Yes, we are aware of the timing of the Line 14 extensions opening yesterday! If you want us to cover it, give this comment a "like" and reach out if you are able to contribute footage!

So frustrating how North American cities refuse to build transit like Paris is. But we're always willing to build even more highways...

Not only was this project several times cheaper than simpler projects on the other side of the pond but it was also an incredible technical challenge, dealing with Paris's poor subsoil-which is literally sand in some places, filled with groundwater and old quarries- as well as La Defense station, which was built right under a shopping mall without ever closing it! Nanterre is also set to become a major hub, with the under construction line 15 metro station being future-proof for the extension of lines 16, 17, 18, and the future line 19 that are planned for the 2030s. ✨The magic of master plans ✨

yesteday we opened the line 14 and 11 extention , a busy year

I live in Paris next to the RER E station of Rosa Parks, the new extensions simplifies my daily life, not only is it fast and convenient but it reduces congestion on the other RER lines that were suffering for decades, only drawback for the time being is the frequency mainly due to renovation and working on existing infrastructure for the olympics

We're building the lines' infrastructure so fast that all the rolling stock isn't even delivered yet, and lines E, 11 and 14 will have more trains delivered progressively until the end of 2024. At the moment, the frequency is slightly reduced on those lines and will be increased with the upcoming train deliveries...

And the video released the day of yet ANOTHER Paris transit's extension ! (métro line 14)

The supposedly "wood" flooring on the platforms is magnificent. I wonder how this will age tho.

... and this video was released one day after the opening of the 14 km extension of Metro 14, that now connects Orly airport to the French capital. Paris do "build a lot of transit"!

Impressive (again) stuff from Paris. I was about to say "why aren't they extending further West? They've already built the tunnel". And then you answered. They are. Of course they are, because Paris.

Even as a longtime viewer, I'm consistently amazed that "every 15 minutes" is considered low frequency in most of the world.

It still is trippy to me to see the z50000 trains in the RER E tunnels. I'm so used to those being the above-ground Transilien rolling stock seeing them underground makes them look like they got lost. I'm still glad because I love those trains and the huge windows they have.

The last few months in Paris have been exceptional for transit, in a stark contrast to the current national political situation. The good news is that there is a healthy pipeline of ongoing construction in the country, to be open within 5 years, including: - 100 km of new subway in Paris (line 15 south, 16 and 18); - 30 km of new subway in Toulouse (line C and line B extension); - A couple of tram lines in Lyon.

Paris has an excellent transportation network Parisians don’t realise how lucky they are and the ticket is cheap too

Paris is so far ahead of other cities, even London’s tube network… They have the RER E extension, then the line 11 serving towards the east, and now the most recent extension is line 14 with both north and south extensions on the line They are on a different level when it comes to metro expansions

France is doing good work with new transit projects, bike infrastructure, more nuclear plants, and beautifying its neighborhoods

Riding the line 14 yesterday, which is a metro/subway line, I was really impressed by how fast the trains go, and how far the line runs. It’s almost like a third type of transport, not RER, but not metro/subway either. A metro, but capable of moving large quantities of people, very quickly. Yesterday was opening day, June 24th. That is, opening day for the extensions, both ends. The station at the north, Saint Denis Pleyel, is huge and very well done.

Yesterday line 14 was extended to Orly Airport, also the 11 one was extended far in the east, all in less than a month…

You know what I respect about you Reece. You don't pedantically try to "correctly" pronounce place names in a foreign language. You just do it in your regular Anglo -Canadian accent. You just did a video about France and included no botched guttural R sounds and no nasal vowels. And honestly that is so genuine, welcome and rare in a world (at least an Anglosphere) where it seems everyone is trying so hard to be someone they're not. Keep being you! Youre doing great! 😊

I really love these new stations, and the RER E is finally becoming a real interconnection line, a real RER line. That's great

very proud to see this vid actually, I recently send my profile to the sncf to work on as a train driver on this line and recruitment process seems to be looking good to me !

