The Grand Paris Express is a once-in-a-century megaproject.
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0:00 Intro
1:05 Connecting Paris
3:01 Building Under a City
5:45 Trimble
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49 Comments
Something needs to be adressed there : the political landscape of Paris is a mess. The City is ruled by the Left, the western cities are ruled by the Right, the eastern cities by the Far-Left and the region as a whole by the Right. They all hate each other, and all hate the government, which still has a say in things happening around Paris. So while Paris as a city has great ambitions as you said at the end, those are still only projects and could change at a whim depending on who gets the City and the Region in the next elections
Rotterdam has done well over the past twenty years, but now they no longer want to grow the metro network. Such a pity. They had realistic plans and plenty of space and an abandoned station was even created
Like all big cities, Paris is a nightmare zone that nobody should ever visit. Rural small village France is great though. Also the various wealthy enclaves that French elites visit like Antibes, Monaco, etc. Provence generally but not Nice or Marseille. Cities are where the wealthy farm the masses.
But why bother when the muslims will take over and let it turn to crap!
big W for paris
nice job my friend,thanks,Curitiba
paris a city totally destroyed by mass migrations of people that will never assimilate and the chance of getting attacked by them is huge
aah and of course the climate hoax.
It looks really cool on the B1M video. It does not show the reality of what life in Paris has become though (not the point of the video anyway). I mean to say the reality is not as cool as the tech highlighted in the video suggests. Hmmm…don't go to Paris to watch the olympic games. Watch it from your home, in your country, and thank me later. It's just safer. Paris is a SH.
Double the speed… To 60km/hr. That is not nearly enough and is certainly a fail for metro
Pas mal non? C'est français
Oh my godthank you for using footage of Pride on your "city of change" line !!! ❤❤
The video is very optimistic !
the work is far from finished and many line extensions have been scaled back because the costs are enormous
Looked like new Moscow Big Circle line (71km length too)
and still no high speed train in California xD
that city stinks — everyone that goes there says so — it reeks like and open sewer
Besides there are a lot more than 7 millions inhabitants in Paris metropolis: they were about 11 million in the urban area and more than 13 million in the metropolitan area in 2021.
I was in Paris last week and besides the fascinating architecture you get to see, the metro fascinated me the most! It's incredibly efficient, comfortable to travel with and not even expensive! I wish we had this where i live😅
HELL YEAH!
Why additional subway tunnels?
All districts become 15-minute districts.
Own transportation will not be allowed
And getting out is under strict supervision and enforcement
NWO open air prisons….
It's costing us a fortune. The country is heavily in debt. The city of Paris is heavily in debt…
You seem to love our city even more than we do. 😁
Thx !👍
And how is Crossrail 2 progressing? 🤔🙄😖
Paris augmente la taille des transports car ceux ci ne sont jamais a l heure et rencontrent souvent des "difficultés techniques". On supprime au fur et a mesure les voitures de Paris pour ne laisser la place bientôt qu aux voitures électriques et piétons. Cette Capitale est constamment en travaux et le sera toujours. Des embouteillages interminables.. que du bonheur
Judging by the stink of urine in the Metro, Paris just needs more space for Parisians to pee in.
0:05 'a project once in a century' … lol. Make that at least twice in a century… The bl@@dy russians had a similar project with the Moscow Central Circle metro Line (54km). Since 2000 the Moscow Metro network saw an expansion of some 200 km and 78 new stations !
76km is a lot of extra ground to cover but I'm confident that my dudes can ensure every station still smells like pee in time for the 2030 completion date.
Lets hope it doesn't double like the UK Govt controlled Projects
Hello, as a parisian (born and raised) i am all for this project and i appreciate the video. But i feel that it was more a presentation of the political presentation. Those beautifull images at the end were cgi, there is no way they are going from 9,5% to 30% in 5 years now. And since they are not going to open for rhe games money and political incentive will diminishe imho.
So an overview of the actial advancements of the project would be a nice follow up.
Keep up good work
Ps : i will admit that they did a really good job over last 15 years to reduce place for car and give way to bicycles and pedestrians.
Paris being Paris.
Yet the "cars are bad, remove" its silly. What you need to do planning a massive infraestructure like this one Is get the good on rail transportarion, make strategic stations where carriers pick the goods and move them only a few hundreds of meters away or 1-2kms.
Then, you got it solved. Cars are not the issue BUT lorries and Amazon trucks, deliveries and taxis
SORRY PARIS IS KABOUL NOW. AND SHIT RAPE MURDER IS HORRIBLE IS DANGEROUS
Someone should send this to Sadiq Khan the mayor of London with the following message : "mate, stop sitting on your hands and bull your way with the superloop … Better build a subway system south of Thames … Which you said " is home" for you".
Population replacement . All the peons need a way to work when we outlaw cars
I believe Paris has way more than 7,2M residents
Unfortunately people from the banlieue (suburbs , outskirts of Paris) are too much car brained even when they are poor
so cool to see what can happen in a developed country. here in the US, nothing like this would ever happen
2024 Olympics. Los Angeles is expanding metro for 2028 Olympic too.
France doing the homework and preparing itself for the future ❤
Meanwhile San Francisco can’t even extend MUNI or BART smh
Beijing metro 879 km long
Shanghai metro 896 km long
Next year they both gonna touch 1000 km
Grand paris express not impress me
Finally a sensible project. Not some oil money small peepee compensation in the desert
As a Frenchman, I'm a little sick of this so called revolution culture of ours.
It means the French want everything to be done overnight, then they would be free from any serious commitment for another 100 years.
This is naive, unrealistic and worse, kinda lazy, thus selfish.
But yeah, this tremendous project is an outrageous blessing we're getting here.
I live in Maisons-Alfort, a suburb south of the inner city that's to be served by line 15, that will be effectively operated as of 2026 at the latest.
We're already seeing some change around here. In spite of the currently bad real-estate market, there are residential buildings under construction all over the area, that's to improve it.
And hopefully, that's only the beginning. Finally the suburbs get something significant that might help them catch up on the prestige of Central Paris.
This is something major, possibly priceless to us in the suburbs, some of them badly impoverished.
paris is serving its suburbs very well! the problem is the connection INBETWEEN the suburbs. thats the whole thing. I think you explained this quite badly tbh
I left Paris for Amsterdam 5 years ago, and appreciate the much better biking infrastructure and much calmer environment here, but it's really nice to see Paris improving in the mean time, i might move back more easily than i though 😆. (the scale of the city is really not the same though, it's clearly not easy to reach the same quality of life at Paris's size and population density).
Its great, but that overground metro structures sill look ugly in a while.
It's curious to headline about the doubling of the Paris metro network when not a single new metro station will be found in Paris.
Paris 🎉
7,2 millions is the population of Petite Couronne. Greater Paris has approximately 12millions. These infrastructures will be for the entire greater Paris area not just the city and the inner suburb.
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