Why Paris Is Strangely Designed 

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Now more 50 € but yes that's the idea

@@haraldlenudpilc 50€ for students, if your over 25 it's now 90€ for a service that doesn't work well since this summer🤡

Im so jealous, my bus ticket is almost double that and is not evens a tenth as efficient as Paris. I live in South Africa

Well, now it's shit. Everyday there's a new problem

@@angora6881 it's 84 not 90 + if you're employed half is paid by the company. If not you have the right to various discounts. I'm unemployed since September and it's free to me lol

Paris is an absolute dump.

yes but they need to finish them, stop the works on the streets and secure them ! Look t how the lanes are in Scandinavia !

I did it last April. It was a blast! All day biking around Paris.

i have been to paris and the cycles are the biggest problem, its a disaster for pedestrians and cars alike. Like majority of them would just bump into you

@@SJRS700 It will get better with time, most parisians didn't cycled daily their whole lifes, they will learn.

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Furthermore, given that these funds were allocated for these projects many years ago!

Yes. The project are paid by the state mainly The drivers are paid by their companies. And those companies are paid by the Ile de France region which uses tax, Navigo pass and tickets to pay them. Not by the state. So yes.

Yeah, that whole section was terrible. French are known for striking for the smallest thing so for him to argue that they are wildly underpaid and his evidence is the strikes is a terrible argument. In addition, the did another strike after the pay hike! It’s just the French way - strike as much as you can.

@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Looks like we in Britain have caught the French disease! Trains, then posties, nurses, all on strike. School teachers probably next :)

Not everyone has a employer, or a employer in Paris

@@steezy2695 Any employer (wherever he/she is) has to refund 50% of your transport in France. If you have no job, you maybe don't need to take transports every day so you should take tickets or daily passes (as weel as finding a job). Seniors get a ~50% reduction as well as students.

​@@steezy2695You can ask for support at the mission locale jeune if you're under 25 and not a student/employed, and they'll reimburse even more. I'm also highly suspecting Pole Emploi to also give some financial support there if needed.

I feel like daily users of most massive modern metro systems (not just Paris, but Moscow comes to mind) get accustomed to resting their bodies and minds during the various rides, and they restart themselves in time to catch transfers. I can't imagine that very many people grow to despise the routine, at least not even to the extent a bad urban commute where you're driving might.

@@crunchy_kvassI’ve done both in Paris, in rush hours it’s definitely less stressful to wait 5 minutes more for a train, than get stuck 5 minutes on every intersection. The only way car is less annoying, is 1. if you have a parking spot, 2. if it’s middle of night or 3. if you’re going to a suburb with bad connections.

Why would it be annoying to use all the time?

no it's not. It's fine. I was born here ,I feel like home in the metro. The only real problem is that crime is on the rise and less and less locals actually take it.

I lived in Paris. Even though the metro was great, I hated it because I had to use it every day. I guess that's the problem with big cities: you spend a lot of time wasting your life on public transport.

This will change soon !

« Soon » is 2026 😅

@@maeglow Nope RER E will be extended to Nanterre la Folie in June 2024

There's H too

@@Katfully_foody the line H is a regional train line not a RER

There's Shinjuku in Tokyo. It's pretty much a gigantic station-mall too, with a railway station on top.

Ugh Châtelet is a nightmare, I don't think I've ever gotten out at the right exit, though I have accidentally discovered many

@@KyrilPG Having gone to both, I have to say that...... its a love/hate relationship I have for those two stations. You can literally spend a day there but its a literal nightmare, too many people, easy to get lost and if you want to cross both station from the beginning to the end ( Only YOU can describe what is the beginning and what's the end cause nobody really knows) you'll need 10 good minutes 😂😂

@@lhananas8875 I've been to both too and love them both. Shinjuku's logic can be a little hard to get at first, especially when you don't speak nor read Japanese. But when you've traveled a bit it's not that complicated, there's international signage. And Chatelet les Halles is even easier to navigate since the major overhaul. The sectors are easily identified and the new silvery tiling and brighter mood lighting are great, giving a roomy and clean feeling. Maybe that's because I'm a born and raised Parisian. But my friends from across the pond also like it, they've lost their initial apprehensions once they tried it and just followed the signs. There's so much "legend" about it being a nightmare that most visitors have strong preconceived feelings well before experiencing it, so they brace for the worst or fear getting lost and don't really experience it with an open mind. I just told them it's like a rollercoaster where you shouldn't close your eyes and not resist the forces. In Chatelet just follow the signs and go with the flow : it's gonna be much easier than you thought. And they liked it for the energy and ant farm feeling. The one that can be a bit more confusing is the humongous Haussmann Saint Lazare - Auber - Opera (+ Saint Augustin & Havre Caumartin) underground complex, with 3 different stops on the same line M3 and 2 stops on M9 serving different parts of the complex. But it's quite fun and amazing to experience from end to end. Especially when simply stopping and watching the flow of people on the Auber RER mezzanine. The one that I really don't like for some reason is the Montparnasse complex : long connecting tunnels and weird layout but lacking the energy and quirkiness of Chatelet les Halles and HSL Auber Opera.

i agree as someone who use the same line you have to go to the nearest big exchange point to go somewhere you want which is nation that is RER and metro station

the other branch on the east side works well too (because it's RATP managed, and the poissy/cergy branch -not st germain- are managed by the SNCF)

@avia994 maybe it does but each time I see a "traffic perturbé" on citymapper or bonjour ratp its almost always the western branches 😅

Or you could go to Vincennes and walk to the metro line 1

no one cares

And although the ICE goes to Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est, that's a German train station in the video. 😁

Agreed, the driver's (whom pay I remind are payed 65,000+ a year) keep whinging and going on strike, this has led to a neglect in funding for the actual stations/experience and the foundational staff.