RER E wasn't much talked about because people are focused on the real big game-changer that's coming, the Grand Paris Express. They tend to consider RER E like a part of this GPX project, just like the recent extensions of metro lines 11 and 14

Always love the Paris public transit system. I think it is one of the best in the world.

Amusing to be posting this the day after the line 14 extension to Orly and St Denis opens...

Paris has been spending huge sums of money to extend Paris Metro, RER regional rail and building out tram networks just to clear up an notorious traffic jam problem that has existed even _before_ World War II. This has finally made it possible to start opening up streets to pedestrian and bicycle traffic only in the last 25 years.

Excellent work ! I have rarely seen an English-speaking video of such clarity about French transportation !

Big fan of the vibrant seating on the new trains.

La Defense Station DEFINITELY looks like a spiritual cousin of the Sir Norman Foster designed Canary Wharf Jubilee station with those thick columns and over-height platform levels... Fitting since those are the two largest modern secondary CBD's on the continent... LOVE IT!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="160">2:40</a> Actually, these columns do not support the station, but the CNIT building above. The CNIT has been the very 1st Défense building, inaugurated by De Gaulle in 1958, with a huge curved triangular concrete roof (you can see a part of it around <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="290">4:50</a>). It was quite an undertaking to first cast these giant pillars, then dig out what is now an impressive underground station! Anyway, nice video. Keep up the good work and yes, plenty of new transit stuff going on in Paris!

Excited to take the RER this summer when I'm passing through Paris... though bracing for it to be busy because I completely forgot the Olympics were this summer. 😅

Great video, I'm really happy you've highlighted this topic, as except french media I didn't see any info about this

hey, I went visit the new stations and I've been blown away by the attention to details. It's truly a remarkable work and you're videos is an ode to that. Thanks for making this content.

This project seems more similar to what the construction of the Regional Connector did for the LA Metro. It greatly simplified crossing the greater LA metro region resulting in reduced travel times and transfers. Frequencies on both the A and E lines have improved as well. In fact, just recently the A line surpassed the B line in ridership for the first time ever. Oh, and the building cost was similar to this French project and there were 3 underground stations.

The final price tag is 5.5Md€. Here too costs overruns do occur. The next lines needing to be fixed are both RER C and A. The former is to have a major reshuffle of its services pattern before the introduction of new rolling stock, likely made up of two distinct classes. RER D will get the same class of EMUs than the RER A, but a new tunnel between Châtelet - Les Halles and Gare du Nord is no more on the cards, on costs grounds. So long too for RER F studied in the 90s in order to relieve Metro Line 13 by linking Gare Montparnasse and Gare Sr Lazare suburban services.

This is much better than The Sphere

Flying to Paris from Australia just to ride their trains and check out all the cool stations

I was scared this would never open because like about one year ago a weekly newsflash about Paris transit interviewed someone from the EOLE (RER E) project that they needed more money because of delays and problems during construction, and that SNCF (French rail) wasn't willing to invest money in this. I'm glad they managed to find money and completed this part of the project! I'm hoping this part of the line gets more reliable in the near future though

The real genius behind this huge infrastructure project in and around Paris was the creation of a purpose built company, public, yet independent to oversee the whole thing, the Société du Grand Paris). The reason was that Président Sarkozy who initiated the project knew all too well that long term grand projects have a habit of getting cancelled by future governments and he wanted something really future proof. Having an independent central authority also helped a lot with getting everything interconnected with minimal interference from local politicians. All in all, in spite of the difficulties this has been a great success so much so that the company has now been renamed Société des Grands Travaux (Great works company) and tasked to modernise the rest of France infrastructure

I always find it amazing how developed countries have the power to change their cities. As someone from a third world country, I witness how my city just cannot do anything.

Fantastic video really informative can't wait to visit the system in a few months. Any chance of a video on the transport in Bremen especially the fantastic s Bahn.

I love these new colorful single deck trains(took them to Versailles)

You should also check the extension of subway lines 11 and 14. Quite interesting. And do not forget the dark side of Paris transit system: RER B line, overcrowded and undermaintained!

