Why Paris is Doubling the Size of its Metro?
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Welcome to our video where we dive into the transformative Grand Paris Express Project, a groundbreaking initiative reshaping public transportation in Paris and its surrounding areas. This project marks a significant milestone in urban development, offering a closer look at how Paris is evolving to meet the needs of its residents in the 21st century.
In this video, we explore the Grand Paris Express Project in detail, uncovering its key features and impacts:
- Expanding Paris Metro Network: Discover how the Grand Paris Express is adding four new automated metro lines (Lines 15, 16, 17, and 18) and extending the existing Line 11 and Line 14. This expansion is massive, adding around 200 kilometers of new tracks, which is a game-changer for commuters in and around Paris.
- Enhancing Connectivity: We delve into how this project aims to bridge the gap between the bustling city center and the quieter suburbs. The new lines promise to significantly reduce travel times, making the daily commute faster and more efficient for thousands of Parisians.
- Commitment to Sustainability: Learn about the project’s dedication to sustainable and eco-friendly transport solutions. The new metro lines are not only about modernizing the transport system but also about reducing the city's carbon footprint.
- A Vision for the Future: Finally, we reflect on what this project means for the future of urban transportation and city living. The Grand Paris Express is setting a new standard for how cities can evolve to meet the demands of growing populations and environmental challenges.
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Great video but I belive you missunderstood the goal of the project. Paris already has a great network for suburban to get into Paris (RER and Transilien).
GPE is about improving suburb to suburb transit (which is why none of the lines are going into Paris)
Except for line 14 extension, which are built to connect the rest of the grand paris express and Paris
Whats even more impressive is the relative cost and speed of this vs Anglophone countries
Well actually...the cost isn't that much competitive after all. Sure, at the beginning, when the project was estimated at 19 billion euro, it was wildly impressive. But as of today, with a 38,5 billion price tag (according to the latest estimates), it's cost is actually very close to the per kilometer cost of the Elizabeth line in London. So after all, the "Anglosphere" isn't THAT much inefficient. At least in these regards. It's impressive that Paris is building 200 km of metro but let's also not forget that the Elizabeth line was also quite an impressive project, at 117 km length. Both cities are setting the bar quite high up
@@Adrenaline_chaser you need to consider that the actually newly built parts of the Elizabeth line are really just the 41 km of tunnels in central London, the rest being existing infrastructure (which did get some improvement to be fair)
@@cyri96 Yeah, Crossrail and the GPE are two wildly different beasts.
meanwhile NYC will build 3 stations with partially built tunnels and the cost will be almost7 billion and it will be finished by 2034 (not gonna happen). 😢
When the French build, they can really build
The metro of Paris is not the unique existing urban rail transit system serving Paris and its suburbs. There are also 5 RER lines (total length 602 km), 15 suburban train lines (1294 km) and 14 tramways lines (185 km).
And one fenicular.
And soon one urban cable
I am not familiar with Paris but from the map it looks like an amazing project, with circular lines and connections to the airports!
I wished there was such a level of investment in public transportation all around the world!
Pour Paris ça devient une nécessité vue la densité de population et une population de 12 millions d'habitants qui crée des gros problèmes de transport
France (along with China) is also building a similar metro system in Belgrade, Serbia. So we can expect it to be very modern and efficient (at least way more than their North American counterparts). Construction just started recently, but idk if they have made significant progress since…
Bearing in mind that we are from Belgrade, honestly, it is progressing so slowly (or regressing so fast 😅) that we don't know we will ride the Belgrade Metro in our lifetime.
@@RailwaysExplained Београд је метропола, има пола метроа.
И даље важи? 🤣🤣
Неки су се пре пар година и провозали 😅😅
Meanwhile, if we're lucky, Toronto will complete the Eglinton Crosstown some time before 2121...
the hell Toronto is doing a tram line over a subway line for this?
@xlr0gd205 Canadian Genius ofc
*Cries in NYC*
Paris and Moscow Metro and Suburban Systems keep getting bigger and bigger
Meanwhile London and New York have stayed stagnant
At least yall get decent transit, Italian cities suck and are well behind those of the other European Big 5
What about the London Overgroind?
