Paris Transit Thread - Page 27

Minato Ku · #**521** Posted **Jun 2, 2015, 11:20 PM**

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Construction begins on Paris Line 11 extension
Tuesday, June 02, 2015 Written by Keith Barrow

THE president of Ile-de-France region Mr Jean-François Carenco, mayor of Paris Mrs Anne Hidalgo, and the newly-appointed president executive director of Paris Transport Authority (RATP) Mrs Elisabeth Borne, attended a ceremony on June 1 to mark the start of preliminary works on the eastern extension of Paris metro Line 11 from Mairie des Lilas to Rosny-Bois-Perrier

The 5.4km extension will include six stations serving the districts of Les Lilas, Romainville, Noisy-le-Sec, Montreuil, and Rosny-sous-Bois, where a new depot will be constructed.

The €1.3bn project is being funded by the regional government of Ile-de-France, the French state, Société du Grand Paris, the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, the City of Paris, and RATP

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http://www.railjournal.com/index.php...ml?channel=525

Busy Bee · #**522** Posted **Jun 2, 2015, 11:42 PM**

All these Metro extensions are amazing. Go Paris!

Minato Ku · #**523** Posted **Jun 9, 2015, 5:56 PM**

Renderings of the stations of the first section of the line 15. (Pont de Sèvres to Noisy Champs).
http://www.lexpress.fr/diaporama/dia...86398.html?p=0

Minato Ku · #**524** Posted **Jun 25, 2015, 10:21 PM**

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Paris Gare du Nord remodelling plans announced
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Written by Keith Fender

SNCF CEO Mr Guillaume Pepy and the mayor of Paris Ms Anne Hidalgo presented plans on June 24 to expand capacity at Gare du Nord, Paris' busiest station which is used by up to 800,000 passengers per day.

The first phase includes restoration of the existing buildings dating back to the 1860s and significant expansion of the space available for Eurostar services to London, with new mezzanine waiting areas envisaged above the tracks and a new business class lounge in space formerly used as a hotel. This phase also includes the refurbishment of the underground four-track RER station serving lines B and D, which is used by 80% of Gare du Nord passengers.
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Plans for significant expansion of the station between 2019 and 2023 have been drawn up by architects Wilmotte & Associates working with SNCF.
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http://www.railjournal.com/index.php...ml?channel=524

Minato Ku · #**525** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 8:31 PM**

Balard
New entrance and ticket hall.

Well... the platforms are not new.

streetscaper · #**526** Posted **Jun 30, 2015, 9:14 PM**

beautiful job they did!

Minato Ku · #**527** Posted **Jul 1, 2015, 12:02 PM**

Grand Paris Express

Line 15 South

• Video Link

Line 18

• Video Link

Minato Ku · #**528** Posted **Jul 8, 2015, 8:56 PM**

Nanterre-Université
Construction of a new station concourse.

Track of the provisional platform has been removed, the widening of the island platform of the RER A is completed.

Qubert · #**529** Posted **Jul 9, 2015, 2:26 PM**

Good job on the station reno @ Balard. I know the Paris metro has acquired a reputation for being dirty, but I like how the RATP has been making stations more crisp and modern while still having an eye to staying within the historical aesthetic of the system.

Minato Ku · #**530** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 10:06 PM**

Northern extension

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Tunnelling begins on Paris metro extension
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

TUNNELLING was officially launched on the 5.8km northern extension of Paris metro Line 14 from St Lazare to Mairie de Saint Ouen on September 9, when the project's first tunnel boring machine was christened Magaly

The ceremony was attended by French transport minister Mr Alain Vidalies, the mayor of Paris Mrs Anne Hidalgo, president of Ile-de-France regional council Mr Jean-Paul Huchon, and Paris Transport Authority (RATP) president Mrs Elisabeth Borne.

The extension will relieve the heavily congested section of Line 13 north of St Lazare and has a design capacity of 40,000 passengers per hour. It will interchange with RER Line C, Transilien (suburban) Line L, and light rail Line T3b...

http://www.railjournal.com/index.php...ml?channel=525

Two TBM will be used for the extension from Saint-Lazare to Mairie de Saint-Ouen.
The first TBM will bore between Saint-Lazare to Clichy in two phases.
A second TBM will bore the rest of from Clichy to Saint-Denis, also in two phases.

