If only! It is a full waste of money, bike lanes without basic safety (🚦), elevators for train station where the trains (recently modernized) have two big steps to get in anyway, The swimming pool unfit for the games, being enlarged (doubling the price) before realizing the room for spectators was not enough anyway... The rats, the smell, the pickpockets, the constant strikes in the metro, the unpainted and rusting Eiffel tower, rape in broad daylight (and in front of the Eiffel Tower!), drug addicts everywhere... Socialist management is at its height.
@@martint6680 Hidalgo's policies reduced carbon pollution by 40% in the last 10 years. Violent thefts have fallen by 25% and property damage by 2-5%. And drugs are a major problem everywhere right now. Use has increased 23% in the last 10 years GLOBALLY. You have no clue what the term "socialism" means. But if you're looking for someone to blame for all the shit we're seeing in the West, I suggest you look towards those who've forced neoliberal austerity and pro-business (aka anti-general public) policies. Pieces of garbage like Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron who've cut taxes on the ultra-rich, gutted public spending and eroded worker's rights are the ones who've made France worse. Obviously. Because clownservatives and neoliberals couldn't govern a public toilet, let alone a country.
let me tell you, Paris transport comity and most of the infrastructures are far from ready for. 2024, plus they did an horrendous job in managing all the things
Very happy to see the decline of American-lead car culture in Europe! European cities are meant to be walkable, bikeable and filled with rapid service transport like trolleytrams, metrotrains and even buses (if no other options can be made available). American cities are wastelands of open parking spots that bake in the hot sun and are always overfilled, expensive too.
Been to Paris recently, I can confirm that there’s a lot of cars, but equally a huge amount of paths and roads dedicated to foot and bike traffic, it would be foolish to drive into Paris to do something when the public transport system works so well event though Parisians might think otherwise
I don’t know if you noticed, but cars were the fastest way to build a network across the united states because there was nothing else and railways couldn’t transport large military firepower for wars that everyone was scared of at the time. American just hasn’t recovered from that and now with the split of the country from political warfare everyone is scared of each other.
@@andrewlewis4047railways can transport military firepower. They still do in the US… The interstate was pitted as a way to let people escape in case of a nuclear attack but really it was just a way to ensure car dependence and sell more of them and everything associated with them. And sell subsidised housing to whites in the process. This is all well documented. The irony is they do really badly in disasters with days of lead up. Fancy trying to evacuate a city in the 15 minutes a nuclear attack would take.
Frankly, the Champs-Élysées would be better as a tram-way and totally closed to through traffic by car. Keep a couple traffic lanes open for delivery, taxi/uber/buses, sanitary and emergency services etc. to access.
Absolutely, that would be ideal. However, if you take a look at La Rambla in Barcelona, there's traffic there running along the sides, but it's somewhat limited and the walking street runs down the middle. Because of the vegetation and the wide middle lane with all its restaurants and installations it's still a very attractive space.
un tramway sur les champs élysées ? des files électriques au milieu de la ville ? es tu devenu fou ? ça serait abominable… heureusement que tu n’es pas urbaniste !
Mais bien sûr t'es pas pas menteuse toi, on va se faire chier à prendre le tram pour aller à Louis Vuitton alors qu'on peut garer le Range juste devant
Fellow Frenchman living in Paris, and let me disappoint you: none of this will be ready for the Olympics... Both the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and the Île-de-France region President Valéry Pécresse, have announced nothing would be ready. If you have the bad idea to come here during the OG during summer 2024, you'll be extremely hearthbroken nothing has actually been done
@serbkebab2763 that's capital cities for you 🤷♂️ only like two in three conversations you hear in london are in English, but that's what makes capital cities interesting
@@serbkebab2763 You mustn't've tried hard then... Also, given France's History, it's normal that we have people from Africa here. Go be racist somewhere else pal!
yes and no , bigger part of the population is middel class working man . Not everyone is entiteld people need there cars for work and many more things not everyone lives in a bubble where they only take the biscle because they dont have to work in the harbour or something
Any plan to clean up Paris which will need to involve a cohesive effort to remove all the graffiti which greats you as you enter Paris on the Eurostar and also on the shabby RER from and to CDG. It’s just awful and what a bad impression my favourite city gives its new visitors
first of all, paris needs to clean itself, every 50 meters you walk, you can smell pee, homeless people everywhere, trash... trash everywhere.. especialy in outer part of city
You can't clean it, when it's full of third world people with third world manners... They are spending billions on all of this, while letting even more people who don't give a Fuck about anything. Drugs, aggressions on the streets, animal behavior, trash... That's what never kept in mind with all of these MODERN HITECH sketches...
