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Paris is my dream city
yeah no, dirty, stinky, crowded
Just curious, UK’s metro and Paris’s metro seems similar, comparing these 2 to Japan and HK, what are their similarities and differences? Just curious
From a French living in Paris, the metro system is all exept the best… 😂
I don’t know whether this is still the case … but when I was growing up, France supplied the trains to our first subway system in Caracas, Venezuela. I rode on one of the inaugural rides, when it opened in ‘82 or ‘83 (I forget which year exactly), and it was sleek and modern and beautiful. I believe we used rubber tires, too, so it was also quite quiet!
Quite a contrast to visiting my grandmother in Chicago, Illinois, and riding what were then often 30-year-old or even 40-year-old cars, built in the ‘40s and ‘50s with wicker seats and accordion doors and no a/c, screeching noisily around on steel tracks elevated up on wooden beams built over 100 years ago!!
Having since moved to Illinois myself, I’ve grown quite fond of our el (and we did get new cars in the late ‘80s, shortly after I relocated), but what a contrast … the USA really does need to give more love to its public transportation.
Paris has a remarkable system, certainly. But, to say it's the best is saying too much. You have certainly not seen the Chinese metros (Guandong, Beijing, etc…), unless you consider that China is not part of the World. Look at the Moscow or Saint-Petersburg metro : masterpieces of everything (tracing, internal and external connection with other major stations, beauty of stations with unusual decoration, extraordinary operability, quick ability to cover anywhere in the city in a lapse of time. But the only problem, for me, is : their trains although fast, are old and noisy on many lines. I did not like that! On the other hand, when it's on the Chinese side, everything is perfect and silent.
Definitely one of the best metro systems, there are so many lines going into and out of the city in various directions, and the city center is laced with so many stations that you barely have to walk from one place to another. Loved it when I visited, and the littering and scammers aside, a great experience to ride. Some of the stations like le chatelet and gare du nord are huge!
Vive à mon réseau ferroviaire
Is the RER A line to Disneyland Paris not considered a metro line? It sure does feel like it starting at Chatelet Less Halles going to Nation and far out of the city center to Marne-La-Vallée.
As a parisian (sort of, I don't live within the Périphérique) I find it strange that you didn't talk more about the RER because while they are not called "metro", they are very much interconnecting parts of the metro system. I'd consider them more as a "metro" than the future line 18 for instance
Going to Paris soon and thank you. Your explanation made all the sense in the world easier.
Very nice video ! Thank you for taking the time to make it ! You just forgot to mention a small train station in Paris at the begining of the video : the Bercy train station 🙂
I know mayor cities in strong economy see I would love to show some spotlight to the metro system of Santiago Chile. Please make a video
What also is really great of the paris metro is close to Opera station. It contains a big shaft/chamber of 20 meters high with 3 lines crossing each other on various depths. It's line 3, 7 and 8. I am amazed about the construction which was done early 1900
This video just popped up in my youtube feed, and as a parisian, my first reaction is "man if the parisian metro is the best, how awful are the others" 😂😂🥲🥲
I'd love to see a video on Budapest! The second oldest metro in the world (if I'm not mistaken) and one of the best connected tram networks with an insane amount of lines. Happy to help too seeing I grew up in the city and go back regularly.
Not the greatest ; it's heavily air polluted.
I live in the center of Paris and use the metro every day. I don't have a car and only rent one for weekends and vacation. The metro and RER system is indeed great here. The average waiting time for the next metro is usually about 3 minutes only which is no burden as all. Metros are also great if you like readin books. I was never a big reader by since I live here I finish about 300 pages per week on in transport. Only the SNCF operated RER to Charles de Gaulle seems to have a lot of strikes which is quite annoying for tourists and for anyone going to and from the aeroport. Metro lines have much fewer strikes than RER's.
The station of Haussman-Saint-Lazarre-Auber is also a big gare with many correspondances. Indeed, there is so many that it includes some stations in itself. Indeed there is RER A at Auber, RER E at Haussmann-Saint Lazarre, Transilien J and L at Gare Saint Lazarre, Métro 7 and 8 at Opera, Métro 9 at Havre-Caumartin, Métro 12, 13 and 14 at Saint Lazarre and Métro 9 at Saint Lazarre, Havre-Caumartin and Opéra. This gare is really useful !
