Villejuif – Louis Aragon (Paris Métro)

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 the Métro line 7. The station is named after the suburb and the French poet Louis Aragon the same name.

The station was put into operation on 28 February 1985, when the last section of the South West branch of line 7 from the station Le Kremlin -Bicêtre to station Villejuif - Louis Aragon was put into operation. Since then she has end point of this branch of line 7, the end point of the southeastern branch Mairie d' Ivry is.

Ridership

2011, 5.6 million passengers were counted at the station.

Switch to the tram

Since November 16, 2013 is Villejuif - Louis Aragon transfer-station for the newly opened line 7 of the Paris tram ( T7) of Villejuif - Louis Aragon to Porte de l' Essonne ( Athis -Mons ). This represents an extension of the metro line 7 to the south; by 2018 the tram line will be further extended to the station of Juvisy -sur -Orge and there offer connection to the RER network.

Projects

2020, the interchange station for the - still to be built - will ring line 15 of the Grand Paris Express project. The platforms of the line 15 will remain at about 30 m depth.