Mind that the service is still very limited. As you mention the 15 min frequency, the trains are only available between 10a.m. and 4p.m. on Weekdays and the new extension is branched out from the rest of the line, meaning you have to change at either Gare du Nord or Haussmann St-Lazare to get to the new stations.

Also, I have finally tested the RER NG, when I took the RER E from Haussman-Saint-Lazarre to Magenta for the first time last Thursday, and my god it looks SO COOL!! I hope they plan to put some on RER B afterwards cause they're NEEDED

Although this channel always makes me feel grateful to live in Paris and have access to transit many dream of, these things always seem better on paper (and on KZfaq) than in lived reality. On the five RER C journeys I took this month, I waited a cumulative 2 hours on the platform.

I just kind of zone out during these videos because of how depressing it is comparing a huge project (which to them is just another train line without any fanfare) to what we have here in the States. Ugh Great content though, not knocking that!

Paris metro might probably be the closest to the NYC subway to be honest…

And it will be a great access to the Olympics and Paralympics swim stadium in Nanterre 😊

I love Porte Maillot on RER E. Those tubes for the escalators are very reminiscent of Charles de Gaulle Terminal 1 central escalators that look very cool. La Defense ows its architecture to the fact that it was dug beneath the underground car park of the CNIT arched building, a very sensitive area. Terrain was escavated bit by bit and supported along the way, So this architecture was the only one technically possible without demolishing everything above it. On the other side of the esplanade there is the Westfield shapping mall that features a place reserved for a Line 1 metro station since the 30s that would have been used for Line 15 had the owners of the said shopping mall not interfered... (Unlawfully I must say since the GP Express is a LAW first and foremost !!! alas, French governement is weak these days. Had it is been China, Westfield would have been expropriated, the shopping mall demolished for good measure... So the SGP had to find another place for the Defense station on Line 15 which will be further South and... FAR from the existing lines... a transfer made bad because of a shopping mall owner acting like stupid NIMBYs ! I remember the first GP Express public debate tha was hold in Palais des Congrès back in 2010... The then SGP president had said 'we want to avoid a St Lazare Auber or Châtelet Les Halles situation the most possible...' So much for that. So yesh, even Paris transportation has its hassles, it's not just the USA. That's why I wish Line 1 was extended to Nanterre La Folie to offer better transfers with Line 15 and other future GPX lines such as 16/17 and possibly 18/19. RER A station Nanterre Prefecture is barely 200 m South and a corridor with a travelator could be built to also feature a RER A transfer. That way the La Defense hib would doubled with Nanterre on the Western Side and La Défense on the Eastern side to diminish transfer loads on La Défense. Line 1 could also push towards the University station and the nearby Hospital near the Seine. To be fixed, RER D needs new tunnels between Châtelet and Gare du Nord. (for RER B to be precise given the current platform configuration in CLH), and an ovepass rebuilt North of Gare du Nord to obtain the same configuration in Gare du Nord RER station as in CLH with B tracks around D tracks in the middle (GdN RER platforms are currently BDBD and not BDDB as they should...). It's the only way to fix the problem, that overpass and two one track tunnels for RER B around the existing tunnel for RER D. For those who ask why, look in Carto Metro web site... I hope you will check out Lines 11 and 14 extensions. I love the Line 11 extension, it brings a fresh look to the old Paris metro style. If you come to check it out yourself or asks for your correspondants for info, don't forget to check out the main entrance to la Dhuys station on a hillside with a direct visual contact of the next (above ground) Coteaux Beauclair station down below !!! La Dhuys is my favorite station on that extension because of that and the galery above the tracks that is very scenic. That and the Romainville-Carnot 6 elevators+ crossing stairs shaft !!! Line 14 extensions in Grand Paris Express style look more blend and international that Paris metro, i'm not a huge fan of the style, but as you are a Montreal metro fan, I think you will find it particularly adequate for your taste. Oh and Line 14 brings the full height and low roof platform screen doors to Paris. That being said, that station spacing makes it faster than a RER B+Orlyval connection to get to Orly airport ! The stations, although blend or even ugly to my taste are functional and simple, that is quite disorientating compared to old style stations. On Line 14 extensions, St Denis is massive due to Grand Paris future lines. Thiais Orly is very nice in its design, can't wait for Gustave Roussy to open in December and reveal the 50+ m diameter and 50m deep well the station is built in with a glass roof allowing direct sunlight in. (even closed, you can see two windows per platform that give a view of the station with the sunlight when the train goes by if you pay attention...) For now Line 14 has become Paris longest metro line but doesn't dethrone Lille's Line 2 which is 2 km longer and has 44 stations. Next year, Line 15 will dethrone every longest lines in France with its 33 km first section, that will grow up to 75 km when the loop is finished in 2031.

