Editing Paris Métro (section)

==== Accessibility ====
Less than 10 per cent of Paris’s metro system is [[Accessibility|wheelchair accessible]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rucker |first=Sam |date=2024-08-28 |title=How disabled access to public transport compares in the UK and across Europe |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/paris-metro-worst-western-europe-wheelchair-access-3249960 |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=The i Paper |language=en-US}}</ref> ranking it as worst metro system in the world for accessibility.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lise |date=2021-01-22 |title=A World Tour of Best Practices to Enhance Subway Accessibility |url=https://www.inclusivecitymaker.com/world-tour-best-practices-subway-accessible-summary-french-study/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=Inclusive City Maker |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=6 December 2017 |title=No entry: Why is the Paris Metro still out of bounds for disabled people? |url=https://www.thelocal.fr/20171206/why-the-paris-metro-is-terrible-for-people-with-disabilities/ |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=The Local France |language=en-US |archive-date=8 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208203639/https://www.thelocal.fr/20171206/why-the-paris-metro-is-terrible-for-people-with-disabilities/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=26 October 2018 |title=As 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Approach, Paris's Metro Is Mostly Off-Limits to the Disabled |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-26/paris-s-metro-says-more-disability-access-is-too-costly |access-date=26 June 2022 |archive-date=11 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011081308/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-26/paris-s-metro-says-more-disability-access-is-too-costly |url-status=live }}</ref> The 20 stations of [[Paris Métro Line 14|Line 14]] (which first opened in 1998) are fully accessible, and all line extensions since 1992 have included lifts at the new stations.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le plan des stations de notre réseau, accessibles aux Personnes à Mobilité Réduite (PMR) {{!}} RATP |url=https://www.ratp.fr/services-aux-voyageurs/plan-des-stations-accessibles-pmr |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=www.ratp.fr |language=fr |archive-date=2 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802093429/https://www.ratp.fr/services-aux-voyageurs/plan-des-stations-accessibles-pmr |url-status=live }}</ref> By 2025, 23 stations on the Métro will be accessible, following extensions to existing lines.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le plan des stations de notre réseau, accessibles aux Personnes à Mobilité Réduite (PMR) {{!}} RATP |url=https://www.ratp.fr/services-aux-voyageurs/plan-des-stations-accessibles-pmr |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=www.ratp.fr |language=fr |quote=D'ici 2025, un total de 23 nouvelles stations accessibles: Des prolongements accessibles dès le renouvellement des rames sur la Ligne 4 (2 stations), la Ligne 11 (6 stations), la Ligne 12 (2 stations). De plus, pour chacun des prolongements 2 stations existantes rendues accessibles. |archive-date=2 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802093429/https://www.ratp.fr/services-aux-voyageurs/plan-des-stations-accessibles-pmr |url-status=live }}</ref> The four new lines of the [[Grand Paris Express]] will also be fully accessible.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adapted public transport Adapted metros in the Paris area |url=https://en.parisinfo.com/what-to-see-in-paris/visiting-paris-with-a-disability/info/guides/transport-and-disability-getting-around-paris/adapted-public-transport/adapted-metros-in-the-paris-area |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=Office de tourisme Paris |archive-date=5 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005014656/https://en.parisinfo.com/what-to-see-in-paris/visiting-paris-with-a-disability/info/guides/transport-and-disability-getting-around-paris/adapted-public-transport/adapted-metros-in-the-paris-area |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=13 November 2019 |title=Tout savoir sur l'accessibilité du nouveau métro |url=https://www.societedugrandparis.fr/gpe/actualite/tout-savoir-sur-laccessibilite-du-nouveau-metro-2767 |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=Société du Grand Paris |language=fr |archive-date=18 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118180222/https://www.societedugrandparis.fr/gpe/actualite/tout-savoir-sur-laccessibilite-du-nouveau-metro-2767 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The {{Interlanguage link|Law on Equal Rights and Opportunities, Participation and Citizenship of Persons with Disabilities of 2005|fr|Loi pour l'égalité des droits et des chances, la participation et la citoyenneté des personnes handicapées}} does not require the Métro to be made accessible.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=de Fortanier |first=Diane |date=16 July 2014 |title=Accessibilité : le métro parisien à la traîne |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2014/07/16/01016-20140716ARTFIG00330-accessibilite-le-metro-parisien-a-la-traine.php |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=LEFIGARO |language=fr |archive-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626112513/https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2014/07/16/01016-20140716ARTFIG00330-accessibilite-le-metro-parisien-a-la-traine.php |url-status=live }}</ref> RATP estimates that retrofitting the network would cost between 4 and 6 billion euros, and that certain stations would remain impossible to retrofit.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Handicap.fr |title=Accessibilité : le métro qui valait quatre milliards ! |url=https://informations.handicap.fr/a-accessibilite-metro-parisien-6854.php |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=Handicap.fr |date=May 2014 |language=fr |archive-date=28 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628175444/https://informations.handicap.fr/a-accessibilite-metro-parisien-6854.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> {{As of|2022}}, there were no plans to retrofit existing stations with lifts.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Balluffier |first=Asia |date=3 December 2017 |title=Pourquoi le métro parisien est-il l'un des pires du monde pour les personnes handicapées? |language=fr-FR |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/video/2017/12/03/pourquoi-le-metro-parisien-est-il-l-un-des-pires-du-monde-pour-les-handicapes_5223906_3224.html |access-date=26 June 2022}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> RATP notes that [[Buses in Paris|buses]] and [[Tramways in Île-de-France|trams]] in Paris are fully accessible, and many [[Paris RER|RER]] & [[Transilien]] stations are accessible.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Network accessibility {{!}} RATP |url=https://www.ratp.fr/en/accessibility/network-accessibility |access-date=26 June 2022 |website=www.ratp.fr}}</ref>