User:PubliusJ/Métro de Noisy-le-Grand

The Noisy-le-Grand metro was a people mover-type transport line, located in the community of Noisy-le-Grand, a suburb of Paris. It was never opened to the public.

Conception and construction
The concept for the Noisy-le-Grand people mover project was announced in 1988 as part of the Maille Horizon development, promoted by Christian Pellerin. The project was envisioned to be in distance 518 metres along a double-track line, enclosed entirely in a tunnel, serving two stations connecting the new development and the Noisy-le-Grand-Mont d'Est train station where commuters access the RER A Line.

Construction of the line was ordered by Syndicat des Transports d'Île-de-France or STP (later renamed as Île-de-France Mobilités) on 4 July 1991. In October 1991 French firm Soulé was awarded a contract to construct and maintain the new line. The line was to be the first of its kind in an urban environment. Construction of the line was completed on 22 February 1993 at a cost of 70 million francs.

Financial troubles emerged following completion of the line, and opening of the line was postponed indefinitely, although regular maintenance continued at an annual cost of one-million francs.

After more than six years without ridership having commenced, on 7 October 1999 the STP board of directors ordered the termination of the project and closure of the line.