Checking out the BRAND NEW RER E Extension!
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The RER is one of the greatest transit success stories of all time, and its latest addition - the RER E Extension finally completes the city's 5th cross-city route. Let's take a closer look and see how it'll impact the city!
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Yes, we are aware of the timing of the Line 14 extensions opening yesterday!
If you want us to cover it, give this comment a "like" and reach out if you are able to contribute footage!
what even is that emoji? how did you do it
I guess I can help, I went in to visit it the first day
Yep, now WE can go much easier to Orly airport without congestion 😅
@@BrickPower That's great for me, because I have a flight out of Orly next week!
Hey! I am Canadian based in Paris. I LOVE your channel and would be happy to contribute however I can! I take line 14 almost every day to go to work. 😊
Not only was this project several times cheaper than simpler projects on the other side of the pond but it was also an incredible technical challenge, dealing with Paris's poor subsoil-which is literally sand in some places, filled with groundwater and old quarries- as well as La Defense station, which was built right under a shopping mall without ever closing it!
Nanterre is also set to become a major hub, with the under construction line 15 metro station being future-proof for the extension of lines 16, 17, 18, and the future line 19 that are planned for the 2030s.
✨The magic of master plans ✨
Châtelet-Les Halles is also built underneath an underground shopping centre.
@@katrinabrycebut the station was built before the shopping center
@@katrinabryceThey actually digged a giant hole in the whole neighborhood in the 70's to build the Les Halles complex, the RER and mall are actually the same project and building. Search for "trou des halles paris"
virgin london: it's so hard 😭 to build tube lines in south london because of the soft clay 😢
Chad Paris: We're working on 10 different lines simultaneously at a fraction of the cost.
Los Angeles has been building a brand new metro network from scratch since 1990. It opened the Regional Connector last year which is similar to this French project. It will continue to expand for the foreseeable future including a connection to the LAX airport in 2025 and an extension of one subway line to the west. Several more lines will open in 10 years. Paris' metro is over 100 years old. Give LA 60 more years and it will be world class as well.
BTW, the cost for the Regional Connector is comparable to the French project and has 3 underground stations.
yesteday we opened the line 14 and 11 extention , a busy year
Olympic year!
The elevated segment on L11 is very interesting to me!
@@MrBaymeric These extensions as well as many others were planned long before the Olympic Games
@@RMTransit When you look at the tunnel towards the Rosny side from la Dhuys' platforms, you see the track going outside but instead of going out on an up ramp, they keep going DOWNwards ! Same for the viaduct, it keeps going downwards from the beginning to the end while stopping plane for the station Coteaux Beauclair only. And BTW, from La Dhuys main entrance, you can spot Coteaux Beauclair station down below, it's a very uncommon feature for a very hilly suburbian neighbourhood.
A lot of transit being built ahead of the Olympics
I live in Paris next to the RER E station of Rosa Parks, the new extensions simplifies my daily life, not only is it fast and convenient but it reduces congestion on the other RER lines that were suffering for decades, only drawback for the time being is the frequency mainly due to renovation and working on existing infrastructure for the olympics
Not enough trains delivered for the moment but it will improve by September
I am jealous, you are in for many good RER rides!
We're building the lines' infrastructure so fast that all the rolling stock isn't even delivered yet, and lines E, 11 and 14 will have more trains delivered progressively until the end of 2024. At the moment, the frequency is slightly reduced on those lines and will be increased with the upcoming train deliveries...
Haha well there have been some rolling stock delays as well!
I can only wish other cities had that same problem.
rich problems
Yep, Paris is trying to make sure it’s completed before Olympics start
@@thomasgrabkowski8283 it was planned 15 years ago long before the idea of the Olympics
So frustrating how North American cities refuse to build transit like Paris is. But we're always willing to build even more highways...
Even highway projects in North America costs more than other countries... but we never complain about the cost of those and keep marching forward because it's an "investment". Meanwhile the Northeast Corridor rots, costing the US billions if not trillions.
I think they can build good transit, it's just that they don't want to, nobody in the cities wants them to, and they struggle to create good ones bc they love every line going to 1 stop in downtown
Bro, as a french, I can tell you Paris transit is GAR-BAGE
You should look for japanese, korean or chinese transit ^^
@@KenishiroMashibastill better than new york
@@furorentonori5838 even Teheran’s transit is better than new york 😂😂😂
And the video released the day of yet ANOTHER Paris transit's extension ! (métro line 14)
And the line 11 a few weeks ago
Paris is on a roll!
The supposedly "wood" flooring on the platforms is magnificent. I wonder how this will age tho.
