Hi,you forgetin mjor train station Paris-Bercy who desserve destination like Clermont ferrand

@@maxbarr3954 it's not a major station, it's mainly used for one train line, and it doesnt serve Clermont-Ferrand

How is Paris the best Underground Network? As London has many different Lines at different levels and loads of Underground Stations on each Line, plus more Major train Stations in London that go up to the Midlands, Wales, Scotland and the Eurostar from London St Pancras International to France, Belgium and Netherlands in Europe.

Will you (please!) also be producing an explainer on France’s expanding TGV network, and on how it fits into Europe’s broader high-speed rail network? I’ll be relocating to Paris soon-not immediately, but relatively soon, around 2025-and I’ve realized with a start that it’s been over two decades since I last set foot in Paris. When I was last there, I believe there were two TGV lines-I traveled south on one repeatedly-and high-speed rail elsewhere in Europe was a rarity, but sleeper cars all across Europe were still widely available and popular, while short-hop flights were rare and expensive. My understanding is sleeper cars then died out, and short-hop flights (ugh) became the norm for travel in the late ‘00s and throughout the ‘10s. But now I’m told France has something like _seven_ TGV lines, AND high-speed rail is available everywhere-including throughout Scandinavia, but not in the UK-sleeper cars are making a glorious comeback, short-hop flights are being phased out (thank goodness, what a time-waster those really are), and in theory I could ride a TGV to nearly any corner of France, or take nothing but high-speed rail from Paris all the way to northernmost Sweden!! Soooo … if you could elaborate on this, and fill in the gaps, or just tell us more about France’s expanded TGV and its place in Europe’s high-speed rail network, it’d be much appreciated! I’m planning on going … EVERYWHERE!! … from 2025 through 2032.

Why don't you do a transit battle between NYC and Paris?

Well, doing so by metro-means, so to say, is too expensive, this is the role for in-street PT. And this situation leads to large operational cost of maintenance of metro-system. Paris very much lacks of trams in its center which would be so much better for quick interconnection and connectivity, and accessibility. Its not practical to use potentially express kind of transportation like metro as local connectivity measure. That's why Paris metro are overcrowded (but this is the problem for many metros in the cities which abandoned trams in the city centers for the sake of "cars-must-run" ;)))

@@Whitebeard79outOfRus I'm parisian and I will disagree. The biggest problem with Paris' metro being overcrowded is the sheer density of the city, and the fact a lot of suburbanites use it. Because we use our metro system basically like a very high capacity tram network. Adding trams would make it both redudant and less effective. Trams have a lower capacity, speed and debit. Though are far nicer than metros to take, I'll definitely agree with this. But inside Paris, basically all main metro (outside of the bis, it's complicated) move at the very least 200 000 person a day in a normal year. What would be needed is both better intra-suburbs connexions, and higher speed lines of RER passing through Paris. I may be wrong there and do completely agree that above earth, the bus transit is *bad* inside the city. But far better and quite effective when including the suburbs, with 354 lines, 12000 stations and a lot of lines with a very good regularity and bus coming under 10 minutes of wait. We do lack in the road infrastructure for bus only roads, but it's getting better every year.

@@marcbuisson2463 Yes, trams are nice but I agree in that I don’t think building tram lines in the centre of Paris would add much value. The metro already provides high-capacity local service. Better bus service would probably be cheaper and just as effective at providing accessible transit (if I remember correctly, all of the buses in Paris are accessible). That said, I feel like you might be underselling the current bus system in Paris. Yes, frequencies aren’t as good as on the metro and buses can get stuck in traffic in places where they don’t have their own lane. But many of the bus stops are very well-designed; a lot of them even have screens showing when the next bus is coming. When I was living in Paris, I found that it was sometimes just as fast to take one bus to get from one place to another than it is to take two metro lines and spend time transferring. Perhaps providing better frequencies on certain bus lines and having more bus-lanes could make it an even more attractive service. I also wonder if an exception could be made for buses within their own bus lanes on streets that have recently had their speed limits lowered to 30km/h. The buses could perhaps be allowed to go 50km/h whereas private cars and trucks can go 30km/h. One tram extension within Paris that I think would make a lot of sense is extending tram lines T3a and T3b to Nation, which would allow people to transfer between the tram and all the metro lines and RER A at Nation.

