{"id":30537,"date":"2018-07-24T05:47:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=30537"},"modified":"2018-07-22T03:26:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T01:26:34","slug":"ticket-chic-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/ticket-chic-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket Chic No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From its rubber tires to its station signs and art deco entrance-ways, the Paris Metro is one of the oldest, one of the busiest, and perhaps one of the most recognized public transportation systems in the world.\u00a0In a city of so many iconic sights, it might seem strange that one of the most iconic is one that keeps you mostly underground!*<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24122\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24122\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24122\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/DSC00004-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"Metro entry\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/DSC00004-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/DSC00004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/DSC00004.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the last art deco style metro entrances in Paris.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/on-est-les-champions-renaming-le-metro-for-the-french-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last week<\/a> John told us about how the RATP, the group responsable for the M\u00e9tro, decided to honor France&#8217;s World Cup win by renaming a number of stations. In doing a little research for this week&#8217;s post, I learned that this isn&#8217;t the first time that certain stations adopted new identities. Back in 2016,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/april-fish-fous-davril\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>pour le 1er avril<\/strong><\/a> (<em>April 1st)<\/em>, the RATP updated 13 stations as well (enjoy them for yourself to the strains of Jacques Dutronc&#8217;s <em>Le petit jardin\/The little garden)<\/em>.**<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1er avril 2016 - La RATP s&#039;amuse a\u0300 changer les noms des stations du me\u0301tro parisien\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cw2IJPNG20Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ticket chic, ticket choc<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another famously iconic element of the Paris Metro system, at least for now, is also one of the smallest. Almost since the beginning (in 1900), Parisian commuters on their way to work*** and foreign tourists exploring the city would gain access to the M\u00e9tro using a small rectangular\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/buying-billets-or-taking-tickets-confusing-words-in-french\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ticket<\/a> de m\u00e9tro\u00a0<\/strong>(<em>metro ticket)\u00a0<\/em>that at their height (like during the 1980&#8217;s when I first lived in France) achieved near-cult pop culture status (just look at the video below!). Often purchased in\u00a0<strong>un carnet de 10 <\/strong>(<em>a block of 10 tickets<\/em>, un carnet cost less then buying 10 individual tickets), the Paris\u00a0<strong>ticket de m\u00e9tro<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>was a bit of a tourist souvenir in its own right, but also ended up on clothing, mugs, key chains and more.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly now &#8211; maybe not for daily commuters, but certainly for those of us who look at the\u00a0<strong>ticket <\/strong>with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/plus-ca-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nostalgia<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the RATP has announced plans to phase out the famous <strong>carton <\/strong>(<em>cardboard\/stiff paper)\u00a0<\/em>metro ticket in favor of a more modern electronic ticketing system like that found in major metropolitan centers around the world. By 2021 the system should be updated across the\u00a0<strong>r\u00e9seau<\/strong> (<em>network<\/em>) to no longer require this charming little reminder of days (soon) past.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RATP T&#039;AS LE TICKET CHIC, T&#039;AS LE TICKET CHOC \/ RATP \/ 1981 \/ HQ \/ STEREO\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/247w8q1tPsY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* There are a few spots where Paris&#8217;s famous\u00a0<em>rames de m\u00e9tro (metro trains)<\/em>\u00a0run above ground. Lines 1, 2, 5 and most notably 6 offer views of the city when they rise from the depths to travers sections of open air.<br \/>\n** Some of the more amusing station name changes include #Tweet (for T\u00e9l\u00e9graphe), Ap\u00e9ro (for Op\u00e9ra), Chatiment (for Crim\u00e9e &#8230; a play on the French title of Crime and Punishment), and the name of the station Anvers &#8230;\u00a0<em>\u00e0 l\u2019inverse\u00a0(upside down<\/em>, since Anvers sounds like inverse).<br \/>\n*** The (in)famous expression\u00a0<em>M\u00e9tro, boulot, dodo\u00a0<\/em>(<em>Metro, work, sleep<\/em>) sums up life for many a working Frenchman (and French woman!) in\u00a0<em>la R\u00e9gion parisienne (the Paris region).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Image Credits: Tim Hildreth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/DSC00004-350x263-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>From its rubber tires to its station signs and art deco entrance-ways, the Paris Metro is one of the oldest, one of the busiest, and perhaps one of the most recognized public transportation systems in the world.\u00a0In a city of so many iconic sights, it might seem strange that one of the most iconic is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/ticket-chic-no-more\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":30548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2149,316,329,250036,357],"class_list":["post-30537","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-france","tag-french-culture","tag-french-expressions","tag-french-history","tag-french-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30537"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30537\/revisions\/30550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}