There are floorings of the same kind in Hausmann Saint Lazare and Magenta, both opened a quarter century ago. Not on the platforms but on high foot traffic corridors, mezzanines and validation barriers.
They've aged extremely well. You wouldn't think they'd be older than a couple years.
In reality it's made of bamboo.
I assume they chose this flooring in this station as well to give the line a visual identity, it is very pleasant to walk on as compared to the usual concrete floor !
@@KyrilPG Wood can be extremely hardy!
Wooden floors if of good quality and maintained correctly age extremely well. They can even become nicer with time with patina.
Impressive (again) stuff from Paris. I was about to say "why aren't they extending further West? They've already built the tunnel". And then you answered. They are. Of course they are, because Paris.
There will be more. because the Greater Paris project will open several impressive lines
They really just seem to keep building, its great to see
It still is trippy to me to see the z50000 trains in the RER E tunnels. I'm so used to those being the above-ground Transilien rolling stock seeing them underground makes them look like they got lost. I'm still glad because I love those trains and the huge windows they have.
Z50000 on RER E is temporary, when sufficient RER NG stock is available, those Z50000 will go on other lines like L, H, K.
@@quoniam426 les NAT de L et J plus petite donc peu de chance d'en voir sur H et K
@@quoniam426 planed for U line ,a part of them.
I agree, very odd!
@@Lodai974 They can only fit for line H, K and P, but they belong to the P line, that's where they are supposed to go
The last few months in Paris have been exceptional for transit, in a stark contrast to the current national political situation.
The good news is that there is a healthy pipeline of ongoing construction in the country, to be open within 5 years, including:
- 100 km of new subway in Paris (line 15 south, 16 and 18);
- 30 km of new subway in Toulouse (line C and line B extension);
- A couple of tram lines in Lyon.
Don't forget that the financial framework of these extensions are being implemented outside of Paris. The GPE was the Grand Paris Express, and has been renamed SGP, Société des Grands Projets (great projects society), in order to set up major RER-like projects on the regional lines crossing other cities (called SERM). Currently, every regions and cities in the country are setting up master plans with the hope to get access to these investments.
Politics are temporary, transit is forever!*
*mostly
Even as a longtime viewer, I'm consistently amazed that "every 15 minutes" is considered low frequency in most of the world.
... and this video was released one day after the opening of the 14 km extension of Metro 14, that now connects Orly airport to the French capital. Paris do "build a lot of transit"!
France is doing good work with new transit projects, bike infrastructure, more nuclear plants, and beautifying its neighborhoods
Paris is so far ahead of other cities, even London’s tube network… They have the RER E extension, then the line 11 serving towards the east, and now the most recent extension is line 14 with both north and south extensions on the line
They are on a different level when it comes to metro expansions
Paris has an excellent transportation network Parisians don’t realise how lucky they are and the ticket is cheap too
Paris is like the Tokyo of Europe
@@frafraplanner9277 if only people stopped pissing on the metro... srsly guys cmon how is it every time I visit Paris so many stations smell like piss
@@petitkruger2175 Juste une question...je suis parti plusieurs fois a paris et je vis en banlieue, je sais pas pourquoi mais jai JAMAIS senti qu'une station a l'odorat de pisse je sais pas pourquoi mais je trouve ca tres cliché sans blague
It would be perfect if they fixed the accessibility and cleanliness issues!
Agreed, accessibility really needs to be improved. And thanks Reese for sorting his Paris region is good at transport. I lived there for a big part of my life and took things for granted and your videos make me hugely appreciative for my birth country.
Yesterday line 14 was extended to Orly Airport, also the 11 one was extended far in the east, all in less than a month…
very proud to see this vid actually, I recently send my profile to the sncf to work on as a train driver on this line and recruitment process seems to be looking good to me !
I really love these new stations, and the RER E is finally becoming a real interconnection line, a real RER line. That's great
Always love the Paris public transit system. I think it is one of the best in the world.
RER E wasn't much talked about because people are focused on the real big game-changer that's coming, the Grand Paris Express. They tend to consider RER E like a part of this GPX project, just like the recent extensions of metro lines 11 and 14
This project seems more similar to what the construction of the Regional Connector did for the LA Metro. It greatly simplified crossing the greater LA metro region resulting in reduced travel times and transfers. Frequencies on both the A and E lines have improved as well. In fact, just recently the A line surpassed the B line in ridership for the first time ever. Oh, and the building cost was similar to this French project and there were 3 underground stations.
