With effect from 1st July 2007, the present mauve-coloured t ticket will give way to the new white-coloured t+ ticket.
Like the t ticket, the t+ ticket enables the customer to travel on:

	the whole of the metro and the Montmartre funicular
	the RER (RATP and SNCF) within Paris
	the RATP buses in Paris and the suburbs (except for lines with special fares: Orlyval, Orlybus or Roissybus )
	most of the Optile network lines (that cover the private bus companies in the outer suburbs)
	and to make connections on the whole of the metro and the RER within Paris as the t ticket did
	and use the Noctilien network (of night buses) without connections in accordance with the specific fare system on the Noctilien network.

Apart from the colour, what else is new?

The t+ ticket brings in a more extensive service with a new functionality:

o the possibility of making bus/bus and bus/tram connections. This service covers all the RATP and Optile buses on the Ile-de-France network and the tram lines T1, T2 and T3. T4 will be accessible with the t+ ticket by 31/03/2008.

How do you use it?

After validating it every time he boards a bus or tram, the customer has an hour and a half between the first validation and the last validation to make one or more connections.
The t+ ticket is sold singly (full fare) or in a carnet (full or reduced fare).

Aboard buses, the drivers have a different ticket they sell, which does not allow connections.

Transition period

The introduction of the white ticket will last several months and not just on the ticket machines. Customers will still be able to use their mauve tickets in the meantime until the stocks run out, so the mauve t ticket will carry on being useable including for making bus/bus and bus/tram connections.

			Fares apply from July 1st 2008
			Ticket t+

		Zones	Euros

		1 ticket	1,60
		Carnet of 10 tickets full fare	11,40
		Carnet of 10 tickets reduced fare	5,70

You’ve got questions ? We’ve got the answers !

1) Does the « t+ ticket » replace the old t ticket ?
Yes. It is sold in the same way as the old t ticket singly or in carnets of ten at full fare or half fare.


2) With which tickets can you make bus connections?
With the t+ tickets sold singly or in carnets (normal fare or reduced fare)
Be careful: the ticket sold on board buses marked “sans correspondance” does not allow for connections.

3) Can you make connections between RATP and Optile bus lines?
Yes You can make connections between two RATP lines, 2 Optile lines and between an RATP line and an Optile line.

4) What about connections with trams?
You can make connections between trams and all intersecting bus lines, except for the T4.

5) Do you have to validate your ticket again when making a connection?
Yes, the ticket has to be validated every time you board a bus or tram.

6) Can you make several connections with the same t+ ticket?
Yes, provided that no more than one hour and half elapses between the first and the last validation.

7) Can you make a round trip on the same bus or tram line?
No

8) Can you get off along the way and get back on a bus on the same line?
No

9) With the t+ ticket can you connect between the bus and the metro?
No. The t+ ticket allows connections:
- either on the rail network : between metro lines and with the RER RATP and SNCF lines (within Paris)
- or on the bus network : between bus lines and with the tram lines, except for T4

10) Where can you buy the t+ tickets ?
The t+ ticket is on sale everywhere you could buy the old « t ticket », that is:
- from the sales windows of the metro and RER stations;
- from the sales windows in certain bus terminuses ;
- from shops approved by the RATP, the SNCF and OPTILE (mainly tobacconists);
- from the ticket machines in the stations and certain bus terminuses and on the trams;

Be careful: On the buses you can only buy single “ sans correspondance “ bus tickets, so you cannot make any connections however long the journey

11) Do the present reduced fare passes apply to the “t+ ticket”?
Of course! Holders of these passes can buy a carnet of “t+ tickets” at half price. These are:
- holders of the “Famille Nombreuse” pass
- holders of the “Solidarité Transport” pass
- holders of the “Améthyste” pass.

12) What about children?
Children from 4 to 9 years of age inclusive can travel with “t+ tickets” from a half-price carnet as with the old t ticket.

13) Why is it that some white tickets do not carry the “t+ ticket” reference?
In the ticket machines, the other tickets for the suburbs are printed off the same rolls as the “t+ tickets”, so they will be the same colour.

14) Does anything about my suburbs ticket change?
It becomes white, that’s all.

15) If the sales window or ticket machine give me a mauve ticket, what is the difference with respect to the white “t+ ticket”?
There is none. It means they have not yet received the new colour. At the next delivery, all the tickets will come out white.

16) Why is the tobacconist still selling the mauve t tickets?
There again, the old stocks have not been used up. They will gradually be replaced with white “t+ tickets”.

17) Why do the buses still have the mauve t tickets ?
Still for the same reason. Once the present stocks are used up, the mauve tickets will be replaced by white tickets carrying the reference “sans correspondance” that can only be used on the bus from which they are bought.

18) For tickets sold on board, will no connections be available?
Right, no connection will be available with these “sans correspondance” tickets.

19) I have got a carnet of mauve tickets. Are they still valid? For how long?
Yes, of course ! Relax, you have not wasted your money. You can use these tickets as at present on the RATP and the SNCF. They are still valid on certain OPTILE and TRA lines that already accepted them.
From now on these mauve t tickets permit connections to be made bus/bus and bus/tram just like the t+ ticket.

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20) Do I have to change my mauve tickets for white ones?
No, not at all. You can use them on the RATP, the SNCF and Optile as you do now.

21) Are the Carte Orange coupons going to change colour?
No. This change only affects the tickets.