In general, as a Dutchman I am impressed by the choices made in Paris to support pedestrians and bicycles over cars. They are doing a great job.

Well done. Jane Jacobs wrote about the kind of cities that people really want to live in back in 1962. Nice to see we're heading that direction.

There are other transportation means in the Paris transit "layer cake", namely the RER, which is the regional express heavy metro system. These lines go deep into the suburbs and use super high capacity trains. Plus, the Transilien network, which is a set of 8 groups of lines of more conventional suburban trains. All these form the 4 main layers of the rail based transit system in Paris : metro network, RER express regional heavy metro network, tram network, and Transilien network. Though, for proper high-speed, high capacity suburb to suburb journeys, there will soon be massive new lines. It's a humongous project called the Grand Paris Express. It currently includes about 200 kilometers of new lines and extensions : 4 entirely new lines, including a gigantic 75km loop line fully deep underground. 3 extensions to 2 existing lines. 84 stations, of which 68 are on the new lines and 16 on the extensions. Currently, more than 100km of these lines' tunnels have been built, with only 80km of tunnels remaining to dig (the rest, about 20km, are on viaducts, in trenches or at grade). Another 5th new line, M19, has been officially proposed recently and would add between 25 and 35km more. It will probably be part of a GPE-2 project to follow. All these lines are in the inner-mid and sometimes mid-outer suburbs, forming mostly arched and tangential lines with huge capacity. The 4 new lines of the initial state of the GPE project are expected to have a daily ridership over 3 million when they'll fully open. All the extensions to existing lines (M11 East, M14 North & South) are opening in June. And M15 South, the first 35km section of the giant loop will open in Q4 2025. Another project, the first phase of the Western extension of RER line E, opens today (Monday 6th of May). It's an 8km extension dug deep underground under the Western side of Paris' core and the skyscraper forest of its Western business district called la Défense. 3 huge new stations open today, including 2 giant underground cavernous cathedrals that are gorgeous. It really is transit-a-palooza in Paris these days.... And I didn't even mentioned the many many tram line extensions that are being built or planned, like the T1 extensions you mentioned. And also the first multi-station urban gondola line that's due to open next year called Cable C1. Plus, a set of proper trambus - busway BRT lines using 24m long electric double bendy busses from Van Hool, with Alstom ground recharge systems and a great slick futuristic look. Another good example of replacing car infrastructure is the "Maréchaux boulevards", which are circular boulevards running around the core city just slightly inner from the Périphérique inner ring road. They used to have massive and noisy traffic. Then these boulevards were mostly remodeled to host the T3a & T3b circular tram lnes. These 2 lines have crazy high ridership for a tram, about twice the entire daily ridership of LA Metro or Chicago's L... Great video!

Im a car guy and car fan, but i think noone should be able to ignore how cool and incredibly efficient railroads are.

Parisian transit nerd here. 10/10, no notes. Here's a few ideas for further Paris transit/highway videos viewers might like: - A10 diversion for LGV Atlantique - never built "voie de desserte orientale" in the eastern inner suburbs - no relation to transit and IMHO should have never been built, but A86 Duplex is plain cool engineering

Paris regional transports are not only tramways, but also local trains (transilien and RER), regional trains (TER) and buses (A lot of them). If you put them on a map, it will show a very different picture. But you're right on one very important point, Paris is moving away from cars and it's a good thing. I live 65 kms from the paris city center and I never use my car to go to Paris. I always use public transport.

Pasadena’s residents were plenty wealthy enough to have the time and resources to be able to fight back against something they didn’t like. Thousands of other places weren’t as lucky

Paris has followed Tokyo and Singapore path of people centric development and not a car centric anymore

Your editing and content is beyond fantastic! Look forward to your 100K sub special my friend :)

Should have shown RER and SNCF local lines, not just metro and tram lines. Unless they connect with RER or SNCF some of the tram lines appear to be isolated in the suburbs.

Great high quality content. Wish London would follow Paris's lead in expanding our existing tram network in the south!