However the Paris ground is already saturated - full of existing metro, train and road tunnels, as well as sewers and quarries -. The surface is also full of buildings you cannot move to build the tunnels. To build the RER E station at La Défense they had to destroy foundations of the CNIT and create new foundations for it integrated into the new station - without closing the building above a single day.
Unlike the empty Los Angeles area that needed as much money to build a far more simple project
@@paname514_bisAlso this is heavy rail, not light rail, which is a lot more expensive
The regional connector is similar to the RER, but in terms of size it's absolutely not even close to the RER
Excellent work ! I have rarely seen an English-speaking video of such clarity about French transportation !
Big fan of the vibrant seating on the new trains.
La Defense Station DEFINITELY looks like a spiritual cousin of the Sir Norman Foster designed Canary Wharf Jubilee station with those thick columns and over-height platform levels... Fitting since those are the two largest modern secondary CBD's on the continent... LOVE IT!
You're going to have work RM!!😁
The extensions of 11 and 14 have been open since June 13 and 24...
Tested and approved by myself.
2:40 Actually, these columns do not support the station, but the CNIT building above. The CNIT has been the very 1st Défense building, inaugurated by De Gaulle in 1958, with a huge curved triangular concrete roof (you can see a part of it around 4:50). It was quite an undertaking to first cast these giant pillars, then dig out what is now an impressive underground station!
Anyway, nice video. Keep up the good work and yes, plenty of new transit stuff going on in Paris!
Excited to take the RER this summer when I'm passing through Paris... though bracing for it to be busy because I completely forgot the Olympics were this summer. 😅
If it is anything like London 2012, and it looks like it will be, then Paris will be a lot quieter this summer than usual.
The capacity of an olympic stadium is nothing compared to the number of people who usually visit Paris, and comparable to a 6 Nations rugmy match or the French Open at Rolland Garros. All the other people who visit to go to the Louvre, Champs Elysees, etc, are going elsewhere this year.
@@katrinabryce I can absolutely confirm that. And now with working from home being a total thing I'm sure many office workers will avoid coming into the city during the games.
Great video, I'm really happy you've highlighted this topic, as except french media I didn't see any info about this
Amusing to be posting this the day after the line 14 extension to Orly and St Denis opens...
Another line 11 extension to Southeast railway station is currently still in development... Next 1-2 years will be open
@@nuffaildaniaelle977 No, Line 11 extension to Rosny is already open. A next phase to Noisy won't be open before 2039 at best.
hey, I went visit the new stations and I've been blown away by the attention to details. It's truly a remarkable work and you're videos is an ode to that. Thanks for making this content.
Flying to Paris from Australia just to ride their trains and check out all the cool stations
Although this channel always makes me feel grateful to live in Paris and have access to transit many dream of, these things always seem better on paper (and on TH-cam) than in lived reality. On the five RER C journeys I took this month, I waited a cumulative 2 hours on the platform.
Yeah the C seems very hit or miss for me too, but the trains are quite pleasant and still faster than the car in most cases
@@unepintade I'm reading your comment on a packed RER A platform feeling frustrated but knowing ultimately that you are correct
This is much better than The Sphere
which one?
@@LouisChang-le7xo LV?
How about Elon's "revolutionary" Tesla tunnels? Gosh, we in America sure love snake oil salesmen! The slimier, the better too - just look who's getting ready to return to the White House!
@V45194 good one 😁
Mind that the service is still very limited. As you mention the 15 min frequency, the trains are only available between 10a.m. and 4p.m. on Weekdays and the new extension is branched out from the rest of the line, meaning you have to change at either Gare du Nord or Haussmann St-Lazare to get to the new stations.
Like on the early days of the Elizabeth Line where you had to change at Paddington and Liverpool St and switch between the upstairs and downstairs platforms to continue your journey.
The final price tag is 5.5Md€. Here too costs overruns do occur. The next lines needing to be fixed are both RER C and A. The former is to have a major reshuffle of its services pattern before the introduction of new rolling stock, likely made up of two distinct classes. RER D will get the same class of EMUs than the RER A, but a new tunnel between Châtelet - Les Halles and Gare du Nord is no more on the cards, on costs grounds. So long too for RER F studied in the 90s in order to relieve Metro Line 13 by linking Gare Montparnasse and Gare Sr Lazare suburban services.
D not A, of course.
You should also check the extension of subway lines 11 and 14. Quite interesting. And do not forget the dark side of Paris transit system: RER B line, overcrowded and undermaintained!
RER D : I'm a joke to you?
I wish that the RER and the Metro had the same fare system and free transfer. It would have helped me a lot when I was in Paris.
