Paul Terry wrote on 29 April 2009 19:36:48 ...
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What is the average speed on the Paris Metro anyway? It can't be very high.
Considerably lower than London (although "average" is a poorly defined
term in this context).
Line 14's average of 40 km/h was claimed to be twice the speed of the
rest of the Paris metro. I believe LU has an average of 33 km/h over the
whole system - although this includes non-stop runs over quite long
lengths of the Met and Piccadilly.
I've just compared two reasonably similar runs in London and Paris, both
of 8.55 km, and both using late 1970s steel-wheeled stock on inner-city
routes, departing tomorrow at midday:
London: District Line, Gloucester Road to Tower Hill (11 stops, not
including Blackfriars)
19 minutes (average 27 kph)
Paris: Line 8, Reuilly-Diderot to Ecole Militaire (via Bastille, Opéra,
Invalides) (17 stops)
23 minutes (average 22.3 kph)
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Richard J.
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