Paris Transit Thread

[Busy Bee]

Paris sure knows how to build 'em. Way to go, it looks great!

[Minato Ku]

Video by ErebosSan
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[mousquet]

There's yet a problem. T8 repeatedly makes an irritating squeaking noise scratching one's eardrums when vehicles take a curve of the route. They'll have to fix that, it doesn't sound serious enough.

One should hardly can hear it coming in the hellish noise of car traffic. That's usually the better way it is.

T6 sounds normally smooth, however. But it goes on tires, which has been less reliable than regular rail so far.

[Minato Ku]

Western extension
Extension to Nanterre - la Folie: 2020
Extension to Mantes-la-Jolie: 2022
-Initial work will begin in October and the first tunnel boring machine will be activated in 2017.
Drilling of the tunnel will last one and half years.
-A new rolling stock will be ordered for the RER E. Three candidates are running for the new stock: Alstom/Bombardier, CAF and Siemens.
-This line will have a new operating system called NExTEO, it will reduce the headway to 108 seconds between trains.
-For easing of operation and to reduce the consequences of an incident on the entire line, trains from the east will terminate at Nanterre-la-Folie and trains from Mantes will terminate at Rosa Parks. The station Rosa Parks will open in December 2015.

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http://www.usinenouvelle.com/editori...-paris.N315236

[Minato Ku]

Versailles-Chantiers
Renovation and construction of a new concourse.

[Minato Ku]

Northern extension to Mairie de Saint-Ouen

Pont Cardinet

Located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, the Pont Cardinet station on line 14 will take place under the Martin Luther King Park.
It will serve the south of Clichy Batignolles district and the Saussure area on the other side of the tracks.
The main entrance of the station leads to Cardinet street facing the Square des Batignolles. It crosses the underground car park below the future road ZAC and opens on the ground floor of a proposed building of Clichy-Batignolles operation.
The secondary access leads in the future "North-South" street and is also located on the ground floor of a future building, near the future pedestrian bridge that will connect the Saussure sector martin Luther King Park.
The lifts are located in front of the pavilion of the clock and face the future new path.
Designed symmetrically on either side of a central empty space on 3 levels with a mezzanine.

Transfer with Transilien L (suburban rail) at Pont Cardinet railway station

Floor area: 4,290m²
Length: 120.5m
Width: 20.65m
Depth at the platform level: 20m

Porte de Clichy

Located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and parallel to the Avenue de la Porte de Clichy, Porte de Clichy will be located under the buildings of Clichy Batignolles neighborhood.
It will serve the north of Clichy-Batignolles district and the southern entrance of Clichy-la-Garenne.
Built on 7 levels, spaces of line 14 of the Porte Clichy station will be in direct connection with the spaces of line 13 station.
Main access will be at the corner of Avenue de la Porte de Clichy and the boulevard Bessières.
Two secondary accesses are planned. One on the forecourt of the future High Court of Paris, on the corner of Avenue de la Porte de Clichy and Andrew Suarez Street.
The second, located at the corner of Boulevard Berthier and the Avenue de la Porte de Clichy will ensure the transfer with the T3b tram.

Transfer with the RER C, metro line 13 (Asniere Gennevilliers branch) and tram T3b

Floor area: 8,954m²
Length: 120.5m
Width: 20.65m
Depth at the platform level: 26m

Clichy Saint-Ouen RER

The station Clichy Saint-Ouen RER will be located in the Boulevard Victor Hugo.
It will serve the new business district of Saint-Ouen and southern Docks area and the northeast of Clichy-la-Garenne (Neighborhoods of Espace Clichy and Morel-Sanzillon). All access to the station will be located on roadworks. The main entrance will be close to the RER C and Urban Boulevard de Clichy Saint-Ouen. Two other access are planned: one place Pierre Dreyfus, the second Rue Madame Sanzillon in Clichy-la-Garenne.

Transfer with the RER C

Floor area: 4,852m²
Length: 160m
Width: 18.3m
Depth at the platform level: 26m

Mairie de Saint-Ouen

Located in Saint-Ouen, Mairie de Saint-Ouen station will be built under the intersection of boulevard Jean Jaurès and Rue Albert-Dhalenne.
It will serve the center of Saint-Ouen and northeast of the Docks district. Access will be integrated on the ground floor of buildings. The main entrance will be at the northern corner of Jean-Jaurès Boulevard and Albert Dhalenne street.
Secondary access is provided further south on the boulevard Jean-Jaurès. The station on five levels, allowing transfer with the station of line 13.

Transfer with the metro line 13 (Saint-Denis branch)

Floor area: 6,841m²
Length: 120.5m
Width: 20.65m
Depth at the platform level: 21m

http://www.prolongerligne14-mairie-s...-amenagements/

[M II A II R II K]

Paris hit by air pollution spike, halves cars on roads

Read More: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0884b...ves-cars-roads

Paris will cut the number of cars on the road in half beginning Monday and is making public transit free to combat a spike in pollution that has obscured even the Eiffel Tower under a smoggy haze.