Also, I have finally tested the RER NG, when I took the RER E from Haussman-Saint-Lazarre to Magenta for the first time last Thursday, and my god it looks SO COOL!! I hope they plan to put some on RER B afterwards cause they're NEEDED
theres gonna be the MI20 aka MI NG on the B. They wont use the RER NG, as they arent adapted to the lines. The MI20 will have lower height
Perhaps you should start a series called Olympic games city transit expansion or World Cup expansion. As well as analyst the bidding proposals when they arrive.
And it will be a great access to the Olympics and Paralympics swim stadium in Nanterre 😊
Fantastic video really informative can't wait to visit the system in a few months. Any chance of a video on the transport in Bremen especially the fantastic s Bahn.
I love these new colorful single deck trains(took them to Versailles)
Paris has been spending huge sums of money to extend Paris Metro, RER regional rail and building out tram networks just to clear up an notorious traffic jam problem that has existed even _before_ World War II. This has finally made it possible to start opening up streets to pedestrian and bicycle traffic only in the last 25 years.
Mwaoh, London refuses* to deal with its traffic jam that's been there since about 1750. So happy that Anne Hidalgo is using everything that she can to make life better for Parisians.
* I think Sadiq Kahn _wants_ to deal with it like Hidalgo, but he's hampered by the British economy & those 36 bickering boroughs...
@@LeafHuntress public transport in Ile de France is not managed by Anne Hidalgo. but from the state and Ile de France mobilité
@@athrunzala6770 Public transport no, paris itself yes. All the bike lanes, bus lanes, pedestrian roads, thats hidalgo. There a reason why shes still mayor; the parisians generally like her, the banlieusards dont.
@@athrunzala6770 I meant all the new bike lanes in the form of the RER map etc.
It's a whole network.
In London, because those boroughs refuse to work together or with the mayor, you've got insane points where bike infrastructure just ... stops ...
That is not conducive to get people cycling.
And you want people cycling because every person that walks, cycles or takes public transport is a car less on the road.
By the by, i really doubt that ministry of transport simply sets up shop in Paris to build a new metro or tram line without consulting with the mayor.
I was scared this would never open because like about one year ago a weekly newsflash about Paris transit interviewed someone from the EOLE (RER E) project that they needed more money because of delays and problems during construction, and that SNCF (French rail) wasn't willing to invest money in this. I'm glad they managed to find money and completed this part of the project! I'm hoping this part of the line gets more reliable in the near future though
Completely unrelated but would love to see a video explainer on the Adelaide Suburban Rail network from you, I don't publish but I consider myself an expert on the network and it's quirks and would love for you to share our network with the world
Incredible stuff, you get so jealous of Paris and how they can do all of this stuff. Like we just opened a 5 stop extension to a metro line in Copenhagen 3 days ago but arent even remotely close to Paris' level or even most other European countries. We're closer to Canada than the rest of the continent frankly.
Just, Paris' planning and action is impecable
I'm too impatient to see if you do mention it later in the video, but 3:43 with the overhead line suspended on supports coming out from the platform roof is just the neatest overhead line I've ever seen in a station.
Would love it if we could get that in the UK when we finally get some wires in Bristol Temple Meads.
i love your videos
I just kind of zone out during these videos because of how depressing it is comparing a huge project (which to them is just another train line without any fanfare) to what we have here in the States. Ugh
Great content though, not knocking that!
Your comment helps me realise how lucky we are 😂
@@maxime_j totaly it is true that when something is good, we don't realise it and just complain on the bad stuff
I love Porte Maillot on RER E. Those tubes for the escalators are very reminiscent of Charles de Gaulle Terminal 1 central escalators that look very cool.
La Defense ows its architecture to the fact that it was dug beneath the underground car park of the CNIT arched building, a very sensitive area. Terrain was escavated bit by bit and supported along the way, So this architecture was the only one technically possible without demolishing everything above it.
On the other side of the esplanade there is the Westfield shapping mall that features a place reserved for a Line 1 metro station since the 30s that would have been used for Line 15 had the owners of the said shopping mall not interfered... (Unlawfully I must say since the GP Express is a LAW first and foremost !!! alas, French governement is weak these days. Had it is been China, Westfield would have been expropriated, the shopping mall demolished for good measure... So the SGP had to find another place for the Defense station on Line 15 which will be further South and... FAR from the existing lines... a transfer made bad because of a shopping mall owner acting like stupid NIMBYs !
I remember the first GP Express public debate tha was hold in Palais des Congrès back in 2010... The then SGP president had said 'we want to avoid a St Lazare Auber or Châtelet Les Halles situation the most possible...' So much for that. So yesh, even Paris transportation has its hassles, it's not just the USA.
