Paris Métro Expansion 1900–2031: Every Line, Year by Year (Animated Map)

How the Paris Métro grew from 1900 to 2031, one opening at a time. Every segment appears in the year trains first ran on it. By 2031: 329 stations and 384 km of track across 16 lines. The longest line is Line 14 at about 28 km since its 2024 extensions; the oldest track dates from 1900. Lines are coloured by the line that runs there today. Where another line ran a section first, that section is shown in the earlier line's colour until the handover (for example, Étoile to Place d'Italie was part of Line 5 until Line 6 took it over in 1942). Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:11 1902 0:22 1904 0:33 1906 0:44 1908 0:55 1910 1:12 1913 1:37 1922 2:09 1930 2:21 1933 2:32 1935 2:54 1942 3:16 1952 3:41 1967 3:51 1971 4:19 1976 4:52 1985 5:10 1992 5:22 1998 5:33 2003 6:02 2012 6:22 2020 6:35 2024 6:46 2026 7:00 2030 7:11 2031: the full network Data • Track geometry: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL — openstreetmap.org/copyright • Station opening dates: Wikidata (CC0) and section opening dates from each line's Wikipedia history, with manual corrections where a station opened on an older railway • Urban footprint: GHS-POP R2023A, European Commission JRC (CC BY 4.0) • No narration, no AI voice. Music and sound effects are generated for this channel. #metro #subway #paris #transit #map #animation