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Great video with fantastic views! And quite exhaustive too. By the way, where did you find the footage of the M18's rolling stock shown at 7:55 ? I've never been able to find any real images of these trains yet. Only MR6V for M15. So I'm ecstatic seeing these for the first time! Just a little correction : the Grand Paris Express is not "extremely late" as following the events and world pandemonium of 2020, the government and Grand Paris authority (SGP) issued a new timeline, focusing on different deliveries first and better scheduling instead of rushing construction on the parts useful to the Olympics and delaying other parts. So, said parts of M16/M17 are rescheduled for delivery after the Olympics and right now the developments are on schedule. With M11 & M14's extensions set to open in spring 2024 as planned. (M11's extension is only a few months late and they decided against rushing it). RER E West is expected to open its first phase around the same time, including Porte Maillot and La Défense CNIT stations, possibly also Nanterre la Folie but that is to be confirmed. The rest of the extension to Mantes la Jolie will open later. M15's South section is set to open in Q4 2025, as it was planned in the new post-pandemic calendar. And phase 1 of M16/M17 in autumn 2026. On the other hand the new schedule brought forward other parts, like the central section of M18, now set to open in 2026, earlier than originally planned, and the rest of M16 plus the second phase of M17 in 2028. The recent announcement of a major milestone confirms this new calendar : over 100 kilometers of tunnels have been dug so far on the GPE, out of about 180km in tunnels. The SGP also announced on September 3rd 2023 that more than half of M17's path has already been built. 15km of tunnels built, out of a 26.5km route ; 11.5km to go, of which 5.5km are either running on the surface or elevated, so only 6km of tunnels remain to be built on M17. That's 15km of continuous tunnels from Saint-Denis to Gonesse, far beyond the point that was of use for the Olympics. The Verdun and Roland shafts plus the tunnels linking them and forming the branching between M16 & M17 were completed in November 2022. While in July 2023, there were only 650 meters left to dig on M18's Eastern underground section (between Orly and Palaiseau where the line transitions to elevated tracks). It should be finished digging very soon, if it hasn't already. The main delays *not* due to the pandemic mess were caused by the terrible soil in Paris underground, namely the North extension of M12 (not part of GPE) and a small part of M14 Northern extension, as they required the ground to be hard frozen with cold generation factories and extensive circuit piping. A section on M14's North extension even suffered a flood that delayed construction, due to thiese terrible soil conditions. If the calendar had not been reorganized, the M16/M17 section planned for the Olympics would have been delivered only a few months after the event, which is only a mild delay. Instead, they are now expecting a much larger section to be delivered ahead of the previous schedule for such section. The main heavy duty building works left to do are M15's Western and Eastern sections. They are expected to start building and digging soon. As of October 2023: 100km dug, 27 TBM's have finished digging, only 2 TBM's still digging and nearly 65km of double track are already laid. The second phase of massive simultaneous digging is expected to start in 2024. I couldn't be more excited and eager about all this! The whole undertaking is so interesting.
@lioneldemun6033 Which pharaonic endeavor? The Grand Paris Express? The region and its inhabitants mostly, with a small investment from the state. Why do you ask? And more importantly, would you ask about that if it was a highway project? It's a necessity to improve mobility in Paris while respecting the lower emissions goal. Especially for suburbs to suburbs journeys. The current network is saturated and a number of journeys are inefficient, requiring going through the center and then backtracking to reach the destination. It will help bring the network's capacity to the daily 20 million trips mark.
Paris is too crowded and lot of loitering around eifel tower area. And correct , it does not have enough trees. But a great place to visit. See you soon Paris
People PLEASE go to Paris for the Olympic. I am french, and from an insider pov, going there will surely not fail to give you one of the BEST views of insane failure : stabbings rising as well as violent crimes since Paris is becoming a shithole, all lead by the incompetent hand of Anne Hidalgo.
@@lm_b5080 Les pauvres, ils vont être déportés dans la France périphérique :( plus de bar à chicha juste à côté, moins de squat, moins de barres d'immeubles immondes
The lack of green space was one of the things I really didn't like about paris. Good to see they want to do something about it. Though this is a multi decade project of they want any meaningful level of re-greening. Rather than just a few spots popular with tourists
But that's what happens when you delay modernizing your sewers since the 19th century. Joined sewage and stormwater drainage, with emergency valves into the Seine, might've been good enough for the Belle Époque, but it's utterly incompetent for the information age, all but guaranteeing the poop goes straight into the river.
The charming, romantic city of the 20th century that people still associate with Paris is simply a thing of the past. I lived for five years in Paris as a young adult in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Going back again last year what struck me most is how incredibly crowded and congested it has become. And how seedy the tourist areas are, there is very little Parisian character to be found around St. Michel or the Champs Elysees or Montmarte etc. There's no turning back the clock on this, best accept that Paris is a different city now. It may well remain a premier European destination, it will have to work to remain elegant as a defining trait and not as a luxury reserved to only the most affluent. The best version of its future will be as a densely populated, bustling, high-tech megapolis . Its worst will be urban sprawl and bloat and balkanisation into neighbourhoods that become insular and evolve independently from each other and at varying pace.
Bravo! your video is accurate. I have lived in Paris for 30 years. Escaped from it ten years ago. Paris is finally struggling to be less agressive and obnoxious…. Greener, friendlier… that is the least we can expect…. When your average coffee cup is 4 to 8 euros… with ungrateful waiters who despise you even if you tip generously… Now living in Marseille… way more comfortable. Messy but human. I barely travel to Paris, but can’t skip huge amazing exhibitions and concerts and visiting friends. Would not live there anymore, even for a Million $ a year. Thanks again for the description of a possible future of the so called city of light/s
Je ne savais pas que les travaux pour les JO dans les arrondissements des riches allaient coûter plus que le gain prévu pour la réforme des retraites, de l'assurance chômage, et l'augmentation des tarifs edf combinés.... génial... faire des trous et planter des marroniers à 10 euros en pépinière, 44 milliards...
@@ramon475 What pickpockets? Not true at all. What Paris does have as a local specialty are romany gypsies who work in gangs around the Eifel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. "sir, sir, did you just drop this ring?"
