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At 12.4 km (7.7 mi) in length, it is the ninth-busiest line of the system, with 105.2 million riders in 2017. Slightly over 2 km (1.2 mi) of the line is built on an elevated viaduct with four aerial stations. In 1903, it was the location of the worst incident in the history of the Paris Métro, the fire at Couronnes.
The RATP bus network covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the vast majority of its near suburbs.Operated by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), this constitutes a dense bus network complementary to other public transport networks, all organized and financed by Île-de-France Mobilités.
The Paris Métro runs mostly underground; surface sections include sections on viaducts in Paris (Lines 1, 2, 5, and 6) and at the surface in the suburbs (Lines 1, 5, 8, and 13). In most cases, both tracks are laid in a single tunnel. Almost all lines follow roads, having been built by the cut-and-cover method near the surface (the earliest by ...
The modern system has been superimposed on a complex map of streets and wide boulevards that were set in their current routes in the 19th century. On a national level, it is the centre of a web of road and railway, and at a more local level, it is covered with a dense mesh of bus, tram and metro service networks.
The following is a list of all stations of the Paris Métro. As of the end of January 2025, there are a total of 321 stations on 16 different lines. Introductory notes
The platforms of the two lines are of standard configuration. Two in number per stop, they are separated by the metro tracks located in the centre and the vault is elliptical. The station on line 2 is fitted out in a blue Ouï-dire style. The lighting canopies, of the same colour, are supported by curved hook in the shape of a scythe.
The pass can be bought for 1, 2, 3 or 5 consecutive days for public transport zones 1-3 or 1-5 (includes airport transport). [1] [2] [3]Once purchased, it allows free travel on the Paris Métro, RER and Transilien trains (within the chosen fare zones), Buses (both the RATP bus network, which covers Paris and its near suburbs, and the Optile network, which covers the wider Grande couronne area ...
The embryonic (and as yet unnamed) RER was not properly conceived until the 1965 Schéma directeur d'aménagement et d'urbanisme (roughly: "master plan for urban development"), which envisioned an H-shaped network with two north-south routes. [14] Between 1969 and 1970, RATP purchased the Vincennes and Saint-Germain lines from SNCF, as the ...