I LOVE Paris, and the metro is fantastic. As a New Yorker, it’s stunning to see how abysmal the subways are compared to the parisien metro; gross negligence of the subway’s infrastructure for decades has left it in appalling condition whereas the parisien metro has been wisely maintained over time allowing it to be able to advance technologically. The bigger conversation to that is the decision in the US back in the 1940s to push Americans to drive more rather than rely on public transport, whereas France has always remained focused on the importance of public transport, which is why it’s so much better than what we have in the US.

100YRS AGO THEY BUILT ITEMS TO LAST ... NOW WE WORK ON MINIMUMS!

As a Brit I agree with Kevin, but it doesn't take anything away from the fantastic engineering in the Metro. I went on it quite a few times back in the day. The trains & travel, & timing was great, much better than the London Underground, but I could never understand the maps :-) A fascinating video thanks Spark

1.13 minutes into the video there is a mistake in the subtitle. The Frenchmen says the bridge has a 140m range, while the subtitle says 140 km.

@TheKaiTetley

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a long bridge.

@benediktmorak4409

2 жыл бұрын

since the -subtitles - or -CC- closed captions, are - auto generated., maybe the generator could not understand the dialect.and translated it this way? the commentator speak good English, the translation is fine. but there are more -mistakes - with the french langauge. Un peu cliché, mais c' est la vie.

@benediktmorak4409

2 жыл бұрын

@ExpertCoder14 Compris. votre commentaire, assez juste.

Thanks a lot , great , the pronunciation of the annoucer is realy marvelous , and the fact that french Metru was greatly delayed by disputes between two administrations, rivalries

If this system is so fascinating and incredible then imagine the London one which is even older (first in the world) and bigger (biggest in the world)

@musiqueetmontagne

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.. It started off with steam trains with smoke boxes, the smoke being released up and out at stations.. 19th century British engineering..

@TheKaiTetley

2 жыл бұрын

Think this is impressive? This is nothing compared to Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Loop. That has multicoloured neon lights and electric taxis. 😱AMAZING!!!

@darkmatter6714

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKaiTetley 😂 Musk started with what he thought was a good idea and instead he realised someone had already done it…it’s called a train.

@ithaca4201

2 жыл бұрын

Biggest in the world???

@darkmatter6714

2 жыл бұрын

@@ithaca4201 that might have changed since China started developing but it’s definitely the first and oldest - opened in 1863!

How much of Paris-Metro runs on rubber tires, as the Montreal-Metro does?

nice

Fascinating documentary. Lots of facts that were new to me. I miss the old Sprague rolling stock (the green trains at 40:43). Those cars had character. Not like the blobs of today.

Why have the producers of this video decided to not translate "voussoirs"? A for the general public perfectly understandable English term does exist for these.

@oskarsrode2167

2 жыл бұрын

They are called tubbings in English. Guess the translators didn't know that.

Everything in France revolves and depends on Pari

@skylineXpert

2 жыл бұрын

Basicly yes, but there are more to france than just le Pari.

@zied6456

2 жыл бұрын

Paris region is called île-de-France for a reason.

The London Underground is older by about 60/70 years, they also had the first railway under the Thames opened in 1843. Not forgetting the TBM was invented by a British South African and modern machines were developed in the U.S. in the fifties....

@m.moolhuysen5456

2 жыл бұрын

This documentary acknowledges London Undergound's earlier beginnings at 8:34 I believe that the development on the TBM was much more a case of international company competition, with companies from several non English speaking countries also, like Germany and Japan, contributing with major innovation steps for TBM technology. This leapfrogging helped a lot to push the state of the tunneling art forward.

@38:00 Waggons? Are parisians cattle now?

the commentator,while good indeed, seems to be running on Duracell batteries. Seldom makes a FULL STOP between sentences. by the way, has Spark been to other Metros as well? Moscow? Beijing? to mention the other 2 -old ones -?

Just think of the body odor in those cars

@mjouwbuis

2 жыл бұрын

Even the French have heard of airflow and ventilation.

@hofmannwaves1525

2 жыл бұрын

What?

22,32,14 it's ran by Jesuits