Great video, reflecting on the wide build out of overall infrastructure in Paris region. The Saint-Denis Pleyel station will however open with the rest of the line 14 extension, right before the Olympics.
Nice ! I see that you did some window shopping on IDFM site's projects page. 🤣 It's a bit like a Santa's wishlist for urban mobility enthusiasts : 360+ kilometers of new metro, RER, tram, gondola and BRT lines and extensions in quite a short time (infrastructure-wise). A real transit-a-palooza ! The network's capacity increase is huge : the GPE alone is expected to get 3 million daily riders. There's also a massive rolling stock renewal campaign, with many new train types being introduced and entire fleets replaced : The very nice new MP14 trains replacing the old tyre metro equipment and hundreds of trains being delivered in the next years. The majority of historical metro lines getting new trains, RER B, D and E also receiving new train types... And historical line M4 has been converted to full driverless automation. One note though : Paris won't be the first gondola or "telecabin" system dedicated to urban transit in France. Toulouse recently opened Téléo, a 3S cable gondola system with 3 stations (if I recall correctly) and large cabins, used as urban transit and integrated into the metro / bus / tram / train fare system of Toulouse. It connects to metro line B near its current South end. Still in Toulouse, there's also a new and larger 3rd metro line being built right now. Initially called "Toulouse Aerospace Express" and dubbed by many locals as the "Airbus Express', it will run mostly underground as a kind of semicircular line with fully automated Alstom Metropolis trains, contrary to the first two existing lines A & B that use super high frequency VAL systems. It will link the city's main Airbus & aerospace industrial and office sites together and with the education or engineering centers and the existing metro. This new line will be named C (or "new line C" temporarily), as there's already a line C that is a surface train line used for short urban journeys that will be renamed. Line C's construction was recently in the French media as the city needed to displace a large and extremely heavy stone memorial monument. It took months of preparation and required special remote controlled multi-wheel equipment but only took a few dozen minutes of actual movement to be pushed out of the building site's way (and potential harm's way). Hundreds of locals came to see the kind of arch of triumph being moved. Line B is also being extended for a station or two in the South to connect with the new C line. The city of Brest in Brittany also has a cable 2-car system, used as a kind of urban transit as it serves as a port / harbor crossing link. It opened a few years ago and features 2 back-and-forth "tracks" stacked on top of each other. Lyon is studying a system like that and Bordeaux too, but the likelihood of seeing them officially launched is quite uncertain. Another French city that might interest you is Rennes. It is a rather modestly sized city but has 2 metro lines, mostly underground. Line A is a VAL and the recent line B is a NeoVAL. They move really impressive numbers of passengers everyday, more individual journeys than the population of the city proper. This system is very nice, super efficient and surprising as cities of that size rarely have a high frequency metro network. As for Paris, there are also several other proposed extensions supported by local mayors, user groups and businesses that are less known and not mentioned on IDFM site. Like the Southeastern extension of M10, to serve a new neighborhood developed where warehouses, docks and industrial sites formerly stood. The Tzen 5 BRT surely won't be enough in capacity, frequency and overall quality of service to turn this new neighbor into a true transit oriented development. To sum it up, there are some proposed / studied plans to extend all metro lines at least up to the future M15 ring line or beyond. Kudos for the video!
A very good video, different from the usual point of view. Also, be ready to make a sequal, since the Ile de France Region and the government are negotiating the budget for many years to come. The discussions are to be closed by the end of this year. And depending on the funding they will agree on, they will decide what project to launch so that they are done by the year 2040. Some leaks mentioned a new métro line, métro expansions and tram expansion. But this remain unreliable for now.
There is plans to extend line 18 to Saint-Denis Pleyel but nothing is budgeted and decided, even the Versailles Chantiers-Nanterre La Folie, which is arguable since the Transilien line U already kind of does the job...
Great video, reflecting on the wide build out of overall infrastructure in Paris region. The Saint-Denis Pleyel station will however open with the rest of the line 14 extension, right before the Olympics.