London has not stagnated. It has two ring roads already. The circle line on the underground which has been operational since the mid 90's and the London Overground which has been operational from around 2007. Suburb to suburb transport has just been completed last year with Crossrail aka the Elizabeth Line. They're now thinking of doing another Crossrail line from north to south
@@UnclePooSniff Now compare that to the Projects of the other two Cities mentioned
At least they're doing more than New York😂
@@UnclePooSniff And the extension to the Bakerloo line? Paris is delivering all of this before London can extend one line by four stations.
This should be a template for many cities throughout the world!
maybe. But it's so slow even in Paris, it's disappointing, over-budgets, delays, so many wrong choices (example of creating the line 17 for the north airports, instead of really improving the already existent RER in that corridor)
@@apacheglider Slow?
6 years from construction starting to opening is quite correct.
The ground in Paris is quite a nightmare to dig through, it often requires the use of ground hard freezing, slurry TBM's, etc.
M17 is great, it will be offer another way to reach the main airport that will improve the journeys of airport workers or visitors and will be part of a larger connection (notably with the recently proposed M19).
Currently RER B is cracking at the seams due to overcrowding, and the lack of a dedicated tunnel for both B and D limits the capacity. Also, direct trains to CDG reduce the capacity for other users.
RER B is expected to further grow in ridership and it wouldn't be compatible with the increase in PT modal share to and from the airport.
By its very existence, M17 will improve service for RER B users, as it will relieve the load.
CDG Express too by the way.
Plus, the current state of M17's route isn't even the complete one as it will probably be extended Westward from Saint-Denis Pleyel.
And finally, even if CDG T4 appears to be canceled, it is almost guaranteed that the project will come back in the near future.
It was canceled in 2020, when some thought that aviation would slow down and take decades to recover.
Instead, it is booming, with Airbus having a number of orders never seen before and growth forecasts for air travel that far exceed the ones pre-2020...
CDG will end up with 3 ways to access Paris, each with different levels of service and routes :
M17, RER B and CDG Express.
Just like LHR has the Piccadilly line, the Elizabeth's line and the Heathrow Express.
Currently, most CDG passengers do *not* reach the airport via the RER B and transit authorities want to massively improve that.
For this to happen, RER B cannot remain the only rail based access mode from the city.
Anyway, it wouldn't be able to cope with the level of public transit modal share that they intend to reach.
Not building M17 would have lead to tons of critics about even more saturation of RER B, as CDG would have required tripling or quadrupling the capacity.
Really appreciate the Line 14 extension to Orly Airport, the RER and tram won't be alone anymore. Another major global city that will finally have a direct metro airport connection, unlike the New York/New Jersey metro area, which insist on AirTrain transfers at JFK and Newark. LaGuardia is very close to Manhattan and the hotels around Queens Plaza, yet officials insist the Astoria Line can't be extended a couple of stops.
Connecting the airports is a great idea fro all visitors. will definitely help the traffic and the reputation of the city.
and teh first outer ring is definitely a great idea to help the suburb to suburb transit.
Actually for the visitors they are building the CDG Express to Gare de L'Est and they will have to pay 25 euros.
The connections with the metro that's much more for the locals.
It seems to be a very good video
I live in Paris, i wait very much for this new train network
Could you do a series on the efforts to re-open the beaching lines in the UK, as there are active moves to rebuild and restore them? This would be an exciting thing to explore.
You missed the point ! The project will provide connections of the suburbs AROUND Paris and take away the need to go into the overcrowded city to change lines and go out again.
That’s the aim of the project…
No, that's also the extension of existing lines, new tramway lines and remodeling real estate alongside those lines. Plus retrofitting the entire network, 1000+ unique stations.
Quel projet vraiment impressionnant et bien pensé. Quand je lis les commentaires que même des gens habitant NYC ou Londres sont envieux ça pose le niveau de ce projet. Bravo.
C'était une nécessité, le prochain problème de paris à régler c'est le logement, il faudra repenser la périphérie proche avec beaucoup de démolition et reconstruction + le problème sécuritaire
le cout pour la résolution du probleme du logement a Paris me fait déjà très peur perso @@mfc4987
Heu, c'est qu'ils mettent la barre très basse.
@@mfc4987C'est la même dynamique pour le logement aussi depuis 10 ans. Le Grand Paris ce n'est pas que les transports en commun mais aussi l'immobilier. Effectivement des quartiers entiers ont été détruits et reconstruits à neuf.
