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2023: The ubiquity of bedbugs in the subway
The widespread detection of bedbugs in France by October 2023 is causing fear among travellers and becoming a sore spot for the government as Paris prepares to host next year's Olympics.
Users social networks post personnel showing insects crawling on high-speed trains and the Paris Metro, and there are plenty of bedbug articles online in cinemas and even Charles de Gaulle Airport.
2022: Planning to scrap paper tickets
In early October 2022, the transport operator of Paris (France) announced its intention to completely abandon paper tickets in the metro, switching to digital methods of paying for travel.
Paper tickets for trips in the Paris subway have been sold since July 1900 - since the opening of line 1 (Line 1). Initially, they cost only 25 centimes (in terms of old money), and now the price is €1.9. Tickets are offered for one train and in T + booklets for 10 trips.
As noted, Paris about 550 million tickets are sold annually in the metro, which is equivalent to more than 50 tons of paper. Moreover, it takes one to two years to decompose each one-time pass. When printing tickets, paint is used, the production of which is harmful to the environment. Plus, modern digital payment methods provide a higher level of convenience, allow you to increase the speed of passenger traffic and make it possible to provide various related services. In light of all these reasons, it was decided to completely abandon paper tickets.
Initially, the transition to digital methods of paying for travel in the subway was planned to begin in 2021, but the timing of the project had to be revised due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The rejection of paper passes will occur gradually. So, already now at a number of stations T + booklets for 10 trips are not sold - they will completely disappear during 2023. And in 2024-2025, ticket sales for one trip will stop.
In parallel, the number of traditional turnstiles is reduced. It is said that if in 2021 more than two-thirds of trips to the Paris Metro were paid for using paper tickets, now this figure is "significantly less than half." Residents and guests of the French capital are increasingly using contactless payment via NFC or mobile payments.[1]
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