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Thank you for these videos they are very informative for people like myself a spinal cord injured person dependent on a wheelchair full time traveling to Paris in December 2024 you are an angel for making these videos.

Thank you Matt for your informative videos. I am a full time wheelchair user and is traveling to Paris in December. Your videos are beyond helpful for someone like me. <3 keep up your excellent work :)

Amazing video, I am traveling there this year. Can I call you someway to get some tips?

The lady accompanying you through La Défense station was so nice! I'm impressed how much she was able to help despite not speaking English.

Great videos, thanks. I didn’t see many mobility scooters when I was in 6th recently, nor many dropped kerbs. Is there an area which would be better for me if I could hire one?

It is important to so many people to have videos on accessible travel around Paris. Thank you so much. Love this.

Outstanding video for anyone negotiating the maze between CDG and Chatelet-Les Halles or anyone using elevators. Love it.

Thank you for the video! I just want to point out the Navigo card you got (that requires a photo) is the Navigo Découverte, which is required for the weekly and monthly passes. The Navigo Easy card is white-and-blue, does not require any personal information, but can only be loaded with day passes and normal one-time tickets ("t+ tickets").

From CDG airport to the city.. do we need a separate ticket for RER train or we can use a navigo card ?

Would I be able to get around in the train in a power chair? How would I go about doing that?

Chatelet-Les Halles is a terrible maze for a walking person! Thanks for this!

Combien de stations de métro y a-t-il à Saint-Germain des Prés ?

Thank you for sharing.😊😊

Thanks for sharing! We will be in this area in a couple of months and this was helpful.

Thanks for showing us the way.😊

If you have Problem walking getting around Paris is Hell !

It's really good of you to do this. It will help so many people.

Hi. How will you know if the rer and metro station have elevator? I'm planning to take train from cdg to notre dame. Thank you!

Thank you for your video so if you had to do it all over which hotel would you recommend I use a manual wheelchair for Mobility and will be going with my fiancé so he can help pushing my chair. Trying to do Paris in a week then go to Spain and Germany. Will definitely have help but want something fairly accessible and you ended your video number two relatively quickly. You stated I I would stay there the next time, but where would you stay? , thanks for your videos. … do you have a Facebook or Instagram that I can follow your trip?

Thanks but will take the bus and or taxi. Remember you came from a red eye flight then to do this incredible walking navigation…way too much!

Love the idea, I am watching the video!! Me encanta la idea, estoy viendo el video.

Yeah Paris' mass transit can be a bit crazy, it has a strong whiff of Tokyo for the massive crowds, extreme train frequency and gigantic interchanges but also a heavy touch of New York for the not so orderly behavior... And Châtelet les Halles is a monster station, just the RER part alone can see over 120 trains per hour, each carrying 1200 to nearly 3000 people. Also at peak, on the "regular metro" side, M14 has 40 or 45 trains per direction per hour, M1 and M4 each have something like 35 trains per direction per hour, plus M7 and M11 each around 30 trains per direction per hour. That's something like 460 trains per hour stopping at this underground complex during peaks. It's mesmerizing to stop for a couple minutes and watch this ballet of trains and crowds going all directions, like an ant farm, the whole thing becomes a living creature of its own. That's why they have crowd control agents (some call them pushers) on the RER platforms during rush hours to help doors close and not delay trains. They are easy to spot as they usually wear a colored vest and often also a cap. M14 is accessible from steet to train but the extremely short dwell times at stations sometimes are way too short for me to board / alight in time. (I walk but with a crutch and "toddler's gait"). I've regularly found myself "enjoying" a detour, sometimes as far as Gare de Lyon or Bercy or even Bibliothèque François Mitterand, because I simply wasn't able to be fast enough to get off the train at the desired stop. Especially at rush hour when, as I like to call it, "HAL is in control of the train" (*) and the stop time isn't long enough for me to stand and reach the door. So, M14 is physically accessible, sure, but at times not so much "in practice", when doors only stay open for 5 or 7 seconds and the train is packed. One other humongous interchange station is the Opera - Auber - Haussmann - Saint-Lazare underground complex. (Here lines M14, RER A & E are accessible). It serves a mainline train station (Saint-Lazare), while 7 different metro lines and 2 RER lines also stop here, some of them multiple times. Lines M3 and M9 having each respectively 3 and 2 different stops along the length of the same interconnected complex at different locations. It's quite something to navigate too, especially when you have a tedious connection, like between M8 and RER E. (M4 has 2 stops in Châtelet les Halles complex, one called Châtelet and the other Les Halles). Plus, at Opera -[ ...]- Saint-Lazare complex, the RER stations are of the "vaulted arch cathedral-esque" type. Gigantic cavities... Just imagine a vaulted M14 station like Madeleine and multiply by 2 in length and about 3 in width and height. That's just bonkers but quite fun to visit, and interesting from an architectural standpoint. This giant underground maze was also the location where most of the action happened in the great 1985 movie "Subway" by Luc Besson. You really navigated the whole thing, from CDG to Châtelet to Madeleine, quite brilliantly! Kudos. Surely it wasn't your first time, right? Paris streets aren't very easy either, they're often packed with many obstacles, e-scooters, bikes, people, trashcans, etc. (*) M14 (like M1 and M4), is a fully driverless automated line, as you probably noticed. And at super peak, the automated system sometimes decides to significantly reduce dwell times to a mere handful of seconds in order to regulate spacing, even if it means only letting people get off and not letting much people board, as the next train is only a few dozen seconds away. "HAL" is in reference to the maniac computer in the movie 2001 : A Space Odyssey. 😂 I hope you enjoyed your stay in Paris! Greetings from the city of lights (19th district).

