Metro in Paris: why there will be fewer seats on the new trains

It will be better equipped, more comfortable, more efficient… but not necessarily more “restful” for users who prefer to travel seated. The MF19 (Métro Fer designed in 2019) which will gradually replace the exhausted trainsets of lines 3, 3bis, 7, 7bis, 8, 10, 12 and 13 will produce a shock of modernity on almost half of the network. The new train, benefiting from the latest generation technologies, will succeed “old cuckoo clocks” – according to the expression of the CEO of the RATP, Jean Castex – in circulation for four or five decades depending on the case.