That's why I wish Line 1 was extended to Nanterre La Folie to offer better transfers with Line 15 and other future GPX lines such as 16/17 and possibly 18/19. RER A station Nanterre Prefecture is barely 200 m South and a corridor with a travelator could be built to also feature a RER A transfer. That way the La Defense hib would doubled with Nanterre on the Western Side and La Défense on the Eastern side to diminish transfer loads on La Défense. Line 1 could also push towards the University station and the nearby Hospital near the Seine.
To be fixed, RER D needs new tunnels between Châtelet and Gare du Nord. (for RER B to be precise given the current platform configuration in CLH), and an ovepass rebuilt North of Gare du Nord to obtain the same configuration in Gare du Nord RER station as in CLH with B tracks around D tracks in the middle (GdN RER platforms are currently BDBD and not BDDB as they should...).
It's the only way to fix the problem, that overpass and two one track tunnels for RER B around the existing tunnel for RER D. For those who ask why, look in Carto Metro web site...
I hope you will check out Lines 11 and 14 extensions.
I love the Line 11 extension, it brings a fresh look to the old Paris metro style. If you come to check it out yourself or asks for your correspondants for info, don't forget to check out the main entrance to la Dhuys station on a hillside with a direct visual contact of the next (above ground) Coteaux Beauclair station down below !!! La Dhuys is my favorite station on that extension because of that and the galery above the tracks that is very scenic. That and the Romainville-Carnot 6 elevators+ crossing stairs shaft !!!
Line 14 extensions in Grand Paris Express style look more blend and international that Paris metro, i'm not a huge fan of the style, but as you are a Montreal metro fan, I think you will find it particularly adequate for your taste. Oh and Line 14 brings the full height and low roof platform screen doors to Paris.
That being said, that station spacing makes it faster than a RER B+Orlyval connection to get to Orly airport ! The stations, although blend or even ugly to my taste are functional and simple, that is quite disorientating compared to old style stations.
On Line 14 extensions, St Denis is massive due to Grand Paris future lines. Thiais Orly is very nice in its design, can't wait for Gustave Roussy to open in December and reveal the 50+ m diameter and 50m deep well the station is built in with a glass roof allowing direct sunlight in. (even closed, you can see two windows per platform that give a view of the station with the sunlight when the train goes by if you pay attention...)
For now Line 14 has become Paris longest metro line but doesn't dethrone Lille's Line 2 which is 2 km longer and has 44 stations.
Next year, Line 15 will dethrone every longest lines in France with its 33 km first section, that will grow up to 75 km when the loop is finished in 2031.
line 14 opened to Orly, linking the airport to the capital in just 24 minutes
Please do a video about Sarajevos public transport system and its future and potential projescts and extension. I would really love to see your opinion on it
The real genius behind this huge infrastructure project in and around Paris was the creation of a purpose built company, public, yet independent to oversee the whole thing, the Société du Grand Paris). The reason was that Président Sarkozy who initiated the project knew all too well that long term grand projects have a habit of getting cancelled by future governments and he wanted something really future proof. Having an independent central authority also helped a lot with getting everything interconnected with minimal interference from local politicians. All in all, in spite of the difficulties this has been a great success so much so that the company has now been renamed Société des Grands Travaux (Great works company) and tasked to modernise the rest of France infrastructure
I don't think there is any other city on the planet building nicer transport right now.
1:01 The trains stopped there for more than two decades? That’s a ludicrous turnaround time.
The decision on which route to take for the Western extension and the lack of funding because RER E and Line 14 first phases as well as Tram development siphoned all funds since 1990s... The Grand Paris project awakened things a lot to get things done, the Olympics then brang the last whip swing to it.
Surprised that you didn’t compare it to the Regional Connector that Los Angeles opened last year.
London should build Crossrail 2, 3 etc as they have clear economic benefits for big cities
Could you make a video explaining how france can build rail infrastructure so fast and cheap ? Here in germany it's a shitshow
I think because we have a whole ecosystem of companies specialized in public transit, who are active in France and abroad. I guess having all the expertise and experience helps reduce the costs
We have a very strong engineering and private sector, present worldwide. Add to this traditionally less car-friendly politicians in many cities than the germans, and, to be fair, a very good administrative framework geared towards supporting transit, as well as sane finance policies. The Cour des Comptes is a real asset here.
Oh, and last but certainly not least, we don't finance our public transit only through usual taxes, the main transit payers are the companies on the landscapes they're set up. It's called "versement mobilité", and allows for unlocking significant amounts of money.
