Villejuif - Louis Aragon (Paris Métro)
 Villejuif - Louis Aragon
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| Tariff zone | 2 |
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| place | Villejuif |
| opening | February 28, 1985 |
| Connected stations | Villejuif - Louis Aragon →  
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Villejuif - Louis Aragon is an underground station of the Paris Métro . It is located below the Boulevard Maxime Gorki in the Paris suburb of Villejuif and is served by Métrolinie 7 . The station is named after the suburb of the same name and the French poet Louis Aragon .
The station went into operation on February 28, 1985, when the last section of the south-west branch of line 7 from Le Kremlin-Bicêtre station to Villejuif - Louis Aragon station went into operation. Since then it has been the terminus of this branch of Line 7, the terminus of the south-eastern branch is Mairie d'Ivry .
Passenger volume
In 2011, the station counted 5.6 million passengers.
Change to the tram
Since November 16, 2013 Villejuif - Louis Aragon is a transfer station for the newly opened line 7 of the Paris tram (T7) from Villejuif - Louis Aragon to Porte de l'Essonne ( Athis-Mons ). This represents an extension of Métrolinie 7 to the south; by 2018 the tram line is to be extended to the train station in Juvisy-sur-Orge , where it will be connected to the RER network .
Projects
In 2020 the transfer station station is to become the - still to be built - ring line 15 of the Grand Paris Express project . The platforms of line 15 will be approx. 30 m deep.
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
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Villejuif - Paul Vaillant-Couturier ← La Courneuve - 8 May 1945 |
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Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '14 " N , 2 ° 22' 3" E