@@ethandanielburg6356 Unless it has changed already, getting rid of stupid, arbitrary and convoluted rules surrounding connections between different modes of transportation with a t+ ticket would probably do some good. A couple of weeks before the first pandemic lockdown, I visited a friend near Paris. Before I left, we decided to visit the Orsay museum, in part because of how easy it is to go to the Austerlitz station from there. We got out of the museum a fair bit before the departure of the train I wanted to catch, just to be safe, and got to the RER station. Once we reached the platform, an agent told us that there is an abandoned shoe box in the RER and that they are evacuating the station, following the procedure. Fair enough, we go out of the station and try to take the metro. We walk briskly to the metro station nearby ; when I tried to go in with the ticket I had used to enter the RER station, I can't, because once you get out of the underground network, you are not allowed to connect back. I was already a little pissed, but I picked a second ticket and went on. Since the metro is slower than the RER, I didn't have that much time to complain. For some reason, there was some issue on the 10 line, I don't remember what, and it had to stop. We were explained which buses nearby got the the main destinations on the line, and how to get there. We find the right bus stop easily, wait a few minutes, go in, I try to reuse my second ticket, and it doesn't work. The driver explains that connections between the metro and the bus on a single ticket are not allowed. I reluctantly use a third one, try to estimate how long it will take to arrive near Austerlitz and whether or not I will catch my train. I won't. And, soon after we entered the bus, there was an announcement that it wouldn't go all the way to Gare de Lyon, which didn't affect me personally, but adds to the absurdity of the situation. In the end, I used three tickets for what was supposed to be a very straightforward trip and missed my train (which I could easily have done for free by walking there instead). I really felt like I was getting scammed. I know it was a very unlikely turn of events, one accident or abandoned luggage is a thing, three incidents in a row on the same short trip are another, and that it doesn't affect locals who have yearly subscriptions anyway, but I still think it is a shame to have such a good, interconnected network with lots of different modes of transportation just to discourage people to actually use these connections through tarification. I can't think of a single other city that uses the same tickets for different modes, but has so many different rules for which connections you can and cannot make, and for how long. These tickets are mostly used by people who aren't super familiar with the network, how are they this user unfriendly ?

@@filiaaut I have a monthly subscription so I can't complain but for my parents who came for the holidays, I took a monthly subscription too so as to avoid the hussles you encountered even if they aren't going to use the métro that much. I was in Lille for two days and it has a one day, two days, three days options that allow you to use one relatively cheap ticket for métro, tramway and bus. I was so glad about it

It absolutely is the best view in my opinion. At night when your catch it twinkling is amazing. Be sure to get a window seat on the left if you are heading south, and right if you are heading north. North-south is probably best for the view

Yeah whenever I need to take line 6 down that path I always make sure to get a window view of the tower cause it never gets old. Also, while not a metro, bus #69 (nice) is practically a tour bus. It crosses the Bastille, Rivoli, the Louvre pyramid, Orsay, Invalides, and has a terminus in front of the Eiffel Tower.

@@caseysmith4206 Or if you are willing to take a stroll ( and eventually pay a ticket, if you didn't take a Paris Visite/several day pass )... leave at either Passy or Bir-Hakeim, cross the bridge by foot ( you'll be under the subway ) and go back in at the other station.

I agree. 😊 Although line 6 is kind of old but still it works very well.

Yes, I agree with you! I think the most beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower is from the top of the Montparnasse Tower, (with the Defense in the background, it is incredible), but the view from line 6 is magnificent too (and far less expensive !).

Thank you 🙏🏾 for looking past the aspect (crowded and Dirty) of one if not « the » oldest metro system in the world. The dense system makes it so that you are never ever more than 300m (~330yards) form a subway station in any direction

best in the world doesn't mean it doesn't suck. Just that every other one sucks a bit more.

@@jandron94 I live in the 5th arrondissement and that's my case but I'm 5 min away from a RER B (train) station, which is connecting CDG in the North to South suburbs, going by the hub Châtelet-Les Halles. The video is not going into details concerning the RER, which is also a fast moving solution, even inside Paris !

