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Madeleine (Paris Metro)
Madeleine () is a station on lines 8, 12 and 14 of the Paris Métro in central Paris and the 8th arrondissement. Location The station is located under the Place de la Madeleine, the platforms being positioned: * on line 8, east of the square and oriented approximately east-west, along the axis of Boulevard de la Madeleine (between Concorde and Opéra stations)); * on line 12, also east of the square and oriented approximately north-south, curved along the axis of the side carriageway of the said square on the one hand, and Rue Tronchet on the other hand, (between Saint-Lazare and Concorde); * on line 14, northeast of the square and oriented approximately northwest/southeast, along the axis of Rue de Sèze (between Saint-Lazare and Pyramides). History The station was opened on 5 November 1910 as part of the original section of the Nord-Sud Company's line A between Porte de Versailles and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.It is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine, which was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Métro
The Paris Métro (french: Métro de Paris ; short for Métropolitain ) is a rapid transit system in the Paris metropolitan area, France. A symbol of the Paris, city, it is known for its density within the capital's territorial limits, uniform architecture and Paris Métro entrances by Hector Guimard, unique entrances influenced by Art Nouveau. It is mostly underground and long. It has 308 stations, of which 64 have transfers between lines. The Montmartre funicular is considered to be part of the metro system, within which is represented by a 303rd fictive station "Funiculaire". There are 16 lines (with an additional four Grand Paris Express, under construction), numbered 1 to 14, with two lines, Paris Métro Line 3bis, 3bis and Paris Métro Line 7bis, 7bis, named because they started out as branches of Paris Métro Line 3, Line 3 and Paris Métro Line 7, Line 7 respectively. Paris Métro Line 1, Line 1 and Paris Métro Line 14, Line 14 are List of automated train systems, automat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Lazare (Paris Métro)
Saint-Lazare () is a station on Line 3, Line 12, Line 13 and Line 14 of the Paris Métro. Line 9 also stops at Saint Augustin and RER E stops at Haussmann Saint Lazare. A tunnel connects both of these stations. Located on the border of the 8th and 9th arrondissements, it is the second busiest station of the Métro system after Gare du Nord with 39 million passengers annually. The station offers connections to the following other stations: Gare Saint-Lazare (SNCF), Haussmann–Saint-Lazare on RER E, Havre – Caumartin on Line 3 and Line 9, in addition to Saint-Augustin on Line 9. The station is named after the mainline railway station, which is situated in Rue Saint-Lazare. It is in the commercial centre of Paris, near the major department stores. Location The station is located near the Paris-Saint-Lazare station, the platforms being established: * on line 3 (between Europe and Havre - Caumartin stations), under the Cour de Rome, along the northeast / southeast a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydrogen Sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide is a chemical compound with the formula . It is a colorless chalcogen-hydride gas, and is poisonous, corrosive, and flammable, with trace amounts in ambient atmosphere having a characteristic foul odor of rotten eggs. The underground mine gas term for foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide-rich gas mixtures is ''stinkdamp''. Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele is credited with having discovered the chemical composition of purified hydrogen sulfide in 1777. The British English spelling of this compound is hydrogen sulphide, a spelling no longer recommended by the Royal Society of Chemistry or the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Hydrogen sulfide is toxic to humans and most other animals by inhibiting cellular respiration in a manner similar to hydrogen cyanide. When it is inhaled or it or its salts are ingested in high amounts, damage to organs occurs rapidly with symptoms ranging from breathing difficulties to convulsions and death. Despite this, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Kohn
Bernard Kohn (born 1931) is a French-American architect, educator and urban planner. Personal life Kohn was born to a Jewish family. His parents immigrated from France to the United States in 1940s due to the impending threat of Nazi invasion. After moving, he studied at Syracuse University, Columbia University, and at the University of Pennsylvania under the tutelage of Louis Kahn. Work Kohn taught at the Urbanism Department of Yale University and is associated with the New Urbanism movement. He worked in the United States and in India after being inspired by Sir Patrick Geddes Sir Patrick Geddes (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a British biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning ... before returning to France in 1969, where he worked at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as a pedagogy consultant. Together with sociologist Michel Herro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parisine
Parisine is a typeface created by Jean-François Porchez. Distributed by Typofonderie. It is used in Paris Métro, tramways, buses and RER parts operated by the RATP Group in Île-de-France. Starting in 2015, the Osaka City Subway in Japan adopted Parisine as the Latin-character component of its new signage system, which is gradually being introduced throughout its network. Parisine It was originally developed in 1996 as a custom typeface in Bold and Bold Italic developed for the RATP to improve signage legibility and space economy. The design was based on the proportions of Helvetica Bold, condensed at 90%. In 1999, the font was extended to a font family for multiple uses like communication material, maps, etc. In 2000, hinted TrueType versions were added for internal corporate use. The name Parisine is a trademark of the RATP. Parisine Std It is an OpenType variant of Parisine. A small caps version was produced called Parisine SC, see Parisine PRO for Small Caps. OpenTy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyramides (Paris Métro)
