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RATP renovates its stations

The RATP has undertaken a major metro renovation programme, which aims to modernise 273 stations while showing off the network's heritage to its best advantage.

With new tiling, brighter, more functional spaces and new signage, this project will improve the information provided to customers and take into account new environmental standards. Surveys show that customers approve of the programme, which allies modernity with a desire to make the most of the historic assets of our network. The total cost of the works, which will go on until 2016, is €450 million, which will come exclusively from RATP funds.

 

This video presents the action being carried out by RATP group in 273 Paris metro stations until the year 2016. They include clearer and more legible signposting and notices, better lighting and renovated tiling.

The metro gets a facelift

As it works towards creating the metro of the future, RATP recognises that the preservation and sustainability of its hundred-year heritage are closely intertwined with the social transformations that are seeing people become more mobile and more accustomed to comfort. The needs of an increasingly vast, demanding and mobile clientele will be met by a metro that is more fluid, more reliable and more comfortable.

Through a combination of renovation and modernisation, the metro will stay young.

Among the priorities of this vast modernisation plan are the upgrading of rolling stock, along with the renovation of public spaces and the improvement of the services offered, in order to propel the Paris metro into the century of mobility.

Drawing on all its experience in order better to anticipate the needs of the century ahead, RATP is currently conducting the biggest renovation operation ever undertaken in the Paris metro, while preserving the network’s world-famous original character.

Designed to provide quality of service, greater fluidity and enhanced comfort for passengers and staff alike, the "Un métro plus beau" project, entirely funded by RATP, will last nearly 20 years. It will take in 273 stations, which will gradually be restored to their former glory, while also receiving a modern touch with the introduction of major technical improvements: clearer signage, better lighting, new tiling, cleaner, brighter spaces, more comfortable furniture, standardised equipment and new technologies.

The new metro will not only be resolutely more modern, but also more attractive – hence the name “Un métro plus beau”.

     

The “Un métro plus beau” project

Launched in 1990, the “Un métro plus beau” project is scheduled for completion in 2016. It concerns halls and entrances, redevelopment and platform lighting. The materials and techniques used not only provide the desired level of uniformity, but also offer specific responses to the particular needs of each station.

By mid-November 2011, RATP had partially or totally renovated 88% of the stations concerned. In some cases, these operations require stations to be partly or completely closed. A local communication plan is implemented to accompany the works.

The construction projects at Opéra (2008) and République (started in 2009) were the first to be undertaken at stations with multiple connections, the most difficult kind of project to perform without disrupting passengers’ daily lives.

The “Un metro plus beau” project:

  • 273 stations partially or totally renovated
  • 291,000 m2 of space renovated
  • €450 million invested

 

Schedule for renovation of stations until 2012:

  • Stations closed partially or completely
 STATION LINES STATION STATUS
 DATES
 Odéon Works in progressfrom 02/11/09 to 03/09/10
 Michel Ange Molitor
  Closed
 from 03/05/10 to 27/07/10
 Bastille  Works in progress
 Closed
 Closed
 from 31/05/10 to 28/06/12

 from 31/05/10 to 20/08/10

 from 26/04/11 to 22/07/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Stations remaining open

 STATION LINES STATION STATUS
 DATES
République Métro ligne 3 Métro ligne 11
  
 Nation  Works in progress du 07/09/09 au 03/12/10
 La Fourche
 Works in progress from 07/09/09 to 16/07/10
 Anvers  Works in progress from 21/09/09 to 25/06/10
 La Muette  Works in progress from 23/11/09 to 20/07/10

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