Paris intra muros et ses arrondissements centraux sont les zones les plus insécututaires en Ile de France, avec la Seine Saint Denis en général et les chiffres sont bas. Les banlieues en général ont moins de crimes violent que Paris intra muros.
Thanks for the video. Always wanted to know more about thr Grand Paris Express but never got round to it. This summed it up well. Keep it up👍
Romantic skyline.
Shows La Défense 😂
Is anyone in the New South Wales Government watching this!
It would be so easy to solve Sydney’s traffic issues with just a little bit of political will.
It costs more than just a little bit of political will. Not all countries are lucky enough to have banknotes that grow on trees.
@@thierrydesu all infrastructure costs, its just what you choose to spend on
To be fair if you want engineering done right you call the French. Sorry to hear about the Collins subs.
Can't wait for it to be achieved. This is going to alleviate the insane road traffic and give work opportunities to millions of people. Will also reduce transportation time to many people as well.
I'm glad I can find some feel good videos like this, it somehow evens out my view on the slowness of progress.
Excellent. Thanks for sharing.
The city I live in is proposing something far less ambitions, but it will definitely cost more, take longer to build and will most likely be a massive white elephant.
I hope you can cover Belgrade's future metro, build by France and China ! Also a great expansion of the tram network in the work !
Congrats for your nice French words pronunciation, particularly of the R letter, which is quite tricky for foreigners 😉
Bonne vidéo qui résume bien le projet. Son premier but est d'éviter que les gens ne soient plus obligés de rentrer dans Paris pour aller d'un banlieue à une autre. Sur TH-cam il y a beaucoup de vidéo montrant l'avancée des travaux dont une station qui sera à 52m en sous-sol ou celle de la Défense aussi appelée la station "cathédrale".
That Thumbnail 😂
All these "renewable energy-powered city" are bogus. The electric grid is country-wide and not city-wide. At least Paris is already low carbon as long as its electricity is concerned as it's mostly powered by NPPs.
Because you know anything about the pollution in Paris?
@@puccaland I don't think we're talking about the same thing at all.
@@StarryNightGazing I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Renewable energy powered cities are being built that way to get cleaner cities and fight climate change. Paris will be low carbon the day there will be enough solutions to decrease the use of cars and public transportation working on fossil fuels. Hence why they are extending the network and electrifying anything or will move to hydrogen powered buses in due times.
@@StarryNightGazing Renewable energy powered cities are being built that way to get cleaner cities and fight climate change. Paris will be low carbon the day there will be enough solutions to decrease the use of cars and public transportation working on fossil fuels. Hence why they are extending the network and electrifying anything or will move to hydrogen powered buses in due times.
You're not getting what I'm saying. The power grid is national, so there isn't such a thing as a "renewable powered city". However France's grid is thankfully very grid already. Yes car and heating pollution must drastically go down but "renewable powered city" is a stupid slogan that means nothing. Hydrogen is pretty stupid as a fuel as it's mostly produced by methane with huge carbon emissions.
We must add the CDG Express, a new direct train line between the Gare de l'Est and Charles De Gaulle airport. Project not included in the Grand Paris express, opening planned for 2027.
Yes for that's a private project and the passengers will have to pay 25 euros for it. The Grand Paris Project is a public project payed with taxpayer money and everything will be included in the local public transportation passes.
Line 16 will be around 25 km long, not 46 😉
Meanwhile in Montreal it'll need 5 years to build 6km of metro for 6 billion CAD...
They needed to build this project because people in Paris were complaining that traveling between _arrondissements_ required traveling through central Paris, which meant a lot of overcrowding in the center of the city. Paris Grand Express bypasses the need to go into central Paris, and that makes inter-city travel a lot more convenient and less crowded.
No, the arrondissements are inside central Paris. The 1st arrondissement is where the Louvre is located, the 8th is the Champs Élysées, etc. People complained that you could not go from suburb to suburb without passing through Paris.
No, the arrondissements are inside central Paris. The 1st arrondissement is where the Louvre is located, the 8th is the Champs Élysées, etc. People complained that you could not go from suburb to suburb without passing through Paris.
The arondissement are districts of central Paris as the poster above me said, but you are right about the nature of the problem that is supposed to besolved, particulalry with Line 15. The idea is to provide more direct connection between close suburbs without having to go into Paris proper to chnage between lines. This will allow to unbloat a little a few of the metro and even RER lines as well.
