Barbara Metro Station

Barbara is a station of the Paris Métro on Line 4 in Montrouge and Bagneux. The station was built as be part of a two-station southward extension from Mairie de Montrouge to Bagneux–Lucie Aubrac. It opened on 13 January 2022. The extension is expected to bring 37,000 new passengers per day. The cost of the extension was 406 million euro, split between Ile-de-France Region (60%), the state (25.7%), and the department of Hauts-de-Seine, in which Barbara is located (14.3%).

The station was designed by LIN (Finn Geipel and Giulia Andi). It is fitted with platform edge doors, as part of the automation of Line 4, planned to be completed by 2022. Above the station entrance at Avenue Marx Dormoy, RATP Habitat will build an apartment building for young workers.

During the planning stages of the extension, the station was tentatively called Verdun-Sud. Following a public vote, the station was named after French singer Barbara, who was buried in the nearby Cimetière parisien de Bagneux.

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