Friday, November 18, 2005

The city down under


About 105 years after the first Paris Métro line (still in service and still called Line 1) the network has grown tremendously. According to various sources there are about 300 Métro stops (stations), separated on average by 543 meters (the longest distance between two stations - Bobigny-Pantin-Raymond/Queneau-Bobigny-Pablo Picasso - amounts to 2385 meters!). Due to the huge number of people travelling by metro everyday in Paris (about 1, 4 million) it has become a real underground city with shops, little cafés, vending machines…

17 comments:

  1. love the métro, can't wait to take it myself - in 3 weeks today i'll be in Paris! doing so!!

    j'adore le métro, j'ai hâte de le prendre - en trois semaines je serai à Paris! prenant le métro!

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  2. Brrr ! On se sent un peu en haut des Montagnes Russes !

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  3. I used to love the Métro a lot more than I do now, but I don't actually hate it. Some stations are very neat (and you have shown us some, the Arts & Métiers one just a few days ago!

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  4. Où sont-ils donc mes bons vieux Sprague, leurs bancs de bois, leurs portes aux dessins Art Déco, aux loquets qui retombaient lourdement en claquant à la fermeture ? Où sont-ils donc mes tunnels à l'odeur de brûlé incomparable, leurs affiches Dubo-Dubon-Dubonnet ? Où sont-elles passées, les tirettes à friandises, impossibles à ouvrir et où l'on enfonçait toujours en vain nos pièces de monnaie ? Et cet horrible portillon métallique qui nous interdisait l'accès au quai quand arrivait la rame de métro ? Ils sont au pays des souvenirs hélas, au pays des gens aimés et disparus, au pays des photos en noir et blanc, mais un pays qui fait chaud au cœur quand on pense à lui.

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  5. I love the sound of a Metro train leaving a station...like a whirring roar, escalating in pitch. Love it

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  6. Super, gg! Il ne manque plus que le poinçonneur!

    Avez vous lu Delerme? Il parle du meme Paris nostalgique ...

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  7. I just want to say thank you so much for your great great photos of Paris everyday...I have you saved and linked to my blog and have an obsession to one day visit, maybe live in Paris!! And take a million photographs! Anyway, thanks! I love your site!

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  8. Merci, Eric, pour les photos! Elles me fait souvenir les mois brefs que j'habitais Paris dans 1980-81. Je me suis tombee aujourd'hui sur votre blog, et je reviens souvent. Je ne me rappelle pas un station de Metro nomme pour Raymond Queneau. Il me plait beaucoup. C'est dans quelle arrondissement? Oserais-je vous demander une photo? En plus, merci, gg, pour les mots beaux mais tristes. Et pardon, s'il vous plait, si j'ai fait des fautes--ces jours je ne parle ni ecrire assez le francais...

    Respectueusement,

    Kelly

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  9. Thank you Scarlett et Kelly. Kelly, êtes-vous sure pour la station de métro Raymond Queneau ?? Ca ne me dit rien du tout.

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  15. Really nice to go through back months on PDP!


    We were supposed to leave yesterday. Finally not. I prefer staying here even stuck. Obviously, I am clearly encouraged to sleep on the sofa. Blame it on me.

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