Hello, Are you live in Balkans
Yeah. In Serbia 😀
@@RailwaysExplained :)
Is you is or is you are Balkans?
i have to look english people to explain my city kek
Il est serbe le youtuber
Anne Hildalgo and the paris municipality as whole are absolutely goated with how ambitiously they've embraced sustainability and livability in their plans for the city and its metro area. You're doing a great job covering these developments, love it!
This has nothing to do with Anne Hidalgo. This is a regional project that was started by Sarkozy, well before Hidalgo was mayor of Paris. Hidalgo is very unpopular because she put the city into debt with a disastrous management. Foreigners are strongly mistaken about her, she's not the genius that is described by some youtubers, literally the opposite.
@@Bidam682 Thats because they dont know how parisian local politics operate, they think that since it's a parisian project the mayor of paris must be behind it.
I dont really blame them for that, the GPe is a complex affair and most youtubers only focus on the building aspect and not the planning.
GPE is basically a political derivative of a project carried out by the RATP since 1970, the Metrophérique. The project remained behind due to low funding in public transport.
At the beginning of 2000 the State and politicians took over the project and merged it with Orbival, a departmental political variant of the 90s, to create the GPE, in about 20 years (1996-2016)
@@Bidam682she may be disliked in the Ile de France suburbs but she did just win re-election so I think it’s inaccurate to call her unpopular at least within the city of Paris
@@evanmoorman3828 that s simple , the one that hate on her are the one from the cities around Paris that commute often by car . People from the place she's supposed to rule love her because she improved some stuff like , streets that have school around with no car access. She may have indepted the city but she's doing her job at least.
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Bon je préviens j'ai fais un pavée le truc vous avez jamais vue ça sur youtube mais vue que je vais a paris souvent et que j'habite en France sans modestie je pense que je suis bien placée pour dire mon avi dite le moi en réponse si vous n'êtes pas d'accord Le problème a paris enfin a chaque fois que j'y suis aller le métro est hyper encombré le transilien n'est pas assez étendu dans le sens où c'est gare du nord gare de Lyon gare Montparnasse les autres grandes gare qu'il y a est le tramway subi les bouchon permanent de paris donc on ne peut pas ce passer du métro est en plus en France notre cher gouvernement de ***** veut nous enlever les voiture en tous cas dans les "grande ville type paris évidemment Lyon Marseille Lille valence Grenoble est toute la clique donc il faut développer le système de transport en commun mais la SNCF est en train de subir la concurrence forcé par l'Europe don maintenant on a la DB allemande les italien est les espagnol sur nos ligne de train donc vue que la SNCF est endetté de plusieurs milliards on n'arrive pas a amélioré notre système bref le problème étant que nous avons pas assez d'argent nous n'avons pas le temps avec les jeux olympiques est nous subissons la concurrence ce qui fait chuter nos entreprises française
Bah non vous n'êtes pas bien placé puisque de toute évidence vous êtes un touriste qui ne sait pas trop bien se déplacer dans Paris.
On peut très bien se passer du métro dans Paris, La grande majorité des usagers s'en passent au quotidien.
Les Parisiens ne veulent pas plus de voitures et même avant ces mesures seulement 10% des Parisiens utilisent la voiture au quotidien car ils n'en n'ont pas besoin.
Please invest a few dollars to let someone else dub the video.
I’m just scared for Paris this year given the footfall for the Olympics. Good luck to everyone!
Being one of the most visited cities in the World in the most visited country, I believe Paris can handle it. I'm not an overly optimist person, but I don't like pointless pessimism.
👎👎👎👎Video auf Englisch, trotz Deutschem Titel. 👎👎👎
Line 16 be used by black muslims…
I don’t like it , I actually only like line 15
Line 17 will be used by nobody and Line 18 is megalomaniac , it’s already stupid to put R&D clusters in the middle of nowhere
Oh look one of these comments, good thing no one took you seriously
Wtf is that...
@@Lostouille
The truth
I will be using line 17 and I am not a nobody.
À racist troll went outside to try and get some sunlight.
I ❤ 🚂🚃 trains 🚄 🚅 trams 🚈🚞
take a ride, I have a folder on ''transportation''
(folder 4) I think you will love them too :)