Why do countries only bother with sorting problems out just for big events like the Olympics almost as if they care more what foreigners think then the people who actually live there
Yeah, lets make Paris nice for the Olympics. Instead of, you know, spending that money on things people outside the city need, yeah fuck the rest of the country. 44 billion. Wow.
O_O so, we destroyed the retirement sytem because of "a 12 Billion hole in the budget", then the unemployment insurance, same amount, the gov tells us "hey, we WILL lack 12 bn more", and we are going to spent MORE MONEY to prepare 4 DAYS of games and give to the richiest people in the country some parks ? This is awful.
Paris will never reach what it was 20 years ago because it's the people that have changed, not the city. Building expensive infrastructure is simply painting over the cracks of homelessness, littering and crime perpetrated by immigrants. People in Europe love going to Prague, Sofia and Krackov because these are cities that still have their culture and none of the problems of big cities like London and Paris. It's the people that make a beautiful city.
I mean, regardless of what people live there, pretty sure at least making it so the sewers don't flow straight into the river would help. Those sewers are so old, Prussia was still a thing when they were built! And the Eiffel Tower is so rusted, engineers are starting to worry about the structure. The infrastructure is crumbling on so many levels, and if a overhaul is not done, that means disaster.
I wish the American Government had this type of logic, we've been on a constant downward spiral and we need something good like this to fix our disastrous urban planning
What an insane waste of public money. You can’t force people to ride bicycles. ESPECIALLY when the city is so spread out because another dumb law doesn’t allow buildings above 5 stories
Anyone else pick up that 0:51 it states that the Champs Élysées attracts 250,000 tourists everyday, but yet at 1:02 it states it 1.5 million a year ....
I visit Paris from time to time and I really love the city, however the infrastructure, especially the metro system is extremely outdated, old and dirty, also getting in and out of stations is terrible for strollers, and wheelchairs, lifts are rare, often difficult to locate, don't always go all the way up, or are out of order. Generally speaking many European countries have this issue, since our cities are old and have insane amounts of legislative hurdles standing in the way of progress. When I lived in China the subway was an absolute delight, always clean, safe, very spacious stations with all types of accessibility. The ease and comfort of public transport in China is something I really miss in Europe.
You are forgetting that Chinese Subway systems are much much more recent and unlike Paris, most of them aren't going throu shitty geology too. As for cleanliness, I totally agree that We could do better in Paris but you have to keep in mind the very low wages of the cleaning staffs in China. So all in all it is unfair to compare Paris with most of chinese subways ( especially the newer ones like in Shenzhen). However, one thing we could do is... having real AC systems in the train cars.
@@olivier.m9415 'Very convenient'.... Hmm. Do you value Liberté ? Try exercising your 'freedom of speech' to criticise anything or suggest how things might be done better and then we'll talk. An Australian writer and citizen of Chinese origin was arrested in China some time ago. He has just this week been sentence to death (with stay of execution).
@@lours6993 Ive talked with many locals about China, it's recent history and also the wrong doings of Chinese gov, many Chinese agreed with me, some didn't and we had debates about these topics. Don't mistake the local population with people who have a public voice. I also never said that china was perfect, far from it, that's why I'm back but I don't want people to imagine wrong things about life there.
@@Simon-.-what would have been vital for ALL the frenchs would have been to reduce the cost of this nonsense by 12 B and let them have a retirement. Oh, but we had to be cautious with the country's money...
0:50 A street is visited by 250k tourists a DAY, 1:00 The monument at the of this street is visited by 1.5Million people a YEAR. Something is not adding up here buddy.
Firstly what you can buy domestically it’s not the same as professional, also it’s more like a tax for the cafes / restaurants there and believe me they will recoup that money in a couple of months
Not sure about the river thing.. Are they really gonna just keep pumping acid into it to kill off germs? Either address the actual source of pollution or don’t swim?
Hidalgo is my personal hero. I admire her efforts in urbanism. I wish we had an Hidalgo in Buenos Aires. We have similar issues and the city is just very similar to Paris in general. If we had someone with this mucha mbition we could truly hold the "Paris of South America" title with pride.
First, hidalgo is not in charge for the J.O., we havea dedicated minister. Second, everybody here HATE this politic, take her, you're welcome, we'll pay Third, go try live in paris before telling so stupid things.
Parisian born here (living in London tough, with most of my family remaining there) It has also proved massively unpopular to both Parisians and especially people living outside Paris but needing to commute to Paris. The Bouquinistes, the fiver front's iconic book and record sellers will be removed, the metro will see a 50% price hike, the city is nearing bankruptcy, driving in Paris has turned into a nightmare that predominantly penalizes people living in the suburbs. Residents are forced into private car parks, ending up paying up to £500 a month. Those in the suburbs see their journey times drastically increased. Anne Hidalgo, got "re elected" not on her "promises", but on a slim majority after 75% abstention/ blank ballots. She then clung onto power like a bedbug, destroying her reputation even further with her greenwashing, and taking down the socialist Party, who used to be the main opposition party for hundreds of years....
This is all fear-mongering and typical suburbanite NIMBY whining that is seen in many cities. What Paris is doing to its infrastructure is fantastic for the city. Cars should not be the primary method of transportation within a city, as they are not compatible. Cities that prioritize cars over people are ugly, dangerous, inefficient at actually moving people, and not financially solvent. Increasing transit and making streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists is the future.
