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On your next Rail Europe purchase
You can buy individual Métro tickets or packets of 10 tickets (a Carnet).
The per ticket cost of the Carnet is less, not surprisingly.
If you're in town for a while, consider getting the "Carte Orange" or "Ticket hebdomadaire" which is valid from Monday, through Sunday.
(Note: you will need a small photo for this sort of pass.)
Cost of Métro & RER tickets depends on distance traveled. Within central Paris cost
is the same as Métro tickets, and the same ticket is also valid on both systems.
Both the Métro and the RER (Réseau Express Régional) are run by the RATP -
Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens.
The RATP also runs the buses.
A Bit of History
The Métro opened on 19 July 1900, its first line being from
Porte de Vincennes to Porte Maillot (not surprising it is now the line number 1).
Fulgence Bienvenüe was the engineer in charge of construction, the
architect Hector Guimard being responsible for the Art Nouveau entrances
(see image).
The system has 199 km (124 miles) of track and 15 lines.
There are 368 stations (not including RER stations), 87 of these being interchanges
between lines.
Every building is within 500 metres of a métro station.
There are 3500 cars which transport roughly 6 million people per day.
There are 15000 employees of the métro.
An example of one of the Art Nouveau métro
entrances designed by Hector Guimard between 1898-1904: Abbesses in the 18th arrondissement.
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