page_title: Saint-Placide (Paris Métro)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Placide (Paris Métro) / History
caption_attribution_description: Paris Metro Saint-Placide station
context_page_description: Saint-Placide is a station on Line 4 of the Paris Métro. Situated in the 6th arrondissement, it was used by 3,376,988 passengers in 2018, making it the 163rd busiest Métro station out of 302.
context_section_description: The station was opened on 9 January 1910 as part of the connecting section of the line under the Seine between Châtelet and Raspail. The station, in the Montparnasse area, is after Rue Saint-Placide, commemorating Saint Placidus. It was opened on 9 January 1910 under the name of Vaugirard, but its name was changed on 15 November 1913 to avoid confusion with the Nord-Sud Company's Vaugirard, now on Line 12.
  Like most of the stations on Line 4, between October 1966 and October 1967, the platforms were extended to 90 metres in order to accommodate trains of six cars to cope with significant chronic overcrowding as well as the pneumatization of the said line. As part of the RATP Renouveau du métro program, the station corridors and platform lighting were renovated on 24 May 2005.
  From 2017, the platforms were undergoing a partial modernisation as part of the automation of Line 4, including their elevation to accommodate platform screen doors, which were installed from August to September 2019.
caption: Platorms view
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