In Paris' bid for the 2024 Olympics they promised to add a new rail line to CDG Airort. As soon as they won the games they dropped the project. As for the Tour Montparnasse, which was built by corrupt chicanery, the sooner they tear it down the better. The joke in Paris: Where is the best view. Top of the Tour Montparnasse. Why? Because you don't see the Tour Montparnasse. Belongs in Fresno.
What you are talking about were never an actual new line. That was just an express line made by reusing existing and somehow adapted rails. But several problems would occur : - it would have concurrence the metro (planned) + the rer (existing) to the airport - that would have mean less trains on the lines B and D : impossible because they are overcrowded - it would have been expensive to compensate the cost and the question would be if people would actually use it. It was nicknamed « the line of the wealthy »
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My everlasting memory of Paris was when visiting in the late 1960's, where Men were openly pissing in the streets . I hear not much has changed, and it is still going on!
I....dont think it will be like this. From a simple mans point of view half of what was said in this video exceeds the 2024 olympics. It's all too late
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It all well and good changing these cities but unless you make it easier for all citizens and visitors alike including those who have mobility and sight issues then it become an no go area for those not perfect as I was once called. Any disability in any age should not be downgraded we all people with feelings.
Nice that they are taking the olymics as actually improvement and not just throwing out money
If only!
It is a full waste of money, bike lanes without basic safety (🚦), elevators for train station where the trains (recently modernized) have two big steps to get in anyway, The swimming pool unfit for the games, being enlarged (doubling the price) before realizing the room for spectators was not enough anyway... The rats, the smell, the pickpockets, the constant strikes in the metro, the unpainted and rusting Eiffel tower, rape in broad daylight (and in front of the Eiffel Tower!), drug addicts everywhere...
Socialist management is at its height.
@@martint6680 Hidalgo's policies reduced carbon pollution by 40% in the last 10 years. Violent thefts have fallen by 25% and property damage by 2-5%. And drugs are a major problem everywhere right now. Use has increased 23% in the last 10 years GLOBALLY.
You have no clue what the term "socialism" means. But if you're looking for someone to blame for all the shit we're seeing in the West, I suggest you look towards those who've forced neoliberal austerity and pro-business (aka anti-general public) policies.
Pieces of garbage like Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron who've cut taxes on the ultra-rich, gutted public spending and eroded worker's rights are the ones who've made France worse. Obviously. Because clownservatives and neoliberals couldn't govern a public toilet, let alone a country.
let me tell you, Paris transport comity and most of the infrastructures are far from ready for. 2024, plus they did an horrendous job in managing all the things
Very happy to see the decline of American-lead car culture in Europe! European cities are meant to be walkable, bikeable and filled with rapid service transport like trolleytrams, metrotrains and even buses (if no other options can be made available). American cities are wastelands of open parking spots that bake in the hot sun and are always overfilled, expensive too.
American cities *WERE* walkable until the 1960s
Been to Paris recently, I can confirm that there’s a lot of cars, but equally a huge amount of paths and roads dedicated to foot and bike traffic, it would be foolish to drive into Paris to do something when the public transport system works so well event though Parisians might think otherwise
I don’t know if you noticed, but cars were the fastest way to build a network across the united states because there was nothing else and railways couldn’t transport large military firepower for wars that everyone was scared of at the time. American just hasn’t recovered from that and now with the split of the country from political warfare everyone is scared of each other.
@@andrewlewis4047railways can transport military firepower. They still do in the US…
The interstate was pitted as a way to let people escape in case of a nuclear attack but really it was just a way to ensure car dependence and sell more of them and everything associated with them. And sell subsidised housing to whites in the process. This is all well documented.
The irony is they do really badly in disasters with days of lead up. Fancy trying to evacuate a city in the 15 minutes a nuclear attack would take.
I too hope us Americans can stop importing and buying cars from Germany and Italy
Frankly, the Champs-Élysées would be better as a tram-way and totally closed to through traffic by car. Keep a couple traffic lanes open for delivery, taxi/uber/buses, sanitary and emergency services etc. to access.
Absolutely, that would be ideal. However, if you take a look at La Rambla in Barcelona, there's traffic there running along the sides, but it's somewhat limited and the walking street runs down the middle. Because of the vegetation and the wide middle lane with all its restaurants and installations it's still a very attractive space.
un tramway sur les champs élysées ? des files électriques au milieu de la ville ? es tu devenu fou ? ça serait abominable… heureusement que tu n’es pas urbaniste !
Les tramways Parisiens n'ont pas de cables.
@@Simon-.-
Mais bien sûr t'es pas pas menteuse toi, on va se faire chier à prendre le tram pour aller à Louis Vuitton alors qu'on peut garer le Range juste devant
@@Simon-.- on a des tramways sans câbles à Bordeaux, Orléans, Reims, Angers et Tours. Pourquoi pas à Paris ?
Fellow Frenchman living in Paris, and let me disappoint you: none of this will be ready for the Olympics... Both the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and the Île-de-France region President Valéry Pécresse, have announced nothing would be ready. If you have the bad idea to come here during the OG during summer 2024, you'll be extremely hearthbroken nothing has actually been done
Far too many Africans in Paris. I didn't interact with a single native Frenchman on my visit.
@@serbkebab2763 Nobody cares.
