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Making a Journey by Metro
To determine which Metro
1line to take, travellers should
first find their destination on
a Metro map. (Maps can be
found inside stations and Metro tickets are sold
also on the inside back cover 2at all stations. These
of this book.) Trace the Metro are equipped with
line by following the colour coin-operated automatic
coding and the number of machines. One Metro
the line. At the end of the ticket allows the bearer
line, you will see the number travel for one journey,
of the terminus – remember including any transfers on
this, as it will help you to find the Metro system, and on
the correct train. RER trains in central Paris.
Insert the train ticket
in the first slot.
Remove the ticket
from the second slot.
To enter the platform
3area, insert the Metro
ticket, with the magnetic
strip facing down, into
the first barrier slot.
Remove the ticket
from the second slot,
then walk through.
Alternatively, swipe your
Passe Navigo Découverte
over the reader in
the barrier.
At the entrance to each
To change lines, get
4station platform, and in the 7off at the appropriate
station corridors, there are transfer station
lists of upcoming stations and follow the
corresponding to a given correspondance
terminus. Terminus names are (connections) signs
also indicated on the platform on the platform
and should be checked indicating the
before boarding the train.
appropriate direction.
There is a release button
5which you press to open
the Metro doors. Before
the doors open and
close, a single tone
will sound.
Inside the trains are
6charts of the line
being served by the
train. The station The Sortie sign indicates
stops are plotted 8the way out. At all
on the chart, so Metro exits, there are
travellers can track neighbourhood maps.
their journeys.
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