A small city ? What is a big city then ? 7 millions is a lot of people.

@@huquui8789 If you're referring to Paris it's a small city. A very dense one for its size indeed but small nonetheless : you can pretty much walk from north to south of it in 2h (not including cergy yo melun or whatever since it's not Paris itself). In comparison NYC is several times the size of it, and i doubt you'd go from one island to the very last in even a day. Los Angeles is 100+km too from N to S

Indeed, the served areas weren't even built-up back then in the end of the 19th century, so they considered a loop at the ending would be good enough. The loop on line 10 being eventually "broken" to extend the line to Boulogne.

The noise the metro makes in those square galleries to Boulogne is deafening ! I read 95db ! The engineers didn't foresee that when they built the extension.

What does bis stand for in 7bis?

@@seamusmckeon9109 It's a way of saying "two". It made its way into French (and English) from Latin, which took it from Greek, which took it from Sanskrit. Say you build a house between number 7 and 9. 8 is taken on the other side of the street, so the new house becomes 7bis. Same with the metro line.

Ah yes, an oversight it seems!

@@RMTransit I think you got confused with the 4 other planned stations on the line 11 which didn't get funding yet (the Rosny-Bois-Perrier to Noisy - Champs section). They are still technically planned, so they may come to life one day !

Sounds like overkill. There is such as thing that if too many stations and stopping so frequent people walk or take something faster.

Bonsoir … non …

@xr6lad There’s nothing really faster than the metro in Paris, and most people use it daily… the ridership figures speak for themselves… sorry but you’re wrong in this case

I'm a Brit - so always nervous compaining about others' pronunciations. But it really grated the way he said 'gare' as 'gair', instead of 'gar'. Is that the French Canadian pronunciation?

@@rogink I'm not sure. I live about 4,000 km west of Canada's main French-speaking Canadian regions and have never been to Quebec. My very limited French doesn't help. It's possible you're right though.

@@rogink As a French Canadian, no, we pronounce gare with an even deeper "a" then the French, meaning closer to "gore".

Who else thought he said he is now sixteen and went to Paris in 1999

That hopping off while the train is still moving will be missed when all those classic trains will disappear (very soon) !

What a beautifull comment, being born and raised in Paris, i got instant images, feelings and memories while Reading your comment, like the very curved Bastille station on ligne 1, i mean it's true, and seems to be the only station like that, and that feeling when holding up the door's lever and seeing those doors open while the metro is still moving and hoping off, i may add the noise of the comprised air being released signaling the doors can be open. Since then i've lived in city like Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne with their more modern metro which are very good, but the Paris metros speacially the old ones have a certain charm.

Yeah actually this is why I preferred to stand up because it's really fun to see the car behind you toss and turn on the sharp bends.

This little lever is disappearing on all lines, unfortunately. Ugly push buttons, now.

Interestingly, Munich still has the old wagons with wooden interior that the Paris metro had before the ones you see in this video. They were retired at the end of the 1970s.

True, the busses in Rome could be overcrowded

Well, being fully automated doesn’t necessarily make operating overnight all that much easier! It often has more to do with the lines infrastructure design! Thanks for watching!

@@RMTransit yeah, but we have to say it is one of the only downsides that the metro system has !

@@haraldlenudpilc A system needs to have down time for track maintenance when the system has only one set of tracks for each line. The New York Subway, on the other hand, has two sets of tracks for a line and therefore can run 24 hours.

@@RaymondHng on the other hand the New York subway is in an awful state of repair... Maybe they should close like a couple nights a week

@@RaymondHng But you can have downtimes in the week and 24hr service from Friday to Sunday. Would this be Possible with Paris Infrastructure? Berlin does it that way and I think the infrastructure is comparable.

don't all big cities have that kind of commuter rail? just without the RER

It’s less special than the RER and is a fairly standard commuter network but I probably will still make a video eventually

@@RMTransit id rather see videos about other cities

I like that style of naming especially when lines don’t really follow a single geographic axis!

