Paris ticket "t"

The ticket "t" is the standard single trip ticket for Paris public transit. It can be bought either as a single unit at the price of €1.70, or as a pack of ten, a carnet, at the price of €12.50, a discount of about 25%. The companies operating the ticket "t" are the RATP, the SNCF and the Optile consortium.

The ticket "t" is not the only ticket used in Paris public transit: daily cards (Mobilis — or Ticket jeunes for young people on weekends), weekly and monthly cards (carte orange), and yearly cards (intégrale and imagine R for students) are also available. For tourists needing a pass for a specific length of time, the Paris Visite card is also available.

General use

The ticket "t" can be used as a single trip ticket on:

• The complete Métro network.
• The zone 1 of the RER network (inside the city limits of Paris).
• The complete tramway network.
• The complete RATP bus network, in the city of Paris and its suburbs (except few special lines as explained below).
• Most of the Optile bus network, a union of the private operators of bus lines in Paris outer suburbs.
• The Montmartre funicular.

Exceptions and details on use

On a bus and tramway, a ticket "t" can usually be used for any single trip, without a transfer, regardless of the length of the trip. The only exceptions are Noctilien night bus lines, Orlybus and Roissybus airport bus shuttles,...
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