, London is only larger if you compare them on strict municipalities basis which gives a completely distorted comparison. Depending on the way you measure surface one or the other will be larger but Paris is much more densely populated and doesn't stop at its administrative boundaries. Paris agglomeration is subdivided in hundreds of different official, legal or administrative structures whereas London isn't. London has incorporated several different administrative subdivisions whereas Paris is still administratively divided into hundreds of municipalities. But if you compare cities as a whole, the urban or metropolitan area, Paris is larger depending on the measuring reference and way more populated as the "official" (based on declarative survey, tax domiciliation and voting registry but many people are registered in their town of origin and not their real residence) count gives 12.5 millions while the unofficial and more realistic count (done by crossing health insurance data, cell phone data and several other practical real life references and datas) gives a count of more than 15.5 millions. Not including the suburbs of Paris is like considering New York is limited to Manhattan, not counting Brooklyn, the Bronx, the Queens and Staten Island as part of the city. For example, Paris "Central Business District" known as La Défense is not central at all and sits outside official Paris administrative boundaries, like if Wall Street and Midtown offices were located near Prospect Park in Brooklyn and you wouldn't include them as part of New York. It would be a completely false representation of the reality of the city. More than 4 out of 5 Parisians (using the name in its broader sense) live outside official administrative Paris city limits. For a long time the primary subway system called Métro was concentrated on the inner "official" city of Paris (while the RER, Transilien and Tram covered the city way more broadly) and has since a couple decades started to expand to the rest of the city as it's a contiguous and seamless urban area. The new expansion, Grand Paris Express, is doubling the length of the Métro and more than 95% of the expansion is outside the administrative limits of Paris, technically in the suburbs but is considered as Paris Métro without distinction. I'm pretty sure you've seen these skyline / aerial photos of Paris with the Eiffel tower and a bunch of skyscrapers around a modern arch in the background, it's a famous view of Paris but technically more than half of the photo is not in the administrative limits of Paris while its a contiguous and completely seamless city, the only way to know you're not "officially" in Paris anymore would be to look at stoplights and street nameplates as each administrative subdivision or city has its own design. As for the rail network you need to include all Métro, RER, Tram and Transilien and not only the Métro to be able to compare Paris and London on an equivalent basis. Limiting Paris to its administrative designation (75th department) would be like limiting London to the City of Westminster, which makes no sense. A simple way to have a gross idea of the real scale of the rail network of Paris is to have a look in Google Maps with the public transportation overlay activated. It's not complete as it lacks several lines of the Tram network and a part of the Paris equivalent of the London overground. It also doesn't show any of future lines. The Grand Paris Express project took some time to plan at the beginning as authorities initially worked with official survey and voting registry numbers who didn't correlate to reality and they wouldn't understand why some lines could be Europe's absolute busiest (RER A, supported by lines 1 and part of 14 of the Métro), or terribly saturated (like 13 at Saint-Lazare Station), both needing "people pushers" like in Tokyo. Since they started using cross reference data and more realistic numbers correlated to real life commute and population numbers, they successfully planned and started building an ambitious and extremely useful expansion on par with the needs of such a densely populated agglomeration. To sum it up, Wikipedia isn't a reliable source to estimate Paris size or population (or any other city in France for that matter) as they use "municipalities" and official numbers which are not a realistic approach due to the French exception of administrative subdivisions of cities. We already encountered the problem on a video from the channel RM Transit about the German high-speed network ; they wanted to demonstrate the difference in population balance between Germany and France but it was completely wrong as they listed very few French cities larger than 300K inhabitants, missing most of those cities (including one above a million) because they took Wikipedia's numbers based on the French strict administrative subdivision of cities instead of the "Métropole" or urban areas entities which are much more correlated to reality. Hope that helped dissipate misconceptions about Paris.

@@KyrilPG +1000 👍

@@KyrilPG I never go anywhere near any public places for information. I used companies' own analysis for the reasons stated here. London, when measured including ALL its suburbs is far, far larger then Paris - FAR larger. It encompasses a far larger landmass and holds 23.7 million people at 2011 numbers. Further, density is not of any interest to me, quality of life and dynamism as well as other factors. I neither think Paris' density is good nor bad and I do recognise your 15.5 million number for Paris - so we're aligned on that. Paris entire city (not is tiny administrative area) is Paris and when we analyse as a company for clients, our numbers are the same across other companies in different sectors (retail for instance). Your numbers for Paris, mine and others are the same - we agree and we align on taking into account the *entire* city. In New York, they now have 25 million people. There are only two cities with larger metropolitan area than London in area - they are New York and Tokyo. Paris, compared to London is large, but it is not in the same league. It has fingers the stretch over 200 miles end to end in a couple of directions, with the mass not as large as London's. London too has similar fingers and larger urban sprawl because we prefer suburbanisation as a way to live (and frankly, so do I). So we are very fair to ALL cities. We recognise the issues stated by yourself. We tend to agree too. Paris is indeed 15.5 million by our calculations. Paris has the 4th largest metropolitan rail system in the world (after Tokyo, London, New York) with Seoul now in 5th by our analysis but one or two cities are moving up the chain fast. One thing we can definitely all say, is the Shanghai is nowhere here the top (despite their claims) and with your analysis you will recognise this too. They also use short train apart from Line 1 for the most part. All the best. -R-