Here in cologne lines are numbered and display in which direction they're going by the last station, so it's not that uncommon

@@jan-lukas Not unusual, but as I said it took a bit of familiarisation, especially as I was unaware of the various locations. It was a learning curve.

Now the metro is much more dangerous, the great replacement of french per African and Arabic have been working at full speed since 1970-1980… so… much more crime.

The lack of trams in the center and on radial directions is the biggest problem of Paris PT. 'Coz only them are able to relish the overcrowded P-metro for reasonable price and time of construction. Hope that Ann Idalgo will do smthg about it

@@Whitebeard79outOfRus There will never be a tram in the Paris center. Or only in the Seine Bank. The streets are protected and iconic.

@@walideg5304 There's no law preventing it. It's more that there's just too much traffic (not only cars but also bikes, buses, delivery trucks and even pedestrians). As such it would probably be too slow to really compete with the metro which is already dense enough (as explained in the video). There are 2 tram lines which may be extended within central Paris though. The first one is T9 which may be expanded to Place d'Italie in order to connect with the multiple lines out there (M5, M6 and M7). The second one is T8 which will be expanded to Rosa Parks, it is considered to expanded further into Paris using former "petite ceinture" rail tracks. That would definitely make of it a super cool tramway line!

Seems to be something that London underground has certainly paid attention to

I think a big accessible program will be in the works at some point. It will be pricey but very important!

yes it's a problem and i think it will be complucated for some years many stations are build in very narrow spaces and it's very complicated to build elevators for example

@@danielkelly2210 Pickpockets will be happy to help you solve the luggage problem...

Great you mentioned this issue. Visited paris a few weeks back and was hugely disappointed by the old rakes with too much noise around the curve and yes with the infrastructure like ticket gate, accessibility issue and its maintenance.

Actually, whilst the route and size of the Glasgow Subway remains unchanged its trains and at some stations the platform layouts have changed. Soon it will be experiencing more major changes - new fully driverless trains, etc!

Soooo true 😂 And it's very stylish to open the doors like that before the train comes to a complete stop!

Nice explanations! I will just add a few notes: - line 12 extensions are as old as the Nord-Sud itself and some were planned precisely since the 30s and still not getting built... and the northern extension to Aubervilliers was planned to go to Saint-Denis back then. - the 7bis bridge above the quarry is in fact a urban myth : it was filled in first, they they drove piles down the soil to reach the bedrock up to 14m below at Danube station and structure strengthening walls have been dug latterly at many places along the line. So it's not really a bridge in the conventional term but it reuses some of its techniques. iirc there is a maintenance gallery running under it. - the line 11 extension was mostly thrown away due to the construction of lines 17 and 18, because TOD are already being built along this line which might never see the light of day... - as for M15 service patterns, the video was based on what was said in one of the latest reports from GPE when they tried to dismantle the Champigny tracks allowing looping services. It will most probably be run as you told internally but it would be invisible to passengers anyway

Someone should breed a train enthusiast with an audiophile and see what we get.

Why so little amount of likes?

The original Vienna 1970's metro cars are like that, powered doors but with a mechanical handle to start. Later ones have a button, but none of them just all open and close like with most (?) subways.

Actually, back to the 1950s and 1960s, yes you had to manually open the doors, but they would close semi-automatically. In addition to the driver, there was a second employee, who would stand by his open door, check that all doors were clear, and then press a button which would active a pneumatic system pushing pistons at each door to close them. Then when the metro was at speed in the tunnel, the pressure would be deactivated (to save on wear and tear), so that conceivably... yes you could open the doors while the train was running!

Lines 6, 10 ans 12 still have these doors !

They were on the RER B trains when I was going there in the early 2000s I think.

About the scent, did you know from where it comes ? to limit metallic particles in the air generating pollution and causing signalling problems, we use wooden brake pads dipped in vegetable oil (peanut for example) to protect them from fire and reduce breaking noise!

@@LeGrandJuju49 Is that what you use in Paris? Not sure which country you are in! It's not a bad scent - it's hard to describe - I think steam comes up from the underground in Paris and it could in part be a hot steam scent - a bit like the scent in the subway system in Manhattan!!! Transit is so fascinating.