I like your use of transparent maps instead of CGI graphics. Very creative

American living in Paris for several years now, I continue to be impressed with the transport infrastructure here. The grand Paris express is a big topic on this part of KZfaq at the moment, and for good reason, but I'd enjoy seeing your take on it! Or to be a little different, maybe the actual stations themselves in Paris? La Défense, Gare de Lyon, Auber, Chatalet...especially in the RER sections, I find all of these stations more impressive than Union station in Chicago or DC, which are among the best of what the US has to offer. Great quality video & narration, excited to see your channel grow!

I live in rural nc, I think an under-estiamted effect of the lack of rail, and subways in the USA is the individual mentality, I do my errands on my time, using my car, It would be interesting if NC did get more rail in it rural outskirts but this is unlikely due to the cost, and sprawl.

I absolutely loved how succinct and effective your video was. The transparents sheets are a really nice touch ! Loved everything really !

Incredible video with great production quality! Keep it up!

One worthwhile example to compare is Auckland, New Zealand. Population 1.4m and growing. Traditionally Auckland had a very busy tram network covering most of the city. Replaced by buses in 1950s, it might have presented some speed and flexibility benefits at the time but on the busiest corridors buses were never going to have enough capacity to deal with the demand. Auckland has had a pretty disfunctional railway forever, and should have built a tunnel they are finally building now (City Rail Link) which will at last allow the train network to service the core of the city and improve speeds and frequencies massively. But the busiest bus corridors are full and need more capacity, Auckland's freeway network is can't be expanded without enormous cost and disruption, and the entire surface transport system is struggling to meet demand. Simple conversion of strategic parts of the freeway to support a light rail network to serve the highest demand centres would expand capacity of these corridors massively, and avoid expensive freeway tunnels etc. Unfortunately the Government backed down from the project after trying to change the scope to become more of an underground metro line which was largely unecessary and would have lead to worse outcomes for 3-4 times the price. But the issues haven't gone away!

Very well documented and accurate, good job ! You forgot RER lines, which are by far the main network used by commuters. 308 millions passengers/year for RER A only !

like here in luxembourg, it had a big tramway net but it got all removed but then years later the city had a car problem, so they started to build a new tramway from the Luxexpo to the Roud Bréck at first, later they extened it further and further they also made streets smaller or one way only so the tram can fit and since public transport is free, many people use it me included

I really love your style of videos! You are making some cool stuff!

Great job, bon travail.

This is a really good video, and a really great channel by extension. I really enjoy the writing, the narration and the editing. Well done, you earned a new sub!

Really good quality for such a small channel. Subscribed

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

Fantastic video. Love urbanist/transit content that also covers suburban areas.

loved this video, great work!

Great video and the length is perfect!

Amazing video !!!

The density of interesting information you managed to put into such a short video was really impressive, well done.

Excellent video! I love the visual showcase with layered slides of Paris!

amazing video!

wowww, this is a super cool video on a super cool topic! Lovely editing especially!

Very good and stylish. On your maps you don’t include the RER, why?

Great video!

Just add one more lane (of railways).

Excellent vid! The visuals were awesome and really helped convey the point. Felt like the conclusion could have been a little more emphasized, as is the video feels like it ends a little abruptly. Subscribed and looking forward to future videos!

insanely well vid

great video

cool video, thanks

Nice little video

In contrast, it's very depressing to see the government of Berlin cutting fresh wounds into the urban fabric to complete their inner beltway, while holding off on opening finished bike lanes.