@TransitExplained, how do you guys deal with nimbys? Here in germany they delay project for ages, demand expensive tunnels and even successfully stopped a hsr line between hamburg and hannover
@@Dalex1910 Paris has few of these in general. We have some obviously (hello the 16th arrondissement refusing to close the T3 line around Paris). But more importantly, transit is, for locals, first and foremost seen as a tool to have their property value heightened. Also, we have more anti-car policies than in Germany, making public transit that much more competitive, especially to reach Paris.
This is a particularity of Paris, you'll find more of them outside of the île-de-France region. Also, the state is traditionally more huh... autoritarian on these kinds of projects XD. For the better or worse.
@@Dalex1910 for HSR lines, it’s the kind of projects that are legally classified as « project of national interest » or « project of general interest »…which makes it easy to expropriate with compensation
Talk about the Rheinbahn network of Düssldorf Region, the capital of the state of nrw in Germany
Damn, that Extension to La Défense could have really come in handy, when I was in Paris two weeks ago.
it has been opened for more than a month now lol
@@justinress2782 it opened in may tho
You know what I respect about you Reece. You don't pedantically try to "correctly" pronounce place names in a foreign language. You just do it in your regular Anglo -Canadian accent.
You just did a video about France and included no botched guttural R sounds and no nasal vowels. And honestly that is so genuine, welcome and rare in a world (at least an Anglosphere) where it seems everyone is trying so hard to be someone they're not.
Keep being you! Youre doing great! 😊
So it's wrong if I, an anglophone who speaks french, prounounces French place names in a french way?
Please make a video about Bucharest's metro and the new line that just started to be under construction, M6.
Paris metro might probably be the closest to the NYC subway to be honest…
The NYC Subway has fast and slow trains. The RER does the job of the fast trains and the Métro does the job of the slow trains.
I say London is more like NYC in terms of transit. Paris is another level above both cities.
Great transit shame Paris is a dump
@@crowmob-yo6ry Paris, at the start didn't have the same philosophy. The metro was built and an underground tram, hence the small gauge of the carriages and the nummerous stations way too close to eachother than in London or NYC or even Moscow for that matter. Nowadays, metros are more built with the standards of Line 14 with a km between stations, it's a good compromise between thinly serving areas and overall average speed. In that, London and NYC were more visionnary because they saw beyond the inner city limits from the start when Paris just wanted a Paris underground tram. RER network is not enough to serve the rest of the region. Truth is, we would need many more lines like Line 14 with the same standards of longer trains with a faster speed and less stops to serve a larger area more efficently. The old metro can only go so far as the neighbouring suburbian cities without becoming too cumbersome to use in terms traveltime.
Paris is KILOMETERSSSSSSS ahead of transit alright
Its not just that Paris knows how to build, it is that the soil conditions favor tunneling which makes it cheaper.
Good soil conditions in Paris? 😂😂😂
I always find it amazing how developed countries have the power to change their cities. As someone from a third world country, I witness how my city just cannot do anything.
Same. I am from a 3rd world country: the United States.
@@theultimatereductionist7592 The US is becoming a third world country as it becomes less white every year. And thats coming from a Filipino.
Sad but funny but you need civilized riders.
@@theultimatereductionist7592 The US becomes more third world the less white it becomes.
Wish the Spanish government build more cercanias lines around Madrid like Paris&France do
Be happy to have clean city!
Paris or Marseille are very dirty, and lot of insecurity...
Spain is much better than France, would like to live in your country 😪
@@swann67000 The subject is public transport, right?
@@athrunzala6770 in public transport "clean" and "secure" are important isn it?
@@swann67000 he doesn't want madrid to look like paris but have as much public transport as us... so you're off topic with your cleanliness and safety story
@@swann67000 t'en as pas marre de vivre sur la télé? Pcq paris n'est vrmt pas aussi sale que t'en pense, vrmt. meme les quartiers nords c'est pas comme ca... et je dit ca comme qqn qui vient des bobos de l'ouest.
And now you can do a video on the brand new Metro 14 extension 😅
Damn I live there and I didn't even know they extended that line, lol
That said, it makes me feel like the south of Paris (left bank of la Seine) is really getting neglected as far as RER goes...
I want an expansion in Rio de Janeiro 😢
Please have these Frenchies come over, run, and replace BART, CalTrain, ACE, Amtrack, CAHSR, and our metro lines in Northern CA. Interconnectivity is a foreign word to our rail authorities.
It's the rich NIMBYs' fault.