@@christinecamley Sorry, I'm Julian and I live near Montparnasse station in Paris. Rubber tyred lines also have an additional smell coming from the old trains running on them on line 11 and 6. Line 1 and 4 have trains generating less heat and part of the odor left a bit.

@@christinecamley yes brake pads are made of oil scented wood. There's also some specific scent added to the cleaning ingredients, that's the one most people notice. The very important thing when it comes to Paris Subway scent is that it's all naturally aerated on the historic lines ( read : there's no fan pumping air from outside into the subway system ). Line 14 and modern extensions have fans moving air around as well as the RER A, B & D. ( C is not deep enough, the aeration is done by vents in the side opening in the walls over the Seine )

@@tenalafel Wow. Really interesting.

Thank you!

I noticed this too, the host is Canadian, perhaps this is the Quebec way to say the word "gare"?

@@imsbvs No, it's not the Quebec way at all. Reece's mother tongue is English and he's from British Columbia I think.

@@FreewayFranks Reece: "Yew-Bahn"!

@@emjayay What?

@@FreewayFranks U-Bahn with the U pronounced like in English, not as 'oo' like in German.

Berlin is as dense as Houston and has a similar population, but still has 9 subway lines and 16 s bahn lines

(as well as 22 tram lines and 200 bus lines) Low density doesnt mean you cant have world class transit

I was surprised to read that Hamburg unlike many other German cities got rid of its tram network in 1978! Still the city has nearly 1,000 km of U and S-Bahn which for a 5+ million metropolitan area is really good.

I love it too but this a kind of dangerous.

I love it too as I enjoy getting out of the train while it's still running. However I'm less of a fan now because covid made me a lot more paranoid. These things are touched by hundreds of different people every single day.

I mean as a single Network

Ah, I really think the RER needs special distinction! Transilien is a fairly standard commuter network but the RER….

@@RMTransit Yeah but there are some examples (The U line) that helps to connect the lines together without going through the core of the urban area (especially Châtelet - Les Halles Station), and in some trains (RER C and D, operated by SNCF) the RER lines are mentioned as different lines, but still a part of the Transilien network (Even though they are more conventional than RER, but still frequent and running high capacity trains). and on some corridors, the transilien lines operates as express RER lines that can also be express metro line etc.. etc...

@@RMTransit Interesting fact about RER and Transilien is that some RER are Transilien lines. For the moment 2 operators run the rails services in Paris, SNCF and RATP. SNCF being the national operator, they created brands to differenciate their activies : TGV (high speed trains), TER (Regional train), Intercités (long distance low speed trains) and Transilien (Paris/Ile de France). So, the lines they operates in Paris (Train lines H,J,K,L,N,P,R,U, Tramway lines T4 and T11 and RER lines C,D and E) are all branded Transilien. For the line A a small section is operated by SNCF so only this part is Transilien and the rest of the line is operated by RATP. The line B is split in two, half is run by RATP and the other half is run by SNCF (so Transilien).

You translated "Tu gères mec"

Enjoy! Lines 4, 12 and 14 already have some extensions open. The most recent line M12 (North end) new stations are quite weird aesthetically speaking. They are whiter than a dentist office... Not really convinced by the design choice to be honest. But the recent new stations on the North end of line M14 are really nice and the new ecofriendly / vegetalized neighborhood served by the new M14 Pont Cardinet and Porte de Clichy stations has great buildings and stunning views. (It's rue Mstislav Rostropovich and neighboring park up to Avenue de Clichy to the East and the "stepped tower" of the new main courthouse to the North). Being GPEx-adjacent, all existing M11 stations have been modified and upgraded to be ready for the major extension of the line to the East, up to M15, opening in a few months. If you haven't been in Paris for some time, there are a bunch of new Tram lines in the suburbs : T9, departing from Porte de Choisy (13th district) is particularly nice and well done. If you need tips and advice, don't hesitate !

A comment said it above but I highly recommend you to take the line 6 and pass throught stations Passy and Bir-Hakim for the magnificent view of the Eiffel Tower. The line passes above the Seine and at night, it's way more beautiful !