Pyramides () is a station on Line 7 and Line 14 of the Paris Métro. Location The Pyramides metro station is located halfway between the Palais Garnier and the Comédie-Française theatre. It thus completes, with the ''Opéra'' and ''Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre'' metro stations, passing under Avenue de l'Opéra and under which passes the tunnel of line 7. History The station was opened on 1 July 1916 during the extension of line 7 from Opéra to Palais-Royal. Due to the shortage of earthenware linked to the First World War, the station was temporarily equipped with a simple masonry coating. In the 1990s, the secondary station became a transfer station as part of the Line 14 project. A new connection hall was set up on the south side, above the tracks of line 7. The station for line 14 opened with the rest of the line on 15 October 1998. It is named after the Rue des Pyramides, which commemorates the victory in 1798 of Napoleon's Armée d'Orient over the Mamluks of Murad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympiades (Paris Métro)
Olympiades () is the southern terminus of Line 14 of the Paris Métro. The station was formally inaugurated on 15 June 2007 in the presence of the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë. It was opened to the general public at just before 5:30 a.m. on 26 June 2007. It takes its name from the area of high-rise residential tower blocks known as in the heart of Paris's 13th arrondissement, to the east of the station Tolbiac, a quarter of Paris that was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairie De Saint-Ouen (Paris Métro)
Mairie de Saint-Ouen () is a station on Paris Métro line 13, line 13 & Paris Métro Line 14, line 14 of the Paris Métro in the Communes of France, commune of Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen. It is named after the nearby town hall of Saint-Ouen. Location Line 13 station is located under Place de la République, at the intersection of Avenue Gabriel-Péri, Boulevard Victor-Hugo and Boulevard Jean-Jaurès. That of line 14 is located slightly further north, at the intersection of Boulevard Jean-Jaurès, Rue du Docteur-Bauer and Rue Albert-Dhalenne. The line 13 tunnel is located parallel to and above that of line 14. A short connecting corridor connects the latter's station to the platform of line 13 in the direction of Châtillon. History The station opened on 30 June 1952 when line 13 was extended from Porte de Saint-Ouen (Paris Métro), Porte de Saint-Ouen to Carrefour Pleyel (Paris Métro), Carrefour Pleyel. In 2019, according to RATP estimates, the station's annual us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platform Screen Doors
Platform screen doors (PSDs), also known as platform edge doors (PEDs), are used at some train, rapid transit and people mover stations to separate the platform from train tracks, as well as on some bus rapid transit, tram and light rail systems. Primarily used for passenger safety, they are a relatively new addition to many metro systems around the world, some having been retrofitted to established systems. They are widely used in newer Asian and European metro systems, and Latin American bus rapid transit systems. History The idea for platform edge doors dates as early as 1908, when Charles S. Shute of Boston was granted a patent for "Safety fence and gate for railway-platforms". The invention consisted of "a fence for railway platform edges", composed of a series of pickets bolted to the platform edge, and vertically movable pickets that could retract into a platform edge when there was a train in the station. In 1917, Carl Albert West was granted a patent for "Gate for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairie D'Aubervilliers (Paris Métro)
Mairie d'Aubervilliers () is the northern terminus of the line 12 of the Paris Métro. The station is located near Aubervilliers Aubervilliers () is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Albertivillariens'' or ''Albertivillariennes''. Geography Localisati ... town hall and opened on 31 May 2022. In the future, it will be served by line 15 as part of the Grand Paris Express Project.. Gallery File:Accès Station Métro Mairie Aubervilliers Avenue Victor Hugo - Aubervilliers (FR93) - 2022-06-01 - 8.jpg, alt=, Entrance along avenue Victor Hugo File:Station Métro Mairie Aubervilliers - Aubervilliers (FR93) - 2022-06-01 - 2.jpg, alt=, Concourse File:Paris Metro Mairie Aubervilliers Inside.jpg References Paris Métro line 12 Paris Métro line 15 Paris Métro stations in Aubervilliers Railway stations in France opened in 2022 Paris Métro stations lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairie D'Issy (Paris Métro)
Mairie d'Issy () is the southern terminus of Line 12 of the Paris Métro in the commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux. It is named after and located near the town hall; shops located on the Avenue Victor Cresson and Avenue de la République are served by the station. It was opened on 24 March 1934 as part of the extension of the line from Porte de Versailles. Station layout Gallery File:Metro - Paris - Ligne 12 - Mairie d Issy.jpg, Line 12 platforms at Mairie d'Issy File:Paris metro - Mairie d'Issy - 2.JPG, MF 67 The MF 67 is a fleet of steel-wheel electric multiple unit trains for the Paris Métro. The first MF 67 trains entered service on Line 3 in June 1968, and became one of the biggest orders for the Métro, with 1,482 cars constructed. The ne ... rolling stock on Line 12 at Mairie d'Issy References *Roland, Gérard (2003). ''Stations de métro. D’Abbesses à Wagram.'' Éditions Bonneton. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mairie d'Issy (Paris Metro) Paris Métro stations in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pointe Du Lac (Paris Métro)
Pointe du Lac () is a station on line 8 of the Paris Métro in the commune of Créteil. It is the eastern terminus of the line and is elevated. History It opened on 8 October 2011 after a 1.3 km extension from Créteil–Préfecture, with construction having started in 2007. It is the easternmost and southernmost station on the Paris Métro system (not including stations on RER lines). It is situated to the southeast of Lac de Créteil. In 2019, the station was used by 2,849,288 passengers making it the 186th busiest of the Métro network, out of 302 stations. In 2020, the station was used by 1,684,557 passengers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the 150th busiest of the Métro network, out of 305 stations. Passenger services Access The station has a single entrance along a bus-only lane. Station layout Platforms Pointe du Lac is an elevated station with a particular arrangement specific to the stations serving or had served as a terminus. It has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