Minato Ku · #**531** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 10:07 PM**

Clichy - Saint-Ouen RER
Construction work

Minato Ku · #**532** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 10:09 PM**

Line 15, La Défense
Plan of the new station La Défense on line 15

Minato Ku · #**533** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 10:17 PM**

Château Rouge
Enlargement of the ticket hall and creation of new access.

Access of the station is undersized for its current traffic.
The station had 6,879,272 entries in 2014 for only one single entrance and a tiny ticket hall.

Work underway from July 7, 2015 to the summer of 2017.
The station will close for 14 months from May 20, 2016 to summer of 2017

Green: current area
Yellow: additional space

Minato Ku · #**534** Posted **Sep 28, 2015, 10:19 PM**

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SNCF and RATP agree Paris public transport contracts
Friday, September 25, 2015

ILE-DE-FRANCE transport authority Stif announced on September 24 that it has agreed terms with French National Railways (SNCF) and Paris Transport Authority (RATP) for two contracts to fund operation and investment in the bus, light rail, metro, and suburban rail networks in and around Paris

Stif will pay RATP a total of €11bn between 2016 and 2020 and a total of €8.5bn will be invested in the bus and urban rail networks including €4.2bn from the French government, local authorities, and the RATP budget
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http://www.railjournal.com/index.php...ml?channel=537

New Brisavoine · #**535** Posted **Oct 26, 2015, 9:04 PM**

Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport goes Chinese!

(just saw this in a video released last week by the Paris Airports authority)

Minato Ku · #**536** Posted **Oct 26, 2015, 9:11 PM**

Good thing, I think that we will see more and more chinese signages.
We have already chinese announcements in public transportation.
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The project of the link between Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est is back
The STIF (Paris Region transport Autority) has published a study about the construction of this link.

Several hypotheses are envisaged.
Improvement of streets (scénario A) or tunnels (scénarios B and C) and this study is clearly in favor of the tunnel option (scénario C).
The difference between scenario B and C is that the the scenario B is only creates a connection to an existing tunnel under the platforms on the back of the station while the scenario also creates link to the main passenger hall.

Scenario C is favored.
The little blue square in the middle is Magenta RER E station

Cost in million of euros.

Closer look of the scénario C
Platforms in red: CDG Express

They envision the opening of the tunnel for 2012.

http://stif.org/IMG/pdf/n538d_docp.pdf

New Brisavoine · #**537** Posted **Nov 12, 2015, 9:33 PM**

For all transit lovers, here's a live map tracking all the Métro, RER, and suburban trains currently moving through Greater Paris, with their exact locations:

http://tracker.geops.ch/?z=11&s=1&x=...15&l=transport

Note 1: keep in mind that it's 10:30pm local time as I'm posting this
Note 2: national and international high-speed TGV trains are apparently not indicated on the map

begratto · #**538** Posted **Nov 12, 2015, 9:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine

For all transit lovers, here's a live map tracking all the Métro, RER, and suburban trains currently moving through Greater Paris, with their exact locations:

http://tracker.geops.ch/?z=11&s=1&x=...15&l=transport

Note 1: keep in mind that it's 10:30pm local time as I'm posting this
Note 2: national and international high-speed TGV trains are apparently not indicated on the map

Wow. That's amazing. Both the map itself and the numbers of trains running at 10:44pm.

New Brisavoine · #**539** Posted **Nov 12, 2015, 9:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by begratto

Wow. That's amazing. Both the map itself and the numbers of trains running at 10:44pm.

And they don't even map the TGV high-speed trains, neither do they map what people call "tramway" here.

This is a Parisian "tramway" (I've always been unsure how to translate this in American English):

New Brisavoine · #**540** Posted **Nov 12, 2015, 9:51 PM**

Actually I stand corrected. They do seem to track the T2 tramway (first picture above), but they don't track the other tramways (2nd picture).