Paris Métro Line 8 is one of 16 lines of the Paris Métro, France. It connects the Balard station in southwestern Paris, to Créteil – Pointe du Lac station in Créteil, a town south-east of the French capital, following a parabolic route on the right bank of Seine River. It was the last line of the original 1898 Paris Métro plan and was initially meant to link the Porte d'Auteuil and the Opéra stations. This initial section opened in December 1913.
It was deeply modified during the 1930s as line 10 took over the western section. The current route, starting in southwestern Paris at the Balard station, serves successively the south-west part of the city, the Grands Boulevards, the Bois de Vincennes, and ending in the southeastern inner suburbs through the cities (communes) of Charenton-le-Pont, Maisons-Alfort and finally Créteil that the line reached in 1974 at the Créteil – Préfecture station following several extensions. It became the first underground line to connect the prefecture of one of the new departments of Île-de-France.
It is the only Paris underground line to cross the Seine and its principal tributary, the Marne, in the air via a bridge between Charenton - Écoles and École Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, as well as the Seine in underground between Concorde and Invalides. With 89 million travellers in 2004, it is the eighth line of the network for its traffic.
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