If you think Berlin is best, I assume you haven't lived in Madrid. 🤩

@@ixlnxs not yet ! Plan to visit this year

@@iwasborn8470 Madrid subway drivers are paid 34,000 euros a year... quite more than most IT engineers I know. The most usual salary in Spain is 16500 €/y

Also paris metro, rer etc. is much more cheaper than London. London train fares are redicously expensive. I was once quoted 60 quid on peak to go from reading to paddington. Luckly I wasn't in a rush that day I thought screw that and decided to drive and park my car in westfield shepherds bush car park where it costs 10 quid for 24 hours and tube it from there. It's a joke how expensive rail is in england

Metro line 4 is also in the process of being automated

@@orsaz924 Line 13 automation is also planned, although for the much longer term.

@@tarmil I didn't know that. Nice!

@@orsaz924 Line 4 is actually already fully automated. If you count the 2 CDG airport shuttles and the Orly airport shuttles, that actually makes 6 fully automated GoA4 lines. With the Grand Paris Express 4 new metro lines, that should make 10 by 2026.

A true parisian must be grumpy otherwise you get fined.

I used to live between place de Clichy and place Blanche, so it was either line 2 or 13 for me. I think I took line 13 three times? That was enough for me to consider early retirement haha

@@Difdauf ahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

Line 13 = cultural enrichment not any real Parisian ffs 😑

@@zxszert573hg46 nothing against the people on the line 13, on the xontrary! It's just that it's way too busy! It's also terrible for those living outside the city limits who have to travel on line 13 on a daily basis. Thankfully the network is being expanded northward to make the commute easier for those who rely on line 13.

Most American cities do suck at public transport. I've found Chicago and the northern East Coast to have the best systems. It's not necessarily that Paris is light years ahead, it's more that the US is light years behind every other major city in the world.

Im proud to say that I am Parisian and I don’t need a car at all !

I’d love to see that. As a french, I have great admiration for the Spaniards, what they did with their cities, transit and rail. Cheers

Seine has a different pronunciation too 😂

The "president" is piggy backing on previous ongoing projects in other cities, which started without his help and without waiting for him. They are a simple mirror of the German S-Bahns.

@@LaT00pe 🙄... I'd like to know more. What are your sources?

I hope this is true, it’s about time that France starts to focus on cities that aren’t Paris

@@_bearcat regions started working on it since 2014 thanks to the MAPTAM law. First results can be seen in Nantes (tram-train) or Bordeaux (official launch in 2018), and smaller results in Hauts-de-France (TERGV), ARA (unique ticketing system), Centre (capacity augmentation between Blois and Tours), and before COVID the Thello service on the line Marseille-Toulon-Nice for PACA.

@@justsamoo3480 It's actually a project in many metropolis, but many rail hubs are really saturated so a RER is sometimes impossible before extending capacity by improving the signalling (which is currently being implemented) and making new tracks. In Toulouse, a RER will be impossible before the first phases works for the HSR (= LGV) which will consist in extending the width from 2 to 4 tracks north of Toulouse to Saint-Jory and the actual HSR (by 2028) which will free some capacity on the classic line for more regional and freight trains. But projects of RERs are a thing since many decades. Macron only said this to take advantage of the Strasbourg RER which opened some days after his speech and was obviously planned way before he was president.

Got a new joke yet?

@@khalil1653 Nope

Niger was in paris

My favorite german boy

I take it everyday and I don't find it that awful, except when there is a problem, then it becomes a nightmare I agree because so many people use it and they all have to find alternative.

Exactly. Try getting around on public transit in cities of a comparable size like Rio de Janeiro (3 metro lines, "kind of" 3 light rail/tram lines and many, many buses) or LA (2 metro lines, 5 light rail lines and many, many buses) and you'll be very happy with the Paris system with all its issues and problems...

Lines equipped with tyres tend to compensate their frequent stops with strong acceleration and braking, that helps a lot. And the thrill ride is part of the charm ! 🤣

That's why the Paris metro is complemented with the RER network that allows crossing the city with much fewer stops (on average one every 2km). Any large and dense city would ultimately require such a double-scale network. That is the case in NYC, Tokyo, Berlin or Paris.

I would love to know what you mean by that, what is it?

@@orfeasdroop2733 if you know, you know :)

There is definitely a Paris metro driver recruitment issue as frequency has become lower. Outsider will tell you that 4 minutes waiting for a train is good, but considering most trains are only 75m long, they fill up very fastly, therefore you need higher frequency if you want them to not get jammed. The other problem is that in order to make the city inaccessible for cars, they clogged all surfaces traffic, including bus, taxis, delivery trucks, professional vans, motorbikes, bikes, etc. This has deteriorated trafic flows and increased the number of metro users in the same time, leading to a harder experience to move around the city. Rather than clogging surfaces traffic the way they did, they should have instead totally banned private cars from the center and make it so other trafic could flows smoothly.

Yes

The Budapest Metro 1 was opened in 1896, 4 years before the Paris one. Of course, we like to skip over the fact that the second line opened more than 70 years later ;-)

reason why you talk to the ticket vendor who guard the gates they will give you the best options according to your need

@@isegard2957 that's awesome, although not really helpful when you're trying to assess how much money you need before travelling to France :D

@@Lillireify depend how long you planing to stay. I would suggest buying weekly pass which cost like 20 euros each week

Did you try buying tickets before going ?

@@momusufan964 nah , we where hunting to get covid test for we could fly home & seen it.

@@thegrumpydragon7601 yeah the thing is you gotta book ticket online beforehand or you can't get in. They limit the entries per day