Help with buses in Paris
 

One week from today, we leave for Paris(great cheering on my part!), and I am wondering if there is a map or plan book that shows the bus routes. I checked out www.ratp.fr
and printed the map for the quartier where we will be, but I would like something with more detail, to figure out connections around the city.

This is our 4th trip, and last time we used the buses a little, but I think a plan or map(like the one for RER and Metro) might help. Does such a thing exist, and where do I find it? We'll be arriving on Eurostar at Gare du Nord.

Hi Barb, you can ask for a large map at any metro window. Its a large fold out map with the metro rer on one side and the bus on the other. Beyond that you can print out maps for each line from the ratp site. There is also a bus book available in book stores that has a map of every line.

The best mapbook, in my experience thus far, is the dark blue "3 Plans par Arrondissement" that you can buy at the newsstands. It has 3 maps per arr: a metro showing lines overlaying streets, a street map, and a bus map showing lines overlaying streets. It's very clear on the location of the bus stops.
It's about 5x8 inches, fits in pocketbook but not a pocket.

There are other bus mapbooks, but the streets are very small print and don't seem as visually easy to use.

The free 'grand plan' you get when you buy your tickets or pass is pretty good, but of course, doesn't have as much street detail.

See:
Le petit parisien - 3 plans différents par arrondissement
ISBN: 2-7072-0407-2 6.50€
www.massin.fr

6.50€ ??? Darn, I just paid 8€ for that thing in a bookstore on St-Antoine last month!! I quite liked it, though.

Anselm

You can use Adobe.com Reader to zoom and print sections from this map:

http://www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan...eur&fm=pdf

And this one will print on a single letter sheet:

http://www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan...aux&fm=pdf

<font color="purple"> Buy the pocket-sized &quot;le Bus&quot;--little blue booklet with all the routes, overlaid on maps of the city. Also shows the correspondance points, which RATP route maps do not do.

This is the where you get neighborhood maps:

http://www35.ratp.info/Proxi/proxi.php?

And individual routes:

http://www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan...&amp;nompdf=84
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I use metro map #2, that you can get free at any metro station. That's the one MorganB referred to, I think. It indicates all the streets the buses travel on, if any are one-way it shows that, &amp; it also indicates the stops.

Stu Dudley

When you want a map for a specific route, put its number at the end of this URL, substituting for the &quot;42&quot;:

http://www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan...&amp;nompdf=42