As a French person, I can tell you that this video is very cool and very interesting. Congratulations ! 👏 Indeed, the extension of the T1 is progressing rapidly. It will be opened in 2 phases: first from Noisy-le-Sec to Rue de Rosny, and then from Rue de Rosny to Val de Fontenay. As for the dates, I don't know because it changes every 6 months 🤣. I can also tell you that many people make the mistake, as you mentioned, of only considering Paris when analyzing our capital, which is a mistake. When analyzing Paris, it is important to consider it on a regional scale (Île-de-France region) because Paris, unlike other capitals like Berlin, has not expanded since the enlargements under Napoleon III, which means that neighboring cities have become very important (for example, the economic district of La Défense is not in Paris... And this is the case for many other things). One of the few things I can correct in your video is that we also have other means of transportation for the suburbs, such as the Transilien, which is part of the national suburban network, or the RER which serves the suburbs while passing through Paris. So, the suburbs still have significant transport options. The biggest flaw in our network is that it operates in a "star" pattern, everything is centralized around Paris, so traveling from one suburb to another without passing through Paris is challenging, if not impossible (hence the idea of the Grand Paris Express). The best way to visualize all the Parisian lines is to switch to the transportation mode on Google Maps and see all the lines, which gives an overview of all the networks combined. However, significant improvements are possible on the suburban network (even though it's currently on the right track). As for the dependence on cars, it is important to note that it concerns more the departments known as the "Grande Couronne" (77, 78, 91, 95) which are more dependent on cars. The departments of the inner suburbs (92, 93, 94) are much less dependent due to the presence of transport networks. Although the overall importance of cars remains much lower than in the United States, since the first oil shock, numerous transport development policies have been implemented, so you really have to go far into the outer suburbs to find an area with no transportation options.

I really like the calm ease with which you take on this essay. Also, was that paper stop-motion your own?

nice video

I live in Melbourne Australia, and we have the biggest tram network in the world. I love trams. They really make Melbourne. Thank God unlike Sydney, we weren't stupid in the 1960s and got rid of them. I highly recommend interment Ing a tramway network.

You gave me more information about where I live than myself

10/10 for the clip of fans cheering at the highway removal

Thank you for the info, good to know! Hopefully, one day people replace a complete highway with mass transit, not just a stub. That would be an exciting day!

This is bugging me for some reason but I got to say this. The 710 /210 connection was killed by Rich, white, NIMBYs in Pasadena. Similarly, poor neighborhoods with black and Hispanic/ Latino people were told to kick rocks and had their home taken by Eminent Domain to build the 105, the fwy from Speed. The 710 was built primarily for containers from the port, but it just ends at West Valley blvd in Alhambra. This makes traffic take the streets or jump on the interstate 10 or 60 and then the 5 fwy. When part of the 10 fwy got damaged by fire, downtown was clogged by truck traffic. In short, if you’re rich and white, you get no freeways, NIMBYs secretly don’t want “other people” (PoC) to get there easily fearing crime. PoC neighborhoods get bent, you have an interstate in your back yard.

Thats cool, I wish here in Germany politicians would be that brave!

The tramway shown in your video thumbnail is the T3b which hasn't replaced a highway but a part of several boulevards

Something like this would have been unthinkable 50-60 years ago

This video massively overlooks the regional trains (RER and TER) that many times more people than the métro or tram. 2.7 million people take the RER every day (the RER connect suburbs to the city centre and among themselves in a star pattern)

> says "... and in the US" > shows Toronto Saying "... in Europe and North America" would be more correctly. Great video👍

Very good video, but to be more precise, when you show the suburbs of Paris, you only showed the cities which are part of the intercommunality, excluding the urban area of ​​the suburbs of Paris which is much larger. All you have to do is compare your blue circle with a satellite view. =D

Great job! More public transport!

People, people! Read the title of his video! He's not laying out all of Paris transit, he's showing that a locality can choose to take up a highway to lay down a tram. Single focus on a specific question that has been getting a lot of attention lately.

I've read all comments. And, though I do appreciate trams (trains even more so), I'm left questioning why there is a need for an investment in tramlines while a bus could do exactly the same at a fraction of the cost. Just close off the road entirely and make it bus only. Same as current planned design.

It wasn't I-710 from Pasadena to LB but it was back when it was state route 7.

3:50 "Noisy le Sec all the way to Val de Fontenay" Subtitles : "vastly Le Cirque all the way to Vodaphone to name" Yup 100% legit.

Montreal should watch and learn 😢

Someone already said it but it is difficult to talk about the traways of the Paris area without talking about the RER-Transilien network. This are mainly built along a periphery to center axis unlike most of the train, but they are doing what your saying the metro isnt doing very well! connecting the inner and outer suburbs to Paris and its center, not the traways.