I just want to ask on behalf of Australia, can we convince the New South Wales state government to buy some of this RER NG rolling stock for testing? A mixed double/single-deck train would be incredibly useful on Sydney's suburban railways and it seems like this model is having way fewer technical problems than our current massively-delayed replacement trains. (Admittedly the current government wants to build future trains in Australia but both Alstom and Bombardier have factories here, they could simply copy the RER NG design and build it locally).
The RER NG is based on the Alstom X’Trapolis family. The Transperth C-Series, Melbourne X’Trapolis 100 and the new Melbourne X’Trapolis 2.0 are versions of this model. With the NSW Government pushing back replacement of the existing Tangara (T-sets) trains until at least 2036, the designs used for the Waratahs (A and B-sets) will most likely be out of date. The Alstom X’Trapolis Cityduplex would be a good fit for Sydney Trains.
@@michaelcobbin The Melbourne X'Trapolis-es and the Transperth C-Series-es are both being built in Australia, right? And I think that neither of them have had massive technical problems across the entire fleet? So yeah, let's get the NSW government to buy a bunch of double-decker or mixed-decker X'Trapolises.
AND the new trains will be capable of 140 Km/h cruise speed, while we, here in Montreal, are stuck with 80 Km/h REM trains ...
ne confonds pas les métros parisiens capables de rouler à 80, peut-être 100 km/h, et les trains de banlieue Transilien ou RER roulant jusqu'à 140 km/h mais comparables à l'AMT / Exo
@@paname514_bis Non je ne confonds pas, j'ai vécu 27 ans à Paris. Le REM pour être efficace devrait pouvoir rouler à 100+ Km/h, dépendant de la distance entre les stations, comme les RER/Transilien.
Can you do a video about nederlandse spoorwegen
So is the next video from our favorite Parisian youtube channel be on the newly open extension of line 14 ? Kinda of a mess on the topic of the ticket (but much easier than a lot of people thinks)
They installed devices before the control lines to pay the difference between a metro ticket and the airport tax (because that's what it is) or 10€.
A bit like in Japan where each station has a machine to pay for the unpaid part of the ticket.
They've literally advertisedd everywhere that its an extra fee, its written on the plans and on the trains. Are people just illiterate...?
@@cementedrebar I was thinking about the fact that if you are traveling to the T7 or Line 18, and each kind of navigo will have a different tarification (but the daily/weekly/monthly/annual it not more expensive)
If you live in Seattle, you’ll see electric rail in neighboring cities like Tacoma and Everett, but it’s Light Rail…
and it travels at the speed of a bicycle on fully grade seperated viaduct. crappy bus connections, capacity problems for extremely low ridership even by west coast standards, etc
This should be the standard in every major city.
indonesian/jakarta video when?
Add in th criminal neglect of Paris Gare Austerlitz...
Well at least some important renovations are taking place at gare d'Austerlitz
Man I wish we had anything like this in North America....
could you please do a video about portugal?
Sooooooo jealous of Parisians
I just don't understand the pricing and WHY it's so expensive to build in North America. In Toronto for example, the under construction Ontario line has gone from 15 billion to 27 billion! And it's not even going to be as long as some of the lines in Paris. I get that the line will go through some of the most densely packed areas of downtown in North America, i still just think that it shouldn't be this expensive.
I believe the higher cost figure includes the cost of the maintenance and operation contract over 30 years, not just the cost of construction. They may also have used the total financing cost, which includes the debt principal and total interest costs (probably) over a 30 year period.
Those extensions are well needed. RER A and RER B are garbage and sturated nowadays. But the Olympics really boosted the Parisian network. France is great at building infrastructures for decent cost.
B is getting new stock. Nothing much can be done for the A.
It's funny that you praise us for controlling the cost because here in France, people complained about the project going over-budget. The SNCF even had to stop working and demanded insurance for more fundings for the project.
Why is it that some the newest RER trains (MI2N & MI09) seems to have a design discouraging walking between cars? I do see they have some form of gangway, but the design seems to discourage using them
The gangways are not opened to public, that why its seems discouraging because we can't use them to transit between cars lol. They're only use for maintenance I guess.
the MI2N and MI09 (upgraded MI2N Altéo) are quite old and were the first types of RER trains to even have the ability to walk between cars. The newer NAT and RER NG are far more advanced in this regard
MI09 is an upgraded MI2N, and the MI2N uses old systems, so they didnt have real space for a gangway, as it was all filled with electrical components. Thats really the only flaw of the MI09, 09 for 2009, so its not new either.