@serbkebab2763 that's capital cities for you 🤷♂️ only like two in three conversations you hear in london are in English, but that's what makes capital cities interesting
@@bootstrapbill98 You should understand, most people like them never leave their mom's basement.
@@serbkebab2763 You mustn't've tried hard then... Also, given France's History, it's normal that we have people from Africa here. Go be racist somewhere else pal!
Greener cities is super important. Glad to see that the car centric focus is somewhat in decline.
yes and no , bigger part of the population is middel class working man . Not everyone is entiteld people need there cars for work and many more things not everyone lives in a bubble where they only take the biscle because they dont have to work in the harbour or something
I lived in China for about 10 years, I have a new appreciation for greening cities.
Any plan to clean up Paris which will need to involve a cohesive effort to remove all the graffiti which greats you as you enter Paris on the Eurostar and also on the shabby RER from and to CDG. It’s just awful and what a bad impression my favourite city gives its new visitors
first of all, paris needs to clean itself, every 50 meters you walk, you can smell pee, homeless people everywhere, trash... trash everywhere.. especialy in outer part of city
agree, making the city clean and safe should be a priority
You can't clean it, when it's full of third world people with third world manners... They are spending billions on all of this, while letting even more people who don't give a Fuck about anything. Drugs, aggressions on the streets, animal behavior, trash... That's what never kept in mind with all of these MODERN HITECH sketches...
and more social housing so people arent homeless
It's the only city where we saw a "gentleman" pooping on the steps in the metro. Pooping!
It's the non French migrants.....
Excellent video, hope to see the greener Paris ASAP.
Thank you!
What a wonderful surprise coming across an amazing channel like this! I'm very impressed with the quality of the videos. I've been looking for a channel like this for ages. Congratulations for your work!
Great video with fantastic views! And quite exhaustive too.
By the way, where did you find the footage of the M18's rolling stock shown at 7:55 ? I've never been able to find any real images of these trains yet. Only MR6V for M15.
So I'm ecstatic seeing these for the first time!
Just a little correction : the Grand Paris Express is not "extremely late" as following the events and world pandemonium of 2020, the government and Grand Paris authority (SGP) issued a new timeline, focusing on different deliveries first and better scheduling instead of rushing construction on the parts useful to the Olympics and delaying other parts.
So, said parts of M16/M17 are rescheduled for delivery after the Olympics and right now the developments are on schedule.
With M11 & M14's extensions set to open in spring 2024 as planned. (M11's extension is only a few months late and they decided against rushing it).
RER E West is expected to open its first phase around the same time, including Porte Maillot and La Défense CNIT stations, possibly also Nanterre la Folie but that is to be confirmed.
The rest of the extension to Mantes la Jolie will open later.
M15's South section is set to open in Q4 2025, as it was planned in the new post-pandemic calendar. And phase 1 of M16/M17 in autumn 2026.
On the other hand the new schedule brought forward other parts, like the central section of M18, now set to open in 2026, earlier than originally planned, and the rest of M16 plus the second phase of M17 in 2028.
The recent announcement of a major milestone confirms this new calendar : over 100 kilometers of tunnels have been dug so far on the GPE, out of about 180km in tunnels.
The SGP also announced on September 3rd 2023 that more than half of M17's path has already been built.
15km of tunnels built, out of a 26.5km route ; 11.5km to go, of which 5.5km are either running on the surface or elevated, so only 6km of tunnels remain to be built on M17.
That's 15km of continuous tunnels from Saint-Denis to Gonesse, far beyond the point that was of use for the Olympics.
The Verdun and Roland shafts plus the tunnels linking them and forming the branching between M16 & M17 were completed in November 2022.
While in July 2023, there were only 650 meters left to dig on M18's Eastern underground section (between Orly and Palaiseau where the line transitions to elevated tracks). It should be finished digging very soon, if it hasn't already.
The main delays *not* due to the pandemic mess were caused by the terrible soil in Paris underground, namely the North extension of M12 (not part of GPE) and a small part of M14 Northern extension, as they required the ground to be hard frozen with cold generation factories and extensive circuit piping.
A section on M14's North extension even suffered a flood that delayed construction, due to thiese terrible soil conditions.
If the calendar had not been reorganized, the M16/M17 section planned for the Olympics would have been delivered only a few months after the event, which is only a mild delay.
Instead, they are now expecting a much larger section to be delivered ahead of the previous schedule for such section.
The main heavy duty building works left to do are M15's Western and Eastern sections. They are expected to start building and digging soon.
As of October 2023:
100km dug, 27 TBM's have finished digging, only 2 TBM's still digging and nearly 65km of double track are already laid. The second phase of massive simultaneous digging is expected to start in 2024.
I couldn't be more excited and eager about all this! The whole undertaking is so interesting.
Who is paying for this pharaonic endeavour?
@lioneldemun6033 Which pharaonic endeavor?
The Grand Paris Express? The region and its inhabitants mostly, with a small investment from the state.
Why do you ask? And more importantly, would you ask about that if it was a highway project?
It's a necessity to improve mobility in Paris while respecting the lower emissions goal. Especially for suburbs to suburbs journeys. The current network is saturated and a number of journeys are inefficient, requiring going through the center and then backtracking to reach the destination.
It will help bring the network's capacity to the daily 20 million trips mark.
@@KyrilPG ....with exploding taxes! Paid by the pressured middle classes ....
