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Line 1 - Exhibition at the Hôtel de Ville station

For 111 years, Line 1 has reflected the ongoing evolution of the Paris metro, integrated new rolling stock, changed its furnishings, renewed its facilities... and was often the first line to benefit from the latest technology developed by RATP.

expo hotel de villeToday, for its oldest metro line, RATP is meeting the challenge of full automation, undoubtedly its greatest technical feat since the metro was first built in 1900.

Through the end of 2012, an exhibition will be held on the Line 1 platforms at the Hôtel de Ville station that traces more than a century’s worth of developments, as experienced by ten Line 1 stations. Discover numerous illustrations presenting surprising anecdotes and information about the metro.

In depicting the line’s path and its stations, the scenography evokes the automation of Line 1, which plays a central role.

In autumn 2011, the automation of Line 1 entered its final operational phase with the gradual roll out of new automatic trains. By year-end 2012, the transformation of Line 1 will be completed, after four years of construction during which the metro line remained in service.

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The exhibition can be seen through the end of 2012 on the Line 1 platforms of the Hôtel de Ville station.

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Line 1 - Improving service through automation

A project designed to meet customer needs and reflect new living patterns

Modernising the metro

After a major period of construction between 1900 and 1935, and another between 1955 and 1980, which witnessed a first wave of modernisation with the introduction of automatically controlled trains, centralised control rooms (PCCs) and a new generation of rolling stock, RATP has now entered a third phase, in which it must confront the challenges of the decades ahead.

Line 1 – A crucial artery

Line 1 is the oldest line in the metro network, and also the busiest, with 213 million passengers now using the service each year (up from 160 million in 2006).

Line 1 – a project for the future

A major urban transport challenge: turning the oldest metro line in Paris into a fully automatic line without interrupting its traffic.

Line 1 - Exhibition at the Hôtel de Ville station

For 111 years, Line 1 has reflected the ongoing evolution of the Paris metro, integrated new rolling stock, changed its furnishings, renewed its facilities... and was often the first line to benefit from the latest technology developed by RATP.

Line 13 – a priority

Line 13 is a priority for RATP. It is one of the busiest lines on the metro, with 600,000 passengers each day.

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