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Facts and Figures

Operator RATP
System Type Metro
Year Opened 1900
# of Lines 14 + 2 branches
# of Cars 3406
Mileage 131 miles
Gauge Std
Stations 297
Power 3rd Rail
Fare Media Magnetic Tkts
Website RATP
Data Date 2006
1st Visit 11/99
Last Visit 3/09
% Rode 70%

Paris Transit
Metro

Paris

The 14 Line Paris Metro is a wonderful system. The Metropolitan turned 100 years old in 2000. The system is well laid out, with one never more then 500 yards from a metro entrance in center city. The station and tunnels are unique in the metro world. The lines have two track vaulted tunnels with no center columns. Most of the stations mimic the tunnels with side platforms with no supporting beams. This makes for easy photography (during non-rush hours). 

Paris is the first city to introduce rubber tired metros on Line 11. Later lines 1,4 and 6 were converted to rubber tires. With the rubber tires, the trains are quiet on curves and accelerate and brake quicker then steel rail lines. However steel rails are still there and the trains still have steel wheels on each truck. The steel is used for turnouts and just in case a tire blows out.

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Terminal
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Terminal

Line 1
Rubber

20

10

La Defense Chateau de Vincennes

Line 2
Steel

14

4 Porte Dauphine Nation

Line 3
Steel 6 2 Pont de Levallois Becon Gallieni

Line3b
Steel 6 2 Porte De Lilas Gambetta

Line 4
Rubber 4 2 Porte de Clignancort Porte d'Orleans

Line 5
Steel 14 4 Bobigny Pablo Picasso Place d'Italie

Line 6
Rubber 16 6 Charles de Gaulle Etiole Nation

Line 7
Steel 13 5 La Courneuve 8 Mai 1945 - Villejuif-Louis Aragon
- Mairie d'Ivry

Line7b
Steel 5 2 Louis Blanc Pre St-Gervais

Line 8
Steel 7 3 Balard Creteil-Prefecture

Line 9
Steel 30 7 Pont de Sevres Mairie de Montreuil

Line 10
Steel 13 4 Boulongne Pont de St-Cloud Gare d'Austerlitz

Line 11
Rubber 3 2 Chatelet Mairie des Lilas

Line 12
Steel 14 5 Porte de la Chapelle Mairie d'Issy
Line13 Steel 18 3 - Les Courtilles
-Saint-Denis Universite
Chatillon-Montrouge

Line 14
Rubber 9 2 Saint-Lazare Olympiades
MISC   11   Car interior Work Equipment

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