The story behind theses points is interesting : 1. Paris metro run on the right because it is an emanation of tramway engineering and not mainline train engineering, hence it runs right-handed as tramways used to. Also, some mainline trains run on the right-hand side in Alsace and Lorraine. 2. choosing the between 4 small doors (angled on 60s trains car ends, which is quite unique!) or 3 wide doors already happened before the 60s too. interestingly, with people growing taller, and how French people stand in front of doors, the 3 wide doors per car was choose as superior since the late 70s. But even between 3 doors car trains, they are not positioned the same. As such, line 13 PSDs will need to be demolished and rebuilt for new MF19 trains... 3. This is not the reason at all, as Cité station doesn't see that much traffic compared to other stations : the line connects together 3 major railway stations and Les Halles. The line is very busy from people leaving Transilien services at Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est and Gare Montparnasse and heading towards Chatelet and back mostly.

@@LeGrandJuju49 well, last time I was in Paris (and that was two weeks ago give or take) there was a lot of people on the cite station. But mostly what I ment was that serving a super touristy spot on top of these connections is what pushes the line even further into the busy land. As for Alsce-Lorraine I beluve mainland trains run there on the right because the biggest railway construction period in Europe was roughly from 1860's to 1910's and the region spent most of this time as part of Germany (between Franco-Prussian war and WWI) which runs it's trains on the right.

@@mancubwwa Exactly ! And we then were too lazy to rebuild signals and stations for running on the other side (cost), so we built overpasses to connect it to the rest of the network. And about line 4, I live on it and use it every day to go to and from work. Cité serves the Cathedral but also the Police prefecture and the former court, but RER B does the same and the proximity with places where it's nice to walk around makes people go there by other means. Although, many tourist groups use M4 but it's nothing (2 109 969 persons entering per year) compared to chatelet (13 466 536 persons entering per year) or even Odeon (5 896 554 persons entering per year) for example. (data RATP numbers)

@@LeGrandJuju49 and RER C, it's not as if the bridge was long to cross from the C exit.

@@LeGrandJuju49 Line 13 PSDs will be taken off and replaced by Line 4 style PSDs also because the 1.70m high PSDs were deemed insufficient at their job to prevent passenger to get on the tracks, plus Line 13 platforms were not enhanced properly as Line 1, 4 and 11 were (yes Line 11 was remade to accomodate PSDs because when the GPX project was launched, the line was supposed to be automated but it won't likely happen unless the line is extended to Noisy)

What? 120 trains per minute? I think you ment 120 trains per hour.

In terms of trains per hour, Châtelet-Les Halles is also the second busiest in Europe after Clapham Junction, which has 126 per hour. Clapham of course is not underground.

@@kartik_sinha yes 120 trains per hour. In theory 36 trains each way per hour peak for the RER B & D they share the tunnel between CLH and Gare du Nord, so it's a huge limiting factor, if each had it's own tunnel it. Add the RER A ( 24 to 36 trains per hour and way ). Since it's almost impossible to reach 36 trains per hour in the CLH/GdN tunnel due to the various issues on each line on average that 7 tracks underground station sees 120 trains per hour. The station could see more trains if the CHL/GdN tunnel was doubled to allow RER C and RER D separation... that's a main chokepoint for both line that will have to be addressed at some point as it impacts both line regularity and performance.

Yeah, for sure its traffic is very important, and as you says, it's becamed highly overcrowded over the years because it's too centralized on Paris while the number of suburb to suburb trips is becoming more important. This why a new network such as the Grand Paris Express was necessary to decentralize activities and the transit network while linking the major activity centers and give a new option for suburb to suburb trips. As someone living in Île de France, I'm looking forward to this since I use the network a lot when I need to go somewhere and I hope it will fix the actual status. Note: Counting the Transilien (1300km) and the Réseau Express Régional (585km), Paris or the Île de France urban rail network length is at 2100km, 2300km counting the Grand Paris Express for the part that will be in service in 2030. The IDF network also as really developed tram and express tram (train-tram) network with over 156km of tramways.

@@richardwills-woodward5340 Big difference between Paris and London or Tokyo is density. Paris is at 20k inhabitants per km² for its metro area while London is at 3,9k and 6,2k. Useful to have them in mind when comparing network length. I think it also affects train length too indirectly.