Nice to see that a city that I really want to visit is taking strides in making it a much better place to be in/experience
Most of these plans aren't gonna be ready by the Olympics if ever :/
Believe!
Paris is too crowded and lot of loitering around eifel tower area. And correct , it does not have enough trees. But a great place to visit. See you soon Paris
1 / 3 building is empty, no one can live here... but hey...
People PLEASE go to Paris for the Olympic. I am french, and from an insider pov, going there will surely not fail to give you one of the BEST views of insane failure : stabbings rising as well as violent crimes since Paris is becoming a shithole, all lead by the incompetent hand of Anne Hidalgo.
mais c'est un grand opportunité pour le pick-pocket!!
@@lm_b5080 Les pauvres, ils vont être déportés dans la France périphérique :( plus de bar à chicha juste à côté, moins de squat, moins de barres d'immeubles immondes
@@oupwo7468 déportés?? c'est ne pas la Chine! où sont les droits de l'homme??
@@lm_b5080 Oui pardon ! On va mettre en place des "réseaux d'aide et déplacement pour la transition de la précarité"
Extremely well done video
Does anyone know how far has this progressed? Olympics are in 5 months
As i heard , Paris has very dangerous places (especially around the Eiffel) and pickpocketing, racketeering etc... Is it true or nah?
I felt pretty safe but yes There is some pickpockets
its not more dangerous than any other global cities, you have bad places but but it's still sporadic and you really have to be unlucky to be bothered
I agree with Simon - it is no more dangerous than other cities its size and considerably less dangerous than most american cities.
every year, the number of overdoses is multiplied by at least three.
But don't worry, the city will be empty for the JO
Amazing concept. But one thing I’m curious about is how are they going to continue this design on the side streets.
The lack of green space was one of the things I really didn't like about paris. Good to see they want to do something about it. Though this is a multi decade project of they want any meaningful level of re-greening. Rather than just a few spots popular with tourists
I can't find any source for the claim that only 82 people live on the Champs Élysées.
If someone else can; I am interested in reading about it.
Very good summary !! It could be interesting to make another video after the olympic games or in 2026 to check the progress…
Imagine if you just kept the city clean on a daily basis so that you wouldn’t have to spend more than 40 billions of tax payer money to clean it up…
But that's what happens when you delay modernizing your sewers since the 19th century. Joined sewage and stormwater drainage, with emergency valves into the Seine, might've been good enough for the Belle Époque, but it's utterly incompetent for the information age, all but guaranteeing the poop goes straight into the river.
The charming, romantic city of the 20th century that people still associate with Paris is simply a thing of the past. I lived for five years in Paris as a young adult in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Going back again last year what struck me most is how incredibly crowded and congested it has become. And how seedy the tourist areas are, there is very little Parisian character to be found around St. Michel or the Champs Elysees or Montmarte etc. There's no turning back the clock on this, best accept that Paris is a different city now. It may well remain a premier European destination, it will have to work to remain elegant as a defining trait and not as a luxury reserved to only the most affluent. The best version of its future will be as a densely populated, bustling, high-tech megapolis . Its worst will be urban sprawl and bloat and balkanisation into neighbourhoods that become insular and evolve independently from each other and at varying pace.
In the 1980s all buildings were black-dirty, now they are white-clean.
Bravo! your video is accurate.
I have lived in Paris for 30 years. Escaped from it ten years ago. Paris is finally struggling to be less agressive and obnoxious….
Greener, friendlier… that is the least we can expect…. When your average coffee cup is 4 to 8 euros… with ungrateful waiters who despise you even if you tip generously…
Now living in Marseille… way more comfortable. Messy but human.
I barely travel to Paris, but can’t skip huge amazing exhibitions and concerts and visiting friends. Would not live there anymore, even for a Million $ a year.
Thanks again for the description of a possible future of the so called city of light/s
Je ne savais pas que les travaux pour les JO dans les arrondissements des riches allaient coûter plus que le gain prévu pour la réforme des retraites, de l'assurance chômage, et l'augmentation des tarifs edf combinés.... génial... faire des trous et planter des marroniers à 10 euros en pépinière, 44 milliards...
It’s kind of ironic that with the new railways, the “Official line of the Olympics” isn’t going to be open in time for the games
Will Paris do anything about the huge number of pickpockets?
Leftist gov will not
Every major city has this, I don't see how you can effectively stop this
@@ramon475 Not every major city only left governing cities.
@@avina84 most cities are left governing
@@ramon475 What pickpockets? Not true at all. What Paris does have as a local specialty are romany gypsies who work in gangs around the Eifel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. "sir, sir, did you just drop this ring?"
The Champs-Élysées is the most sucking street in the entire of Paris, its nearly impossible to walk through on a sunny day. Theres too many people
Why do countries only bother with sorting problems out just for big events like the Olympics almost as if they care more what foreigners think then the people who actually live there
Because capitalism. Money is what matters to those in power, not the needs of the people.
Yeah, lets make Paris nice for the Olympics. Instead of, you know, spending that money on things people outside the city need, yeah fuck the rest of the country. 44 billion. Wow.
O_O so, we destroyed the retirement sytem because of "a 12 Billion hole in the budget", then the unemployment insurance, same amount, the gov tells us "hey, we WILL lack 12 bn more", and we are going to spent MORE MONEY to prepare 4 DAYS of games and give to the richiest people in the country some parks ?
