Don’t try this at home

Malecki’s right, this is very cool indeed.

P.S. Is it really true that “4.5 million Parisians” ride the Metro every day? Even setting aside that not all the riders are Parisians, I’m guessing that 4.5 million is the number of rides, not the number of people who ride.

7 thoughts on “Don’t try this at home

  1. Is it really true that "4.5 million Parisians" ride the Metro every day?

    People say this all the time! It's so annoying. They always mean how many rides there were a day.

  2. Well, according to Wikipedia the urban area of Paris has 10,197,678 inhabitants. Assuming that most of them work in Paris and considering that the Metro *is* the fastet way around in the city, technically 4.5 million Parisians could ride the Metro each day.
    Wikipedia says in it's own article on the Métro that the daily *ridership* is 4.5 million, however. Does that mean persons or rides? I have no clue.

  3. A fascinating if slightly suicidal exploration of the metro… The "third rail" is a high voltage power line! An interesting omission is about the rats that you can often see running along while waiting for a metro car on quiet days. Some of the pictures are truly fantastic!

  4. Brings up the, um, split nature of parenthood. I really really would like to do that myself (yeah, right I ever would at my age). And, I would expressly forbid my kids to ever consider it, once they are old enough to decide to do that.

  5. You've quoted it as "4.5 million Parisians", but the post currently reads "4.5 million passengers", which is a little more defensible.

  6. X: We have rats here in the NYC subway too!

    Ase: Yup.

    Corey: They must have fixed it, then. I probably wasn't the only one to notice!

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