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General Information

Completion: 1991
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Tramway line

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Technical Information

Dimensions

length 7.3 km

Design Loads

design speed 80 km/h

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Orlyval is an automatic light metro shuttle service connecting Paris's Orly Airport with the city's RER transit network at Antony on line B. It was opened on 2 October 1991, the second line to use the VAL automatic metro system after the Lille Metro.

History

The construction was controversial: the competing proposal for a public transport link to the airport involved a railway line integrated with the RER, which would have allowed trains from various origins to serve the airport. The shuttle option was seen as the least integrated with the rest of the network. However, the small size of the VAL allowed the stations, in particular Orly – Ouest, to be at the same level and very close to the terminals.

Initially it was run privately by Matra, but because construction and operating costs were too high to generate profits it passed to the publicly owned RATP. It is the only public transport link in the Paris region on which the Navigo (Formerly Carte Orange) travel pass was not valid.

Orlyval charges a substantial €9,30 one-way fare between Antony and the airport (€12,10 for an integrated ticket from any zone 1 station in central Paris) and disallows the use of Mobilis day tickets. The more expensive Carte Paris Visite is accepted (if all five zones are paid for).

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Orlyval" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    10000241
  • Published on:
    01/03/2003
  • Last updated on:
    23/01/2022
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