This is What will happen in Orly for sure. At Saint Denis Pleyel, this is very plausible. The only other technique is what they did in 1981 when they built Gare du Nord underground RER B station : they built both halves separately then broke through the wall between the two at key locations.

Eh eh, but have you tried the real Parisian driver's nightmare ? The "Place de l'Étoile" (Arc de Triomphe plaza) special rule roundabout ? I used to regularly cross it on a bike, and.. oh my ! The scariest and worst nightmare of any bike and car driver. Unlike other roundabouts, here entrants have priority over the ones already on it. That creates an interesting dynamic to say the least.

@@KyrilPG ahahahaha i used to live in nice the first I drove around l’arc I cried 😭😭

@@leviveiga283 Really ? That's what I would have expected from anyone except people living and driving in Nice. That Promenade des Anglais seaside boulevard where they squeezed an extra lane without broadening the road is quite a shitshow too... I remember friends folding their sideview mirrors to avoid collisions with other lanes' cars because the lanes were too narrow and the traffic so intense. But yeah, Place de l'Étoile is the merry-go-round from hell. It will apparently soon become a thing of the past as there are massive plans to modify and upgrade the whole "historical axis" from Concorde plaza to Étoile. They will heavily vegetalize and partly pedestrianize the whole avenue and its plazas with slower, reduced and low priority car traffic. Right now, every wannabe driver being trained in a Parisian driving school fears mainly 2 things : The Périphérique at rush hour and the Place de l'Étoile at rush hour exercises... They both have that strange rule of entrances having priority over those already on. That rule and the brutal driving there give nightmares to all learning or non Parisian drivers.

Yes... twice and with a slightly different tonality, the second one always sounding a bit resigned 😀

So does London - the first and oldest

Yes enough with capital cities, we want to see Barcelona and Marseille and Glasgow!

@@zied6456 Give Reece some rest! His output is incredible and he'll get there eventually.

@@etbadaboum Dégages le troll!

NYC has extended two lines by a few stations in 50 years. One line stops halfway down Brooklyn for no reason.

Thank you!

Loads of work to make to nice to cycle in though! Let's see what they can offer for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

There are different cards called Navigo.

Tickets have been terminated very recently, for the metro at least. Now it's all digital and you'll be able to pay with your smartphone very soon.

4 metro lines for a city of 2 million people isn't such a small number! Even in Europe there are many cities of similar size which don't have that many metro lines. Not to mention the city is also served by 7 modern tram lines and pretty iconic funiculars.

That is something I’m sadly not sure of….

@@RMTransit I know, I just noticed that when looking at the map… As always, great video!

Hello, i was looking at where is saint cloud stop of line 15 and the thing that after crossing the seine it gets hilly very fast so we would have to go under or over the seine and then go up very fast which might not be so easy to do for a metro same problem for Suresnes but made worst because it's higher in altitude and across from the forest

@@clementbouvard8457 Ok, thank you for the clarification.

The M10 station was built in front of the Seine river bed without space to go underneath. So it would be a costly operation, but stop spacing is short but not unheard of in Paris. Also, line 10 is 500m from the T2 station I guess it did not justify itself and would indeed need a deep station under a fragile highway bridge

Parisians passionately arguing? Unpossible!

Same thing in Britain... They use the same TRACK gauge as the continent, but their trains are narrower, so that their [military] trains can be used on the continent (e.g., to invade), but continental ones cannot be used in England (they cannot be invaded). Smart,. right ?

@@emileokal7752 I thought the best defense they ever had outside the Royal Navy was the pre decimalised currency system. Legend had it that German spies in WWII were caught by getting befuddled by pence/farthings/etc.

What about the fare system? Now we have rechargeable cards like anywhere else.

@@augth It wasn’t available at every station so I had to get tickets

New trains with air conditioning are planned in the coming years, on all lines where there are not yet.

@@lilwill06 Really? NFC system exists for Navigo cards (monthly passes) since the 1990's, so they are really available everywhere. As a matter of fact, it's more single-use ticket readers which are no longer available in all stations. EDIT: or maybe you used something with a special fee like Orlyval?