Oyster - end of the line?

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Re: Oyster - end of the line?

« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2021, 09:43:43 »

As promised by RATP, the paper Métro tickets (t+) are slowly disappearing, though single tickets will still be available - presumably as a last resort for those with nothing but a few coins to get them home. Sale of the carnets of 10 tickets from machines ended in a third of stations yesterday, and in all stations by April 2022. Sale from ticket offices will also end next April.

One of the reasons given for this is that they demagnetise very easily, so a lot of them don't work the barriers. No date has been given for existing tickets to stop being valid.

The similar single-trip SNCF^▸ Transilien tickets, also valid to complete a journey within Paris (by RER/Métro/some trams), are staying.


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