This is awful.
yep, Olympics became disgusting waste of resources. They should have never left Athens, there's tradition there.
"most beautiful avenue"? with cars passing by? come on!
It's very impressive but why the insistence on identikit terraces along the Champs Elysées?
I wonder what will they do about the illegal migrants, pick pocketers and so on
Champs-Elysées attracts 250000 tourists, while us locals avoid it as much as possible.
I hope all cities will strive for this. It may take a decade but we’d all be better served with places like this.
Paris will never reach what it was 20 years ago because it's the people that have changed, not the city. Building expensive infrastructure is simply painting over the cracks of homelessness, littering and crime perpetrated by immigrants. People in Europe love going to Prague, Sofia and Krackov because these are cities that still have their culture and none of the problems of big cities like London and Paris. It's the people that make a beautiful city.
I mean, regardless of what people live there, pretty sure at least making it so the sewers don't flow straight into the river would help. Those sewers are so old, Prussia was still a thing when they were built! And the Eiffel Tower is so rusted, engineers are starting to worry about the structure. The infrastructure is crumbling on so many levels, and if a overhaul is not done, that means disaster.
I wish the American Government had this type of logic, we've been on a constant downward spiral and we need something good like this to fix our disastrous urban planning
Thank God for the Olympics..
Only reason for the change..
nothing has been made , lol , dumb video
Has someone told the half a million homeless people sleeping rough or in cars all over the city?
That guy's haircut @ 10:35 lol
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Way to go 👍
Outstanding. I hope other big cities copy these plans.
What an insane waste of public money. You can’t force people to ride bicycles. ESPECIALLY when the city is so spread out because another dumb law doesn’t allow buildings above 5 stories
Anyone else pick up that 0:51 it states that the Champs Élysées attracts 250,000 tourists everyday, but yet at 1:02 it states it 1.5 million a year ....
The « Monument », not the Champs Élysées
2:46 that construction reminds me a little bit Sodoshopa from South Park episode :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Remove the cars from it, give it a single free tram line and let people walk/cycle all over it.
I was just there, there's no construction along the Champs-Elysees, this ain't gonna happen.
Was there last week. Still nothing
I visit Paris from time to time and I really love the city, however the infrastructure, especially the metro system is extremely outdated, old and dirty, also getting in and out of stations is terrible for strollers, and wheelchairs, lifts are rare, often difficult to locate, don't always go all the way up, or are out of order. Generally speaking many European countries have this issue, since our cities are old and have insane amounts of legislative hurdles standing in the way of progress. When I lived in China the subway was an absolute delight, always clean, safe, very spacious stations with all types of accessibility. The ease and comfort of public transport in China is something I really miss in Europe.
If you think the quality of life is better in China….
You are forgetting that Chinese Subway systems are much much more recent and unlike Paris, most of them aren't going throu shitty geology too. As for cleanliness, I totally agree that We could do better in Paris but you have to keep in mind the very low wages of the cleaning staffs in China. So all in all it is unfair to compare Paris with most of chinese subways ( especially the newer ones like in Shenzhen). However, one thing we could do is... having real AC systems in the train cars.
@@lours6993 honestly, I'm french and lived in China for 8 yrs. The quality of life for an expat (albeit white) is really good and very convenient.
@@olivier.m9415 'Very convenient'.... Hmm. Do you value Liberté ? Try exercising your 'freedom of speech' to criticise anything or suggest how things might be done better and then we'll talk. An Australian writer and citizen of Chinese origin was arrested in China some time ago. He has just this week been sentence to death (with stay of execution).
@@lours6993 Ive talked with many locals about China, it's recent history and also the wrong doings of Chinese gov, many Chinese agreed with me, some didn't and we had debates about these topics. Don't mistake the local population with people who have a public voice. I also never said that china was perfect, far from it, that's why I'm back but I don't want people to imagine wrong things about life there.
Who tf says is the most beautiful? parisians are so full of themselves similar to argentinians(porteños) when comparing to the rest of LATAM
bom trabalho amigo,Curitiba
Gonna be a massive tent city after
Each city expanding just for the Olympics lost more than they gained. unfinished or useless infrastructure, great financial debt, etc.
Doesn't mater the mayor is socialist so even without the Olypics Paris will be under huge debt.
all of this has nothing to do with the OG, its just vital for parisians and paris
Indeed.
@@Simon-.-what would have been vital for ALL the frenchs would have been to reduce the cost of this nonsense by 12 B and let them have a retirement.
Oh, but we had to be cautious with the country's money...
Hey, is Biffa narrator of the video? #CitiesSkylines
Тези работи въобще няма да станат... освен за велисипеди, защото населението няма пари да поддръжа автомобили.
0:50 A street is visited by 250k tourists a DAY,
1:00 The monument at the of this street is visited by 1.5Million people a YEAR.
Something is not adding up here buddy.
7:57 "Almost 68 station", wdym almost? Lmao
5:52 So _that's_ what E means in e-coli. Bless you.
4 lines will be too late and there will be major issue with transportation
Let’s all give a thumbs up if we think this video deserves more views!
I really really feel sorry for anyone that has to use the Seine during the Olympics. not a good idea.
$400.000 for the awning? You can get those at Bunnings for a few hundred dollars.
Firstly what you can buy domestically it’s not the same as professional, also it’s more like a tax for the cafes / restaurants there and believe me they will recoup that money in a couple of months
Not sure about the river thing.. Are they really gonna just keep pumping acid into it to kill off germs? Either address the actual source of pollution or don’t swim?