And T4 extended to Clichy just a few months ago, not back in the 2000s.

Exactement

It’s a very good animation, but the many spelling errors are a distraction.

Il y avait moyen de le faire remarquer avec plus de politesse et de tact. Mais bon, pas étonnant quand on sait que les français sont bon derniers des pays de l'OCDE en terme d'éducation.

You're right

Welcome to the problems of the french writing system

Prague

@@klenoty80s72 There is a sub in Prague ?

@@j.stalin953 Yes, since 1974

Quelques erreurs dans ton commentaires :

Premièrement le t12 c'est de Massy palaiseau à Evry Courcouronnes pas à Juvisy. Pour ça il y a déjà le RER C ( même si le t12 va prendre un partie de celle ci)

Aussi pour la ligne 1 on n'est vraiment pas sur si elle sera prolongé vers Val de fontenay. Regarde la vidéo d'Urban traveler ou ferrovipatha je sais plus, qui explique cela

@@eddycheung1108 effectivement, erreur de ma part

​@@eddycheung1108 Le prolongement de la ligne 1 est quasiment acté (sauf bouleversement). Une enquête publique est prévue cette année : val-de-fontenay.metro-ligne1.fr/download/lettres_d_informations/L1-VDF-Lettre-info-BD.pdf Par contre le prolongement de la ligne 11 de Rosny-Bois-Perrier à Noisy-Champs est dans le brouillard actuellement.

He also forgot about tram line 12. I'm from the 91th district so kinda sucks ( bcz it passes through it)

you want blind leading the blind what the do you smoke

@@danbennett2571 Sorry, I don't follow the point you're tryong to make. Is your's a serious comment - or are you just trying to wind me up ?

Tbh london has a good network that has been gradially expanding as well. But I think this is more of a Paris thing that they build gradually. Partially to split costs and reduce risks. One reason is because whenever a large scheme project is announced there is tons of opposition and outrage from citizens. But when they add a station here or there every few years nobody would really care.

did you notice lines continued to open during both wars> amazing

like how in sheffield most of the -lines- routes were opened in 2 years and the next development didn't happen until 2018

Well it's better than nothing ig. In French ( I suppose u are French lol) I would say " Le travail a été baclé à la fin"

@@eddycheung1108 yes I am 😂 and it's what I would say. Are you french too?

@@lpggem bah devine 😂 ( je viens de te sortir une phrase que seul un natif pourrait te sortir " Le travail a été baclé" )

@@eddycheung1108 j avoue mais on sait jamais 😂

It changes all time: for example the last line to Saclay..

Are you sure it is good idea? 🤣🤣🤣 I spent months to make static map of all metro, tram, monorail, funicular and train lines of Greater Tokyo area and I almost got sick doing it. My head almost exploded. 😉 But I cannot imagine how difficult is to make an animation of even a third of this. 😳

Lucie Aubrac et non Cécile

Merci pour la correction!@@kirantamby-littiere6113

In what way? London's trains are longer, faster, run on a much longer network over a far larger urbanised landmass. Density in the core is definitely impressive in paris though. They are not like for like trains with London apart from the RER.

@@richardwills-woodward5340 Unlike Paris, it's also complex and messy which will face either it needs to be cut or expanded to simplify the lines. Also it is HOW it's built as the extensions are constant in Paris. They are obviously doing something right but what is it?!