Châtelet Les Halles, la plus grande gare souterraine d'Europe voire du monde. Je crois qu'il y a au moins 2 ascenseurs.👍

Hello- Matt- Omg- useful , be well!

And that’s how you later find out you caught hep-c…so many tourists don’t read warnings about the animals there and they don’t know monkeys mostly have Hepatitis…you get spit in an open wound or they smear their spit or pee or PO on you and you rub your eyes or mouth then that’s how you contract that disease…and that’s a life long life changing disease…I’m not sure if they have AIDS but I heard that’s mostly in Chimps

Awesome video Matt, thanks for sharing.

Matt this is great! I have Neuro Myelitis Optica, or NMO and transverse myelitis. I’m blind in my left eye and have been impacted in many other ways. I struggle with high functioning abilities but with major limits. It was great to see you again at the Greek Fest tonight! Hope to see you around again. Marie

I love Santa Fe! Those Frito pies are awesome.

Grato ao canal pelas belas imagens!!!! abraços BRASIL

Great video and photography. Thanks 🙏‼️‼️

Cool, old steam train with passengers..👍

That is the longest, most technical wheelie i have ever seen.... so inspiring, well done it was amazing

Monkeys really love eating bananas OMG careful that one bites haha nice video keep safe

T7-complete. Injuries at 41 skiing. Awesome dude!! Tho use trails are off my list now but I do as much adventures as possible. Protect those shoulders!! Hey none of my business but wearing gloves is a good thing. Roll on!!

I love you Brady! You're the king stud duck!

Awesome work Matt! A great message that needs to be heard.

Your the best

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respect

Working hard man ..something we all should admire

Get a self propelled bro it should pull u maybe

I'm obviously late but this really opened my eyes and inspired me to want to study abroad. Thank you for this.

stupid people carry a good size stick to whoop the shit out of them if they try to bite they have to much trust in those ugly rats

We are strange creatures. We stand upright and make eye contact and bare our teeth to convey friendliness, whereas in almost all other animal species, such things constitute threatening body language. This is why wild animals attack us. We just walk around inadvertently threatening everything all the time.

That "yawn" was a threat, and in response to that, she sat next to him and challenged him by staring him down.

You should have asked those two girls to carry your chair up :)

Zerg, license was for class of 200 km/hr, 350 above is not. Otherwise they wont be able to promote and try selling their product overseas.

I have a Quickie with standard wheels. Still learning to do wheelies. Are your wheels the 'mountain-bike' type?

Nice park !!! I love it thanks

That is not practical for many, You do great