How to Take the Metro

Trying to decipher the map of the Metro in Paris may seem complicated at first, but after you understand the simple process to do things as simple, quick and fast is a breeze. Non vedrete l'ora di "giocarci" ancora! You will not have time to "play" again.
First you need to know a bit 'of numbers that will make you understand the magnitude of this means of transportation preferred by Parisians and tourists:

• 16 lines;
• 214 km of tracks (not all below ground level);
• 1900 the year of the inauguration of the first line;
• 300 stations;
• 4 million daily users;
• 40 km / h average speed.

You must also know that to move in there is not only the Paris Metro, but this is joined to all other means of public transport ever conducted by the RATP:

• RER (trains that pass in Paris, but linking it to the entire region);
• BUS;
• TRAM.

There are also a number of tickets and passes modalilities:

• One-way ticket without correspondence;
• Ticket +;
• Charter NAVIGATION;
• ImaginR paper.

Learned what I recommend you buy a carnet of 10 tickets Ticket + at a total price of 10 € instead of € 1.70 for single ticket (can be purchased at vending machines operated by coins or credit cards, garage sale or to present in all revenues of stations).

Know that every point in our Metro in Paris is just, then let's say you want to go see ..... la Tour Eiffel :-D e vi trovate a..... Notre Dame !!. la Tour Eiffel:-D and you are a. .... Notre Dame!. I recommend you start your private seasonal visit to the world's most famous monument from the terrace at Chaillot Palace, well, identified on your map of the tram lines (I advise you strongly to give the plant lines superimposed on the street map of the city "LIGNES ET DES PLAN des Rues "not to be misled by the closeness or distance between stations), the station closest to this finding is that TROCADERO. Now according to Notre Dame in front of you trovavrvi various choices such as petrol stations start, but with a glance that found on 'Ile de la Cité is the train CITE'. But all of the Metro is so efficient that you can see that you have to get up to 2 Trocadero dispoosizioni simple solutions to making only one change:

• take line 4 direction Porte de Clignaindourt, change at Strasbourg-Saint Denis to go on line 9 direction Pont de Sèvres;
• or take line 4 direction Porte d'Orléans, change at Montparnasse Bienvenue to go on line 6 towards Charles de Gaulle Etoile.

Your choice will be guided by three main discriminating:

• the number of stops (not very important for the choice of whether the difference is 2-5 stops);
• the number of changes to be made (important because you can lose more time just to make 2 changes that to drive the entire route);
• the exchange station (it is best to choose the station that spend less lines to avoid to walk hundreds of meters below the ground (see Chatelet, Republique, Saint-Lazare, Gare du Nord and Montparnasse Nation and ... Benvenue!).

So with this logic, you will choose the first option and you will arrive at their destination in about 15-20 minutes.

So just see which lines pass through the station of departure and which for the arrival station, and where they intersect, the point at which to exchange (average time of return is less than 10 minutes).
Most of the time make only one change or two. It's instead almost impossible to make 3 or more!

Now the practical part:

• enter the station;

• if you have used a carnet ticket per person;
• insert it into the slot in the various barriers in the basin;

• resume the ticket before crossing!;
• the turnstiles will unlock and you can go without pushing them to hesitate;
• now follow arrows that indicate the selected direction (in this case Porte de Clignaincourt);
• do not look for signs for Trocadero, you will not!;
• head to the right track and wait for the arrival of the subway;
• Do people get off before boarding!;
• look at the names of the intermediate stations;
• the penultimate station before going down (in this case, the first station of Strasbourg. Reaumur Sebastopol Saint Denis is) ready to drop;
• get off the wagon;
• Look out for the next line and direction (line 9 direction Pont de Sèvres);
• proceed following the above steps;
• remember that you must follow the direction to exit SORTIE.