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Metro: the trains will run all night starting May 1st!

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One of the biggest topics during Emmanuel Grégoire's campaign was keeping metro lines open all night. And thanks to a petition launched by the new mayor of Paris (signed by over 10,000 people) and a fierce battle against Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), the organization in charge of managing public transport in Paris, this is about to become a reality!

In 2019, Valérie Pécresse, then president of the Île-de-France region and not of IDFM as is the case today, announced a brand new experiment: metro services running all night every second Saturday of the month. This was an initiative we could only support, which unfortunately didn't bear fruit, nor last as long as we had hoped. However, the good news is that nearly 7 years later, our wildest wishes have come true, as the Paris metro will finally run all night (at least partially).


Transport Revolution Coming Soon

If you’ve been living in Paris for a while, you know that all-night metros are on the way. Rare, yes, but there are a few occasions when we are incredibly lucky to be able to take public transport at any hour.

public transport in Paris. And every time, it fills us with joy during the evening, only to knock us out the next day at the thought of having to find the night buses, bikes, Ubers, and other night transport options.

Well, guess what? In just a few weeks, on May 1st, you can wipe away your tears because not only we won't be working, but on top of that, this exception will become... the rule! Indeed, after a muscular showdown with the Paris transport authority and their regional manager, the newly elected mayor of Paris has succeeded, securing the permission and resources to make the metro run all night long!


A gradual rollout

Now, while it's probably the best metro news of the year, let's take a moment to temper our excitement a bit. Initially, this fantastic measure will only apply to the three already automated lines.

Lines 1, 4, and 14 will only operate all night on Friday and Saturday nights. Starting from Friday, May 1st, from the official end of the service to its reopening, you can expect about 6 trains per hour (which means one every 10 minutes) on the affected lines. The long-term goal is obviously to add new lines as they are automated, and to extend the opening to every day of the week. In the meantime, we are already very excited about all the possibilities this railway revolution brings us!

P.S.: Before wrapping up, did you check today’s date? Always keep a hint of skepticism… because as tradition goes, April 1st is often a day for mischief, and here at Bonbon, we love a good joke. Don’t be too disappointed; some of our pranks have actually come true in the past… You never know!