Nice !
I see that you did some window shopping on IDFM site's projects page. 🤣
It's a bit like a Santa's wishlist for urban mobility enthusiasts : 360+ kilometers of new metro, RER, tram, gondola and BRT lines and extensions in quite a short time (infrastructure-wise). A real transit-a-palooza !
The network's capacity increase is huge : the GPE alone is expected to get 3 million daily riders.
There's also a massive rolling stock renewal campaign, with many new train types being introduced and entire fleets replaced :
The very nice new MP14 trains replacing the old tyre metro equipment and hundreds of trains being delivered in the next years.
The majority of historical metro lines getting new trains, RER B, D and E also receiving new train types... And historical line M4 has been converted to full driverless automation.
One note though :
Paris won't be the first gondola or "telecabin" system dedicated to urban transit in France.
Toulouse recently opened Téléo, a 3S cable gondola system with 3 stations (if I recall correctly) and large cabins, used as urban transit and integrated into the metro / bus / tram / train fare system of Toulouse. It connects to metro line B near its current South end.
Still in Toulouse, there's also a new and larger 3rd metro line being built right now. Initially called "Toulouse Aerospace Express" and dubbed by many locals as the "Airbus Express', it will run mostly underground as a kind of semicircular line with fully automated Alstom Metropolis trains, contrary to the first two existing lines A & B that use super high frequency VAL systems.
It will link the city's main Airbus & aerospace industrial and office sites together and with the education or engineering centers and the existing metro.
This new line will be named C (or "new line C" temporarily), as there's already a line C that is a surface train line used for short urban journeys that will be renamed.
Line C's construction was recently in the French media as the city needed to displace a large and extremely heavy stone memorial monument.
It took months of preparation and required special remote controlled multi-wheel equipment but only took a few dozen minutes of actual movement to be pushed out of the building site's way (and potential harm's way). Hundreds of locals came to see the kind of arch of triumph being moved.
Line B is also being extended for a station or two in the South to connect with the new C line.
The city of Brest in Brittany also has a cable 2-car system, used as a kind of urban transit as it serves as a port / harbor crossing link. It opened a few years ago and features 2 back-and-forth "tracks" stacked on top of each other.
Lyon is studying a system like that and Bordeaux too, but the likelihood of seeing them officially launched is quite uncertain.
Another French city that might interest you is Rennes. It is a rather modestly sized city but has 2 metro lines, mostly underground. Line A is a VAL and the recent line B is a NeoVAL.
They move really impressive numbers of passengers everyday, more individual journeys than the population of the city proper.
This system is very nice, super efficient and surprising as cities of that size rarely have a high frequency metro network.
As for Paris, there are also several other proposed extensions supported by local mayors, user groups and businesses that are less known and not mentioned on IDFM site.
Like the Southeastern extension of M10, to serve a new neighborhood developed where warehouses, docks and industrial sites formerly stood.
The Tzen 5 BRT surely won't be enough in capacity, frequency and overall quality of service to turn this new neighbor into a true transit oriented development.
To sum it up, there are some proposed / studied plans to extend all metro lines at least up to the future M15 ring line or beyond.
Kudos for the video!
A very good video, different from the usual point of view.
Also, be ready to make a sequal, since the Ile de France Region and the government are negotiating the budget for many years to come. The discussions are to be closed by the end of this year. And depending on the funding they will agree on, they will decide what project to launch so that they are done by the year 2040.
Some leaks mentioned a new métro line, métro expansions and tram expansion. But this remain unreliable for now.
God I wish the US was capable of building modern large scale public transit at affordable prices
Your pronunciation of French place names are nowhere near as excruciating as the Irish ones 😂
The line 18 ewtend to nanterre la folie not Saint Denis pleyel and line 7 entend to nanterre la folie
There is plans to extend line 18 to Saint-Denis Pleyel but nothing is budgeted and decided, even the Versailles Chantiers-Nanterre La Folie, which is arguable since the Transilien line U already kind of does the job...
Its not enough tbh.