The new Villejuif-Gustave Roussy station, circular, is the 21st to open on the route. Designed by architect Dominique Perrault, on 9 underground levels, it will also be connected in 2026 to line 15 of the Greater Paris metro, from suburb to suburb.
Line 14 of the Paris metro, renovated for the Olympic Games, opened its 21st station this Saturday, January 18 in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne, south of Paris), notably serving the first cancer center in Europe Gustave Roussy , indicated the RATP.
The new Villejuif-Gustave Roussy station, circular, is the 21st to open on the route. Designed by architect Dominique Perrault, on 9 underground levels, it will also be connected in 2026 to line 15 of the Greater Paris metro, from suburb to suburb.
Line 14, automatic, flagship of the RATP network, which serves it, connects Saint-Denis to the north of Paris to Orly airport to the south. It welcomes 800,000 passengers per day since the commissioning of its northern and southern extensions on June 24, just before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
It should have a fleet of 72 train sets in the 2nd quarter, built by Alstom, which will make it possible to achieve a frequency of 85 seconds between each train during rush hour instead of the current 95 seconds, RATP indicated.
-New projects
For 2025, RATP is planning new work sites on this line, as all the equipment to modernize the control system could not be installed before the Olympics.
Line 14 is one of the Paris metro lines equipped with recent equipment (with 1, 2, 4, 5 and 11), while other underground lines have accumulated decades of service and performance less good (lines 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 13).
The RATP also announced at the beginning of January several one-off closures for works in 2025, on lines 6 and 9, on sections of RER A and B, and on line T1 of the tramway.