Wish the Spanish government build more cercanias lines around Madrid like Paris&France do

Incredible stuff, you get so jealous of Paris and how they can do all of this stuff. Like we just opened a 5 stop extension to a metro line in Copenhagen 3 days ago but arent even remotely close to Paris' level or even most other European countries. We're closer to Canada than the rest of the continent frankly. Just, Paris' planning and action is impecable

Perhaps you should start a series called Olympic games city transit expansion or World Cup expansion. As well as analyst the bidding proposals when they arrive.

Could you make a video explaining how france can build rail infrastructure so fast and cheap ? Here in germany it's a shitshow

You're going to have work RM!!😁 The extensions of 11 and 14 have been open since June 13 and 24... Tested and approved by myself.

I don't think there is any other city on the planet building nicer transport right now.

I'm too impatient to see if you do mention it later in the video, but <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="223">3:43</a> with the overhead line suspended on supports coming out from the platform roof is just the neatest overhead line I've ever seen in a station. Would love it if we could get that in the UK when we finally get some wires in Bristol Temple Meads.

Please have these Frenchies come over, run, and replace BART, CalTrain, ACE, Amtrack, CAHSR, and our metro lines in Northern CA. Interconnectivity is a foreign word to our rail authorities.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="61">1:01</a> The trains stopped there for more than two decades? That’s a ludicrous turnaround time.

Please do a video about Sarajevos public transport system and its future and potential projescts and extension. I would really love to see your opinion on it

line 14 opened to Orly, linking the airport to the capital in just 24 minutes

And now you can do a video on the brand new Metro 14 extension 😅

Damn, that Extension to La Défense could have really come in handy, when I was in Paris two weeks ago.

Please make a video about Bucharest's metro and the new line that just started to be under construction, M6.

Completely unrelated but would love to see a video explainer on the Adelaide Suburban Rail network from you, I don't publish but I consider myself an expert on the network and it's quirks and would love for you to share our network with the world

Its not just that Paris knows how to build, it is that the soil conditions favor tunneling which makes it cheaper.

Surprised that you didn’t compare it to the Regional Connector that Los Angeles opened last year.

I just want to ask on behalf of Australia, can we convince the New South Wales state government to buy some of this RER NG rolling stock for testing? A mixed double/single-deck train would be incredibly useful on Sydney's suburban railways and it seems like this model is having way fewer technical problems than our current massively-delayed replacement trains. (Admittedly the current government wants to build future trains in Australia but both Alstom and Bombardier have factories here, they could simply copy the RER NG design and build it locally).

Can you do a video about nederlandse spoorwegen

AND the new trains will be capable of 140 Km/h cruise speed, while we, here in Montreal, are stuck with 80 Km/h REM trains ...

could you please do a video about portugal?

Talk about the Rheinbahn network of Düssldorf Region, the capital of the state of nrw in Germany

Damn I live there and I didn't even know they extended that line, lol That said, it makes me feel like the south of Paris (left bank of la Seine) is really getting neglected as far as RER goes...