The mayor's office announced Saturday that only cars with odd-numbered plates will be permitted to drive Monday, as well as any electric or hybrid vehicles and any vehicles with more than three people. Public transit will be free, as will the electric car-sharing and bike sharing-programs.

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[Minato Ku]

I don't think that main railway station is the proper term to descrive the Saint-Denis Pleyel station on the Grand Paris Express (lines 14, 15, 16, 17).
It will be the station with the highest number of lines of Grand Paris Express project (not including the other lines) but I don't think that it will be a more important than hub like la Défense in term on traffic for Grand Paris Express project lines.

Kengo Kuma unveils the main railway station of the Grand Paris Express

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has unveiled plans for the ‘Saint-Denis Pleyel railway station’ in Paris – the main hub of the city’s new rapid transit line. the competition-winning scheme forms the first part of the region’s redevelopment, enabling the city to significantly increase its metropolitan scale. the project involves using the station to link the two sides of the city in order to increase connectivity within the district.
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http://www.designboom.com/architectu...ce-03-23-2015/

[mrnyc]

wow nice and airy plans for st. denis. awesome. more parisian determination not to repeat the les halles rat maze mistake - ya gotta love it.

[Minato Ku]

Speaking of Châtelet - Les Halles, they opened a new entry/exit to the shopping mall (Porte Berger), two weeks ago.
Note that while it is open, the work is not completed. Don't worry about the look.




Note that the work is not completed.

[Minato Ku]

I must say that I am rather against this move.
I think that this is not sustainable in the long term.

Broadening the city through a universal fare card
Yonah Freemark March 30th, 2015

» The Paris region plans a single monthly fare for transit access, eliminating zones for pass holders, with the dual goals of encouraging more transit use and social integration.

What if it were possible to travel as much as you’d like by train or bus within Connecticut, from Stamford to New Haven, Hartford, New London, Waterbury, Danbury, Putnam, and hundreds of other towns, and then to travel within them, all on one transit fare card at the monthly price of just $76?

That’s what, in essence, will occur beginning in September in Île-de-France, the region that surrounds and includes Paris and which is practically the physical size of Connecticut—albeit far more populous and benefiting from a far more extensive transit system.

The plan is to eliminate the current five-zone transit fare system for people holding weekly or monthly passes and replace them with a universal, unlimited fare. The universal card will apply to virtually all transit services within Île-de-France, which is the most populous region in France, with 12 million inhabitants spread over 4,638 square miles (for comparison, the city of Paris proper has 2.3 million residents in 41 square miles, and New York City, which has a universal fare card for Subways and buses, is 305 square miles). The map below compares the shape and scale of Île-de-France with the New York region. Imagine a single monthly fare card for all transit service in that area.


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http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2...card/#comments

[Minato Ku]

Eastern extension to Rosny-Bois-Perrier (and Noisy-Champs later).

Work will soon begin.







Note, this comes from a free municipal paper.

[ed24]

Originally Posted by Minato Ku

I must say that I am rather against this move.
I think that this is not sustainable in the long term.

Do you mean financially? I am guessing they will use this to increase the base fares, so therefore they should be able to recoup a lot of the money they potentially would lose.

[Minato Ku]

A shortfall of €500 million by year, even with new tax planned, it still miss over €300 million.

[Minato Ku]

Northern extension to Mairie d'Aubervilliers



The full tunnel was built with the first step of this extension (Front Poluraire in december 2012).
The current work are "only" about the construction of the stations but it still heavy work.
Opening planned for 2019

Aimé Césaire

Mairie d'Aubervilliers.


This is how the station are built, you can note that the tunnel is already there.


Some pictures at Mairie d'Aubervilliers

[ardecila]

Fascinating. Not too different from the methods used in New York or Washington, but somehow much less expensive.

[mousquet]

^ Never mind if it's off-topic here; can you please quickly explain to us again, just in a few words in a single post if possible, why mass transit development would be so much more expensive in the US? Sorry for asking again, it might bother you but I forget and couldn't understand yet. Just curious and still astonished about that.

[BrownTown]

Originally Posted by mousquet

^ Never mind if it's off-topic here; can you please quickly explain to us again, just in a few words in a single post if possible, why mass transit development would be so much more expensive in the US? Sorry for asking again, it might bother you but I forget and couldn't understand yet. Just curious and still astonished about that.

What does union labor make in Paris? I'm pretty sure the union members making $100/hr contribute a lot to the price of transit in NYC.

[ed24]

Interesting, perhaps a shame they didn't also build the planned tunnel to the RER B station at La Courneuve – Aubervilliers while they were going, as that would be a nice link to have sooner rather than later.

[Minato Ku]

Soil test pit at Arcueil-Cachan for the new line 15
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