PARIS 2030 : The €44BN Plan to make the City Greener

I haven't been to Paris since 2014. I'd love to see it again, especially after these upgrades. Love from America 🇺🇸

Great video with fantastic views! And quite exhaustive too.

By the way, where did you find the footage of the M18's rolling stock shown at 7:55 ? I've never been able to find any real images of these trains yet. Only MR6V for M15.
So I'm ecstatic seeing these for the first time!

Just a little correction : the Grand Paris Express is not "extremely late" as following the events and world pandemonium of 2020, the government and Grand Paris authority (SGP) issued a new timeline, focusing on different deliveries first and better scheduling instead of rushing construction on the parts useful to the Olympics and delaying other parts.

So, said parts of M16/M17 are rescheduled for delivery after the Olympics and right now the developments are on schedule.
With M11 & M14's extensions set to open in spring 2024 as planned. (M11's extension is only a few months late and they decided against rushing it).
RER E West is expected to open its first phase around the same time, including Porte Maillot and La Défense CNIT stations, possibly also Nanterre la Folie but that is to be confirmed.
The rest of the extension to Mantes la Jolie will open later.

M15's South section is set to open in Q4 2025, as it was planned in the new post-pandemic calendar. And phase 1 of M16/M17 in autumn 2026.
On the other hand the new schedule brought forward other parts, like the central section of M18, now set to open in 2026, earlier than originally planned, and the rest of M16 plus the second phase of M17 in 2028.
The recent announcement of a major milestone confirms this new calendar : over 100 kilometers of tunnels have been dug so far on the GPE, out of about 180km in tunnels.
The SGP also announced on September 3rd 2023 that more than half of M17's path has already been built.
15km of tunnels built, out of a 26.5km route ; 11.5km to go, of which 5.5km are either running on the surface or elevated, so only 6km of tunnels remain to be built on M17.

That's 15km of continuous tunnels from Saint-Denis to Gonesse, far beyond the point that was of use for the Olympics.
The Verdun and Roland shafts plus the tunnels linking them and forming the branching between M16 & M17 were completed in November 2022.

While in July 2023, there were only 650 meters left to dig on M18's Eastern underground section (between Orly and Palaiseau where the line transitions to elevated tracks). It should be finished digging very soon, if it hasn't already.

The main delays not due to the pandemic mess were caused by the terrible soil in Paris underground, namely the North extension of M12 (not part of GPE) and a small part of M14 Northern extension, as they required the ground to be hard frozen with cold generation factories and extensive circuit piping.
A section on M14's North extension even suffered a flood that delayed construction, due to thiese terrible soil conditions.

If the calendar had not been reorganized, the M16/M17 section planned for the Olympics would have been delivered only a few months after the event, which is only a mild delay.
Instead, they are now expecting a much larger section to be delivered ahead of the previous schedule for such section.

The main heavy duty building works left to do are M15's Western and Eastern sections. They are expected to start building and digging soon.

As of October 2023:
100km dug, 27 TBM's have finished digging, only 2 TBM's still digging and nearly 65km of double track are already laid. The second phase of massive simultaneous digging is expected to start in 2024.

I couldn't be more excited and eager about all this! The whole undertaking is so interesting.

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Making a city greener = removing the cars.
Use all the road space to create a park for people.
Done.
Of course removing the cars leads to the need of having great public transport, also goods need to be transported to reach the inner city. Whether such is possible on the soil of Paris, I don't know.
Digging tunnels under an existing city requires firm soil that can carry the city and have tunnels same time.

Car parks on the edge of the city, subways to the center.
A subway station within 800 meters (half a mile) of any location.
Small electric cargo trucks for logistics.

they could replace the eifel tower with a monolith while theyre at it their renovations sucks

Very happy to see the decline of American-lead car culture in Europe! European cities are meant to be walkable, bikeable and filled with rapid service transport like trolleytrams, metrotrains and even buses (if no other options can be made available). American cities are wastelands of open parking spots that bake in the hot sun and are always overfilled, expensive too.

Very well documented and explained video !