“As the metro ticket disappears, so does a part of our lives.”
“As the metro ticket disappears, so does a part of our lives,” said Gregoire Thonnat, a collector and author of a book on the history of the metro ticket. “The metro ticket is part of how we picture Paris.”
But then the Covid-19 pandemic erupted, and Russia’s war in Ukraine, and with it a global shortage of microchips needed to make the smartcards to replace the tickets, whose sales still total 550 million per year, more than 50 tonnes of paper. “I’m enthusiastic about this development,” Probst said. “This is a sea change in the quality of our customer service.”
“I’m going to keep collecting metro tickets until they’re gone, and when they’re gone they’ll be even more precious,” she said. Some tourists visiting Paris can’t wait for the day when they won’t have to decipher complicated metro ticket machines.
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