Olympiades station

Olympiades
Station view
General information
LocationLes Olympiades
13th arrondissement of Paris
France
Coordinates48°49′38″N 2°22′06″E / 48.82722°N 2.36833°E / 48.82722; 2.36833
Owned byRATP
Construction
AccessibleYes[1]
Other information
Fare zone1
History
Opened26 June 2007 (2007-06-26)
Services
Preceding station Paris Métro Paris Métro Following station
Bibliothèque François Mitterrand Line 14 Maison Blanche
Location
Olympiades is located in Paris
Olympiades
Olympiades
Location within Paris

Olympiades station (French pronunciation: [ɔlɛ̃pjad] ) is a station on Line 14 of the Paris Métro.

The station was formally inaugurated on 15 June 2007 in the presence of the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë.[2] It was opened to the general public at just before 5:30 a.m. on 26 June 2007.[3] It takes its name from the area of high-rise residential tower blocks known as Les Olympiades in the heart of Paris's 13th arrondissement, to the east of the station Tolbiac, a quarter of Paris that was previously poorly served by the Metro. This area also contains the Tolbiac centre of the University of Paris and the largest Chinatown within Paris.

Since the opening of the station, residents of the area, as well as staff and students at the university, can now access Saint-Lazare railway station in 13 minutes and the centre of Paris in around 10 minutes. The station entrance is at the intersection of the Rue de Tolbiac and Rue Nationale. The station served as the southern terminus of Line 14 until it was extended south to Aéroport d'Orly on 24 June 2024.[4]

  1. ^ "Plan des lignes -personnes à mobilité réduite" [Line plan - persons with reduced mobility] (PDF) (Map). RATP (in French). May 2022.
  2. ^ Métropole – Olympiades : fini de jouer Archived 2007-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ RATP – Extension réseau Archived 2007-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Compagnon, Sébastian; Gairaud, Marie-Anne (2024-06-24). "Ligne 14 de Saint-Denis - Pleyel à l'aéroport d'Orly : « Ces nouvelles stations, c'est vraiment waouh ! »". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-06-24.