Honestly, it's just so depressing that America can probably build 3 meters of tram for the same price and have a giant parking lot, little to no bus connection, and run right on a stroad at a snails pace while texas trucks streak past running over that one pedestrian trying to access the train.
Are you going to make any video on RRTS in india? If yes, any estimates?
Paris olympics just want to mention it
Doubling the Paris-Nord ↔ Châtelet RER tunnel (which is essential since RER D borrows RER B's tunnel currently) will not be even half as easy as the RER E tunnel.
Moreover, it's not planned anytime soon
@@noefillon1749 it'll have to happen eventually though, if they want to solve the problems on both lines
@@steph.h. I hope Nexteo (partial automation) and the lines 14 and 15 will help relieve RER B and D before then
I just want to pay Parisian prices for transit
😂 he said fixing rer d when the b is literally asking also for help
There is nothing we can do for the B, all we can do is wait for the new rolling stock to arrive, which should be these next years.
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Why no station at / near Arc de triomphe?
RER A is already stopping at Charles de Gaulle Etoile which is just under the Arc the Triomph. They made it go to Neuilly Porte Maillot instead (why is actually pretty close to the Arc de Triomphe).
So RER A is doing Auber (Saint-Lazare) > Charles de Gaulle Etoile > La Défense
While RER E is doing Haussmann Saint-Lazare > Neuilly Porte Maillot > La Défense
It's probably to avoid too much repetitive route.
Charles de Gaulle - Étoile is the station for the Arc de Triomphe, served by RER A, and Metro 1,2, & 6.
@@jiawei.mp4 And allow a transfer with Line C that didn't exist back when RER A was built. The Auteuil Line was a very mediocre service at the time and was very limited, not worth a transfer back in the 60s.
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I’m confused
I know it‘s complaining from a rather privileged perspective but it‘s definitely frustrating as a Berlin citizen that our neighbors in the west manage to build so much in such relatively short periods while our projects keep being delayed and our U-Bahn literally has lines that are disconnected from the rest simply because old tunnels from war times are not intact anymore which leads to major challenges with train repairs. And we literally have a super short part of a tram line that’s supposed to be moved closer to Ostkreuz (a major train station that’s one of the 4 most important train stations on the Ringbahn) but already took almost a decade to plan before anything started and it’s probably taking more time.
Berlin definitely has good transport but it’s no where close to what it could be and in some parts not even what it was (West-Berlin took the US-American approach and got rid of all the tram tracks when the city was still split).
But it’s most likely improving soon. We’ll get a new like soon for the S-Bahn that connects the main station to Ringbahn but unfortunately it’s only the first of 3 major sections of that line and construction didn’t even start for the second section and the third one isn’t close to be fully planned out. We definitely take ages to build some relevant instructure projects.
What a bizarre comment about crossrail. The world media did not all talk about crossrail, only the media you read which is likely in English. The same applies to French projects which we well discussed in the French speaking world
Sad to live in a poor country and realize that the biggest inauguration of the year in your city was a BRT line.
Isn't that more a Rio thing, rather than a Brazil as whole one? Because in last few years Salvador and São Paulo had plenty of metro construction
@@MarcoAntonio-hw7si I don't know if Salvador is a great example, they are trying to improve local transportation, but the metro is still smaller than Rio's and they have decommissioned a suburban train line. São Paulo is a great example, but it's the only Brazilian state with a robust investment capacity. So although it's partly Rio's fault, there's also a lack of investment at a national level. There are no major projects in Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Porto Alegre, Recife, Belém, Florianópolis...
@@guilhermetavares4705 yeah, now thinking about it you're right
Except for one quite important point, this is yet another excellent video. The one weakness is that you repeatedly refer to London's 'Crossrail'. Except amongst certain diehard railway enthusiasts, the term 'Crossrail' has fallen out of use. Everyone else refers to the new fast East-West line in London as the 'Elizabeth Line' . THAT IS THE NAME ON THE UNDERGROUND MAP.
Crossrail was the name of the project. It will always be the case that it was the name of the project.
Ligne E is part of the RER. What network is the Elizabeth line part of?
@@lazrseagull54 It is regarded as part of the London UNDERground, evewn though in the west it reaches Reading, nearly 60 kms from London Just to confuse matters even more; the north-south 'Thameslink' line is part of the British national railway system!
@@lazrseagull54 The London Transport rail network. This consists of the Underground and Overground systems. These words are capitalised because they are titles.
@@severs1966Technically the Elizabeth Line is separate from both the Underground _and_ the Overground. You could imagine TfL taking over Thameslink and unifying that with the Elizabeth Line into a third heavy-rail category.