Paris Métro: From the 1900 World's Fair to the Grand Paris Express, 1900 → 2031 | Animated Map

From a single line opened for the 1900 World's Fair to 16 lines and more than 300 stations: watch every line of the Paris Métro open, extend, merge and cross the city limits, year by year, on a real geographic map. Then the Grand Paris Express takes over: Lines 15, 16, 17 and 18, under construction around the city, with their target opening dates up to 2031. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:13 1900 – Line 1 opens for the World's Fair 0:45 1903 – The Couronnes fire 1:35 1908 – Line 4 and the first tunnel under the Seine 2:00 1910 – The Great Flood 2:10 1910 – The rival Nord-Sud company 2:54 1914 – War: Berlin becomes Liège 3:49 1930 – Nord-Sud becomes Lines 12 and 13 4:22 1934 – The metro leaves the city 5:09 1939 – War and closed stations 5:36 1949 – The RATP and rubber tyres 6:58 1977 – RER under Châtelet – Les Halles 7:57 1998 – Line 14, the first driverless line 8:57 2024 – Line 14 to Orly and the Olympic Games 9:15 2026 – Grand Paris Express: Lines 15, 16, 17 and 18 Dashed: under construction; opening dates after 2025 are official targets and may slip. The kilometre counter measures route length on the map, without double counting shared track. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Dates: Wikipedia (List of stations of the Paris Métro and line articles), Wikidata Music: "Wholesome", "Lightless Dawn" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) #paris #parismetro #metro #subway #transitmap