Honestly, it's just so depressing that America can probably build 3 meters of tram for the same price and have a giant parking lot, little to no bus connection, and run right on a stroad at a snails pace while texas trucks streak past running over that one pedestrian trying to access the train.

indonesian/jakarta video when?

This should be the standard in every major city.

Those extensions are well needed. RER A and RER B are garbage and sturated nowadays. But the Olympics really boosted the Parisian network. France is great at building infrastructures for decent cost.

So is the next video from our favorite Parisian youtube channel be on the newly open extension of line 14 ? Kinda of a mess on the topic of the ticket (but much easier than a lot of people thinks)

If you live in Seattle, you’ll see electric rail in neighboring cities like Tacoma and Everett, but it’s Light Rail…

Add in th criminal neglect of Paris Gare Austerlitz...

It's funny that you praise us for controlling the cost because here in France, people complained about the project going over-budget. The SNCF even had to stop working and demanded insurance for more fundings for the project.

I just don't understand the pricing and WHY it's so expensive to build in North America. In Toronto for example, the under construction Ontario line has gone from 15 billion to 27 billion! And it's not even going to be as long as some of the lines in Paris. I get that the line will go through some of the most densely packed areas of downtown in North America, i still just think that it shouldn't be this expensive.

Are you going to make any video on RRTS in india? If yes, any estimates?

Sooooooo jealous of Parisians

Why is it that some the newest RER trains (MI2N & MI09) seems to have a design discouraging walking between cars? I do see they have some form of gangway, but the design seems to discourage using them

Why no station at / near Arc de triomphe?

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Doubling the Paris-Nord ↔ Châtelet RER tunnel (which is essential since RER D borrows RER B's tunnel currently) will not be even half as easy as the RER E tunnel.

Man I wish we had anything like this in North America....

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I just want to pay Parisian prices for transit

Paris olympics just want to mention it

😂 he said fixing rer d when the b is literally asking also for help

I’m confused

I know it‘s complaining from a rather privileged perspective but it‘s definitely frustrating as a Berlin citizen that our neighbors in the west manage to build so much in such relatively short periods while our projects keep being delayed and our U-Bahn literally has lines that are disconnected from the rest simply because old tunnels from war times are not intact anymore which leads to major challenges with train repairs. And we literally have a super short part of a tram line that’s supposed to be moved closer to Ostkreuz (a major train station that’s one of the 4 most important train stations on the Ringbahn) but already took almost a decade to plan before anything started and it’s probably taking more time. Berlin definitely has good transport but it’s no where close to what it could be and in some parts not even what it was (West-Berlin took the US-American approach and got rid of all the tram tracks when the city was still split). But it’s most likely improving soon. We’ll get a new like soon for the S-Bahn that connects the main station to Ringbahn but unfortunately it’s only the first of 3 major sections of that line and construction didn’t even start for the second section and the third one isn’t close to be fully planned out. We definitely take ages to build some relevant instructure projects.

What a bizarre comment about crossrail. The world media did not all talk about crossrail, only the media you read which is likely in English. The same applies to French projects which we well discussed in the French speaking world

Sad to live in a poor country and realize that the biggest inauguration of the year in your city was a BRT line.

Except for one quite important point, this is yet another excellent video. The one weakness is that you repeatedly refer to London's 'Crossrail'. Except amongst certain diehard railway enthusiasts, the term 'Crossrail' has fallen out of use. Everyone else refers to the new fast East-West line in London as the 'Elizabeth Line' . THAT IS THE NAME ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP.

Only someone who doesn't take Paris public transportation on a dayly basis can dare to make such a statement. Paris' infrastructure is utterly collapsing

I get all the positive aspects but this line is everything but cheap! Firstly at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="93">1:33</a> the info in wrong. official estimates puts it at 5,4 BILLION euro. It was indeed expected to cost 3,8 billion but construction costs have increased by 1,7 billion! That's a LOT of money, no matter how we try to glorify it. And it's all money we'll have to pay off😒😒

Is it possible for a city to have too much transit if they aren’t supplementing it with additional housing? Seems like Paris is building everything but homes for their population.