You should make a video to explain to the world (including parisians people) how it is possible with RER C, in order to going Paris from Versailles-Chantier or Versailles-rive-gauche, you have to take the RER in direction Versailles-Chantiers. I know it is complicated to admit… 😂
They need to add air conditioning to the metro. It gets nasty and hot in there!
I was in Paris 3 months ago for the first time. I visited A LOT of landmarks, monuments in 2 days and half thanks to the metro systems. Tour eiffel, arc de triomphe, musee du louvre, les catacombes, the pantheon, montmartre, victor hugo's house, gardens of luxembourg, le sacre coeur, notre-dame… after this little holiday i was so tired (my feet were burning 😅), but also very happy, i love history, art, science and observing alive what i studied on books was so satisfying. Wish we had similar metro here in italy, but in the biggest cities like Milan and Rome there are only few lines… it's not so simple for people moving across the cities, and that's also why we italians use cars a lot and buses are overcrowded
Very comprehensive video thanks!🙂
The line 6 is obsolete but I love it 😍😍😍
Basically, the Parisian metro was built to serve the Parisians (there was even an abandoned concurrent project that should only connect the railway stations, but it was useless for the population of Paris, it was imagined to serve mainly the train users).
It has two main features :
– wherever you live in Paris, you must have a station in a 500 meters perimeter around your home,
– wherever you want to go in Paris, from the point you are in the city, you'll have at most two metro changes.
These two features are, in my opinion, the reason why the Parisian metro is one of the best in the world.
Awesome video! It's a very good synthesis of the stuff to know about the Paris Metro! With regard to the frequency of the trains, line 1 at the busiest hours runs a train every 40 seconds!
And this is without even covering the vast complimentary RER network of high volume, high speed limited stop lines that traverse Paris.
You forgot to mention it is the most criminal and dangerous metro. Girls avoid it at nights and pickpockets are ruling.
Btw I live in Paris
Speed is actually really good in the Paris metro. Trains rarely stay put for more than a few seconds at a time and the doors close quickly. Missing a metro is never an issue either because the next one will most likely be there in about 2 maybe 3 minutes. Paris is the only city in which I have always picked the subway over buses. I usually like to see where I am and take in the city as well as get some light, but the Metro is just too good to avoid. The only real downside is the size of the carriages and the number of people that use it during rush hours. In recent years I've also noticed a huge deterioration of the level of comfort in the Metro, seats are hard, both in the stations and on the trains. I remember when even the flip down seats had plump padding.
i'm parisian : paris metro is not the best. It's good but not perfect.
some line are slow and old some are great
you should check out the Singapore metro system. Flaws I found in Paris Metro, are overcrowded and not enough escalators or lifts, and not connected to the bus system like in Singapore. It's good but not the best
Love transportation in China, Western Europe except the UK, Japan and South Korea.
Guess where I love to travel.
A nice description. But… Gare is pronounced in French as “gar”. The way you pronounce it sounds more like another French word: guerre. Which means war.
Nation in French means the same thing as in English, but is pronounces as “Nass-yawn”, not “nashawn” as you did.
I've been living in Paris for 2 years now. People complain a lot because the subway is often crowded, not extremely clean, and there might be a few delays from time to time but they don't realize how efficient it is, how lucky they are to have so many Subway lines and stations in such a small city
World best metro system?
What a joke.
It is dirty, dangerous with way too much robber and agression…. No aircon, very bad cellphone coverage, and old train in most line…. And did I said dirty and dangerous?
Ha yes, also too many stop, so too slow to cross the city.
Shanghai metro is way better: fast, 100% safe, ultra modern, clean, perfect 5G, fast, and growing by 40km a year.
PS: I am french living in Shanghai
Unfortunately, the metro here is very often overcrowded, which is annoying
It means it's extra efficient, but it's also tiring day after day
Bucharest Metro is something to behold if you’re into exploring different ones