The Aardvark SpeaksEssence, effervescence, obscurity : Horst Prillinger's weblog, broadcasting from Vienna, Austria. (excerpts only)No more Carte Orange- July 31, 2008 RATP, the Paris public transport authority, is abolishing the "Carte Orange" on August 4th. Which is good for me, as I can thus finally get rid of one of the more dubious photographs that exist of me. The Carte Orange, the cheapest way to get around Paris if you are staying 3 days or longer, and one of the more famous public transport tickets in the world, thus meets its untimely end 33 years after its introduction. It is replaced by the RFID-based "Passe Navigo". Paris visitors without a...http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/blog/archives/2008/07/002175.html |