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That's true, but in the particular case of Paris, the worst thing related to transit is there are next to no "across" lines. Say you're in some suburb and need
by vladvasiliu 5y ago
That's true, but in the particular case of Paris, the worst thing related to transit is there are next to no "across" lines. Say you're in some suburb and need to get 20 km away in another suburb, you're likely SoL. You'll have to get all the way to Paris center and then back again. Or maybe change 5 buses for an even longer journey time. I had this exact issue when I was in college, 30 km away from my parents'. 25-30 minutes car ride or 1.5 h train ride.
I'm really hopeful for the creation and extension of some metro lines, some of which will circle around Paris, helping with this suburb-to-suburb situation.
- sofixa 5y agoYour information is a tad outdated. There are a bunch of trams ( Lines 1-12 are in operation and only 3 is in Paris, and runs along its border, the rest are across different suburbs) which are being built/expanded to cover just that, and then there's the biggest infrastructure project in Europe, the Grand Paris Express, a 200km+ ( iirc) system of 4 metro lines, linking suburbs to suburbs ( like the line 15, which will be a circle line in the suburbs). Fascinating stuff, and the first stage is expected for 2024-2025, while the latest around 2030.
- vladvasiliu 5y agoThe Grand Paris Express is the project I was talking about with the new metro lines and extensions of some older ones. I will have to look at the tram situation more closely, I'm not very familiar with them, and in my mind the lines were pretty short. I see the T1 covers quite some distance though.