2023-10-03 08:25:47
Since September 21, it is no longer possible to buy a cardboard metro ticket book. stock.adobe.com
INVESTIGATION – As the network modernizes, with ticketing in full digitalization, the cardboard ticket tends to become rarer. But he’s not quite ready to give up his place yet.
This is the meaning of the story. Having become obsolete in the digital age, the cardboard transport ticket is preparing to bow out in Île-de-France. Since September 21, it is no longer possible to obtain a book of ten cardboard tickets.on all counters and machines in train stations and stations in the Ile-de-France network», Specifies Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM). One more step towards the dematerialization of ticketing… And the disappearance of the famous little transport ticket, once hallmarked and sung by Gainsbourg.
At 123 years old, the ticket has well deserved its retirement. Created in 1900 at the same time as the very first Parisian metro line, the aptly named line 1, this little piece of cardboard has evolved a lot. It changed colors several times, and then became magnetic in 1973. But the real revolution dates from 1975, with the creation of the Orange card, which will be followed in 2009 by the Navigo pass, two tools allowing access to everything the network…
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