Aw, my house was just a few hundred meters off from being seen at 1:06 x) But I wouldn't be that impacted by the T1 extension anyways. Instead we're getting the metro line 11 extension in a few months, with a station built a few steps away from my building 😁

Très bien fait! Par contre, la carte du métro de Paris ne comprend pas le RER, qui fait quand même une différence dans la petite et grande couronne

Very informative video. I live in the hyper center of Paris and I don’t own a car

La Suisse est un rare pays où vous pouvez allez sans voiture, même en montagne !

NANTES MENTIONNÉ !!

Fun fact: railroads never are used to deliver a loaf of bread to your local grocery store, or your grandma to the hospital

When you take a look at Lausanne, you will find this situation twice. Once from the east and the other one from the west.

cool

6:02 Pietons weren't prioritized, classic Paris, haha

Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes are in the city limits not in the inner suburbs.

At 2:48 the line 14 is outdated (it goes to Saint Ouen)

no trébuchet?

Thanks for the last images of where I grew up, le 19ème arrondissement, canal de l'Ourcq, canal Saint-Martin et la Villette ❤ the extreme center of Paris is overrated, artificial and full of tourists

Go Paris!

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Oh man. Please make a Patreon

and meanwhile Berlin, Germany is cutting down trees and remodelling parks to build a new highway in 2024...

Still those trams are not connected and they don't over much options in the eastern parts of Paris Metro area.

Well done Paris, Auckland n z city take note

Trust me you really don't wan't to take tramway T1 on a daily basis.

T3a and T3b almost circle paris. It is not in your map

Highways is such an American word... The more common wording around the world is "motorway", in many languages.

WELL DOME PARIS

Answer: Because the city planners had more than one braincell

Lol, the destruction of the A186 is a big fail, now all the A3 stuck all day adding 5-15min every day on peoples route. Also, "public transport" is extremely expensive and theses privates company survives only with the money gift by the country (all the country) to them and Parisian... yes 500k parisian got is for free and 11 000 000 peoples living in the suburbs have to pay 90€ monthly for it or stay at home due to the paris bad management

didn't talk much about the tram actually, very shoet, we didn't learn anything about the tram

Everything in your video is wrong or fake ... So as i live in Paris next to the tram : 1 - It WASN'T a highway, the Boulevards des Marechaux are avenues, with pathwalks, buildings and shops on it, and there even were alredy dedicated bus lines along it for the PC Bus. 2 - You are making a confusion between the boulevard peripherique and the boulevard des marechaux 3 - Parisians voted AGAINST this solution as the tram was supposed to roll on the abandoned petite ceinture railway line that follows the SAME BLOODT PATH 4 - The city decided to go AGAINST the vote and builded the tram on the avenue 5 - Using the abandoned petite Ceinture railway line North-South of paris would have been done in 20 minutes, it now takes two hours with a tram 6 - The tram is extremely slow, always stucked in traffic and there is no bloody AC inside, this is hell. 7 - The number of stations of the tram are smaller than those used by the former PC bus line 8 - The tram is slower than the former PC bus line 9 - The tram is so slow that it moves less people than the former dedicated PC bus line on the same path. 10 - Housing price along the tram path had exploded, and many of my friends had to move because of it, slowly turning those popular ceinture neighbors into rich ghetto 11 - THERE IS EVEN MORE TRAFFIC JAMS IN PARIS THAN BEFORE THAT GREENWASHED CRAP BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED BY THE HOLY FRUIT OF NEPOTISM AND INCOMPETENCE THAT CURRENTLTY RUNS OUR CITY ... Conclusion : I am not even using the tram anymore, it is shorter for me to wall 10 minutes to get to the subway than using this waste of public Money. This tram is a greenwashing pile of crap that is still not finished after almost 20 years of work, builded against the vote of parisians and doin a worst job at moving people than the bus he replaced. Bonus : the cicle lines installed along the tram are among the most dangerous you can ride with differences of levels, textures and inclinaisons not only at everyu intersection, but every bloody 10 meters ... So please next time, get more info on topics before dropping a video on it.

Did you slowed down your voice 1.25x to extend your video? XD Next time try to write a proper content...

It wouldn't be a real urban planning channel without throwing some racism accusations in there, huh? Just stop it.

I don't like your cynical way of talking and unnecessarily serious background music. Better titled Paris Trams T1 Is Extended Partly On Former Short Highway Spur.

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