My favorite is Liberté.

Thanks again everyone for the feedback. @latedaytraveler - I see so many people wearing jeans - it really is not an issue. Wear what you like I say.

LOVE the first shot across to the opposite platform, and the Art et Metiers shot--I stayed in that neighborhood on one trip and loved that copper-clad tunnel!

Cool and interesting pictures, parisbyphoto. A true snapshot of daily life on the Metro.
Last October I spent a week in an apartment located between Alesia and Mouton Duvernet (off Ave Gen Leclerc), so I know the insides of those two stations very well. Your pics of them took me right back and made me wish I was in Paris again !

Funny, but I was also robbed last year at Gare du Nord, and didn't realise my loss until I arrived in London.

Thanks for sharing your great images.

thanks Patti and Mathieu. not good to be robbed at gare du nord:(

No, not pleasant to be robbed/pickpocketed that's for sure. I won't go into the details of my experience except to say that Jay_G's description of the scene at GdN is spot-on and it was during my decision to stop and spend a few minutes observing this fascinating melee of people and goings-on that I'm convinced is when I was robbed. I wasn't harmed, but the annoyance of the situation spread over several days, and even resulted in my missing my final flight home and being stuck at a CDG hotel for 36 hours trying to get another one.

I must say that the Police at GdN station were very helpful and super-efficient in assisting. They're obviously used to this. Just before I left after all the note-taking procedures, the attending officer apologised to me for the occurrence and intimated gravely about the severity of crime at that station. Indeed, it was the first time I've ever been robbed in all my travels over the past 30 years and I'm pretty travel-smart about such things.

Parisbyphoto, your pictures reminded me of something else - seeing tourists (I'm assuming) almost missing their station stops, because they stood in the train waiting for the doors to automatically open, not realising that at certain metro stops you have to unlock the doors from the inside to let you out.

I love the Metro! I even like the smell - well, that burning rubber-type of smell, mainly because um...it reminds me of the Metro. ;-)

Thanks for posting this, parisbyphoto. So many good shots, but I love the empty train one.

@mathieu - yes, I remember when I first started taking the metro, some lines the doors you need to open, not even with a button but some strange handle that you need to kinda rotate upwards to open. Confusing for the first time!

@YankyGal - thanks!

Thanks Parisbyphoto - great pics.

"Confusing for the first time!"

Also confusing on my 12th trip to Paris after sharing a couple of bottles of vin rouge.

((H))