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Old May 7, 2007 | 6:44 am
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Originally Posted by Mountain Trader
Since the OP has to get on Metro line 1 anyway, telling him to get onto the (often confusing) RER for a needless interim stop is just silly, even if it might, in theory, save a minute or two.

There's a huge value to keeping this stuff simple for newbies, even if it means we can't always post everything we might know.
Hey, I am not the one who suggested an RER-metro interchange in the first place. If you really think that the RER is confusing, then clearly the best advice would NOT be to get onto the RER B or D at Gare du nord at all, but rather to take the metro ligne 4 towards Porte d'Orleans and change at Chatelet onto ligne 1 to Porte Maillot. only one change metro to metro, rather than rer to metro. This would also clearly involve far, far less walking and be only marginally longer, if at all.
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