It will be hard to do without removing all these engineers and doctors
Or British tourists who litter and piss everywhere.
Olympics are in 5 months now and none of these programs will be done by this time, some of them haven't even started or just got canceled smh...
yeah i was thinking "Wait the olympics are in a couple of months."
lovely video
Thx!
sounds like an old Roman ‘entertain the people’ distraction, during protests
Let them eat cake
Hidalgo is my personal hero. I admire her efforts in urbanism. I wish we had an Hidalgo in Buenos Aires. We have similar issues and the city is just very similar to Paris in general. If we had someone with this mucha mbition we could truly hold the "Paris of South America" title with pride.
First, hidalgo is not in charge for the J.O., we havea dedicated minister.
Second, everybody here HATE this politic, take her, you're welcome, we'll pay
Third, go try live in paris before telling so stupid things.
Buenos Aires is full of slums and poverty. Never compare it with Paris.
Parisian born here (living in London tough, with most of my family remaining there) It has also proved massively unpopular to both Parisians and especially people living outside Paris but needing to commute to Paris.
The Bouquinistes, the fiver front's iconic book and record sellers will be removed, the metro will see a 50% price hike, the city is nearing bankruptcy, driving in Paris has turned into a nightmare that predominantly penalizes people living in the suburbs. Residents are forced into private car parks, ending up paying up to £500 a month. Those in the suburbs see their journey times drastically increased.
Anne Hidalgo, got "re elected" not on her "promises", but on a slim majority after 75% abstention/ blank ballots. She then clung onto power like a bedbug, destroying her reputation even further with her greenwashing, and taking down the socialist Party, who used to be the main opposition party for hundreds of years....
This is all fear-mongering and typical suburbanite NIMBY whining that is seen in many cities. What Paris is doing to its infrastructure is fantastic for the city. Cars should not be the primary method of transportation within a city, as they are not compatible. Cities that prioritize cars over people are ugly, dangerous, inefficient at actually moving people, and not financially solvent. Increasing transit and making streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists is the future.
The sooner we can get rid of Hidalgo, the better it will be for Paris. What a train wreck!
Very well documented and explained video !
Thanks!
Paris is one of the dirtiest European capitals I've been too: urine smell in the metro, tons of rubbish on the streets, really deplorable experience.
Will they kick out migrants as well?
In Paris' bid for the 2024 Olympics they promised to add a new rail line to CDG Airort. As soon as they won the games they dropped the project. As for the Tour Montparnasse, which was built by corrupt chicanery, the sooner they tear it down the better. The joke in Paris: Where is the best view. Top of the Tour Montparnasse. Why? Because you don't see the Tour Montparnasse. Belongs in Fresno.
What you are talking about were never an actual new line. That was just an express line made by reusing existing and somehow adapted rails.
But several problems would occur :
- it would have concurrence the metro (planned) + the rer (existing) to the airport
- that would have mean less trains on the lines B and D : impossible because they are overcrowded
- it would have been expensive to compensate the cost and the question would be if people would actually use it. It was nicknamed « the line of the wealthy »
And the tour Montparnasse, well I think most of people like it , and the ones who don’t approve the new project because it will make it nice looking
Surprising is was it really required to fund if it was made strict
The gigantic population of non French migrants is what's keeping the city so dirty.
Triangle skyscraper is ugly af in its out of place look
They expect restaurants to pay 500 grand for a temporal terrace? Good luck with that
Insanely ambitious... Is this really viable?
Bahahaha I would not want to be a swimmer in this coming Olympics
Hopefully the bedbug problem is sorted also 👍
Paris it's a magnificent city for it's culture mainly for the history., all sports related are looking forward or have worked very hard for this upcoming event, The Olympics.
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only 82 ppl live on champs Elysées because most buildings are luxury shops and embassies...
i think first they should do sth against the city smelling like pee and shit
I wonder where that money went thought lol . Cos I did not see any difference
Ah forbidding high rise for ... reasons; very smart.
My everlasting memory of Paris was when visiting in the late 1960's, where Men were openly pissing in the streets . I hear not much has changed, and it is still going on!
Stepping in dog poop is a time honored French tradition.
I can tell them one real easy way to improve the biggest central street in Paris.
Ban cars.
9:40 “Out of touch with the surroundings” = French NIMBYs
It looks beautiful but the streets are very dirty and too much shit graffiti.
2:30 500 trees on a boulevard of that size is nothing. You'll barely notice the difference.
Ive been there I cant imagine it to be clean tho
It’s shocking Paris doesn’t have escalators or elevators in many subway stations.
they are elevators in most of subway stations… and a bit of sport wont hurt you
mike heard that.....ignorant on the web
I....dont think it will be like this. From a simple mans point of view half of what was said in this video exceeds the 2024 olympics. It's all too late
Am i to believe that this narrotor is from gomez ????
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they did nothing of this
It all well and good changing these cities but unless you make it easier for all citizens and visitors alike including those who have mobility and sight issues then it become an no go area for those not perfect as I was once called. Any disability in any age should not be downgraded we all people with feelings.
It took me way too long to make the connection between Paris' massive renovation and urban redesign with the 2024 Olympics.
44B on a vanity project?? 😂 In this economy??Does France think they're Saudi Arabia?
Loved the part about green parks!