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Please don't take this as a general rule for the subway in Paris. While it is true that some lines (13 is infamous) at some hours are really packed, most of the

• bsaul 8y ago
  if you work in IT chances are you’re going to the office a bit after peak hours and coming back home late. 13 is a mess indeed but 4 is also bad , 7 has a lot of trouble, 12 has crack addicts on the dock menacing passengers, etc.. i’m also born and raised in Paris, and lived there for 40 years, but once you take the subway in other crowded cities ( honk kong, tokyo, shanghai, sf , london, etc) you realize having a subway that smells urine and shit , has technical issues every single days, and simply can’t handle the population flow at all, isn’t « normal ». We can live with it, the whole society has adapted to it, but i wouldn’t call the situation «fine».
  • louiskottmann 8y ago
    Again, I disagree here. I take the 4 all the time as it is right next to my place, without any issue. In fact I cannot even remember the last time it was packed. I also traveled and did not find other subways to be considerably better in every aspect. Subway in Japan is horribly complicated for example, with different companies operating the various lines of some major cities! London's tube is known to be overcrowded as well, and I feel like technical issues happens everywhere but in Paris the driver actually tells you what's going on. People like to romance what happens in Paris, don't be fooled, in reality it's just safe and fun in my opinion.