@@Tonydjjokerit London is a brilliantly simple system to see thanks tot he mapping logic undertaken on the London Underground a century ago and then applied to the other metro networks over time. London has 3 maps (but could be 2 if TfL stopped being so precious about what it runs instead of benefitting the traveller) - a administrative London network and a wider urbanised landmass network (that also has stops and connections laid out like the original Tube map. I would argue Paris is doing the density part well and enabling the inner core be traversed by public transport easily as na option. Where it goes very wrong is the train types they choose, the lengths of trains and the built in future issues. In the current Grand Paris Metro - only half will consist of full length metro trains. The other half of the project is 3-car low capacity almost tram style services (which is still good and has its place but will prove an issue). The rest is extensions of already very slow and too frequent a stopping train service. Half brilliant and the other half I have questions. Paris should not repeat mistakes made int he past that is painful for it now. London will no longer build Tube lines for example - because the other metro rail types are simply better in an urban area that has far exceeding what Tube planners had ever envisaged. Paris is expanding quickly and indeed is doing far more than London right now. London is currently flat-footed in terms of building enough new lines to offer the options to take the train in most circumstances in London. London needs to densify its rail network yet further. It is already very, very large however, but radial routes need improvement in the administrative area. The outer urbanised area has good radial routes and close to central London. There is a gap in the middle tower than needs filling. It needs the Grand Paris Metro new metro underway that will be the longest continuous underground metro line in the world I believe. I think CR2, Bakerloo extension will both come first. I don't see London doing much before 2050! We have an appalling Mayor, no vision, no money and too much bureaucracy in London where we used to be the opposite.

@@richardwills-woodward5340 SIMPLE MY ASS!!!! Compared to Moskva, Berlin and others it's not.

@@Tonydjjokerit London's network is a damn sight larger than those cities. You cannot have lots and lots of lines and expect not to be in ore of the numbers of lines. What matters is the clarity of the maps. The clarity on the London maps is crystal clear, unless you can't read of course!

Il manque aussi le transilien.

Ouais et le prolongement de la 4 a bagneux

@@Kyks.77 Pas ouvert à la sortie de cette vidéo

@@sobytc bah pour le futur gros malin

et le prolongement en 2023 de celui ci jusqu’à Nanterre et 2024 vers Mantes-la-Jolie...

Also the Viroflay rive droite station is misplaced And all of the routes of the new lines or wrong, like it goes more or less through the right stations but the paths they take between the stations is wrong

Not to mention Versailles to Juvisy isn't rer B

@@Gautier-cw9bu lmao this Guy just copied paste metro liner so for the other info metro liner didn't give it's all false

Most will but some will not. Like Line 18 is probably not going to happen (or merge with Roissy CDG express line) or the extension of line 11 to Noisy is simply not budgeted. I suspect some tram lines will be rolled back, too, very clearly. But it doesn't change the fact we're going through the biggest extension of the network since its creation probably.

@@Desi365 I find impressive that they expand their tram system so much. In berlin, everyone is complaining when they want to extend any tram line

​@@leonard.pw0792which is crazy. A city like Berlin needs to expand aggressively. Its been to stagnant since reunification

It was for financial reasons. At the time, the RATP considered that there were not enough passengers in these stations in the evening to justify keeping agents there. They are now open at the same hours as the others.

@@mfcq4987 I wonder if anyone has ever uploaded the recording. It's one of those sounds from the past I'd love to hear again.

Hong Kong has left the chat 🇭🇰

Oui mais après est ce que les lignes de Transilien sont des lignes de métros à proprement parler. je te dirais non mais en vrai de vrai il a inclus les lignes de tramway donc Oui peut être.

@@eddycheung1108 L'idée de sa vidéo était plus de montrer l'évolution des transports (ferrés) en IDF. Donc je pense que les Transiliens ont toutes leurs places ici.

Transilien network runs almost exclusively on major national railway tracks with hardly any dedicated infrastructure. So either we make all of them pop up in 2004, when their services got properly named or we go back to the creation of railway tracks which started in 1837! That would make quite a long video.

That's because of the way we built them. We dig much deeper now,. You must have noticed that the first tracks followed the same paths as the roads, that is because these streets were dug in and the tracks were laid there. We do not build that way anymore because of a number of reasons ( blocking big streets for months, can't dig too deep)

@@Frluxhxc But... it's precisely what the map shows...

C’était pas précisé

H, J, L, N, P, R aussi

Effectivement il manque les lignes TRANSILIEN!!

Et encore ! Seulement à Arboretum. Seulement août 2020 pour Hôpital de Mntfermeil.

That is supposed to come at the end of this year I think

@@redx069 nope

@@redx069 mb 2024 or something

@@redx069 he also forgot about tram line 12 expected to open in 2022

Yep he forgot many extension before 2030 and some projects like t12 or t13

Y partly copied it lmao

Nearly looks same… Could I @Metro Liner?

Well, after reading the comments below, I think this might be an original video, because the quantity of mistakes are more than Metro Liner’s one.

In Paris the "tram" (short for tramway) is a lightrail

Have noticed it too.

robert wagner est un homme politicien français, maire de la ville de Velizy et cette station qui porte son nom se trouve dans cette ville, c'est un hommage.

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