Saint-Ambroise  | |||||||||||
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| Location | 11th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°51′41″N2°22′27″E / 48.861295°N 2.374211°E /48.861295; 2.374211 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | RATP | ||||||||||
| Operated by | RATP | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 10 December 1933 (1933-12-10) | ||||||||||
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Saint-Ambroise (French pronunciation:[sɛ̃t‿ɑ̃bʁwaz]) is astation onLine 9 of theParis Métro, located in the11th arrondissement of Paris. It is underBoulevard Voltaire.
The station is located underBoulevard Voltaire, northwest of the Rue Saint-Ambroise exit. Oriented along a north-west / south-east axis, it is situated between the Oberkampf and the Voltaire stations.
Saint-Ambroise station was opened on 10 December 1933 following the extension of Line 9 from Richelieu–Drouot toPorte de Montreuil.
Its namesake is the street it is located under (Rue Saint-Ambroise), where achurch bearing the same name can also be found. Rue Saint-Ambroise and the church of Saint-Ambroise pay homage toAmbrose ofMilan (340–394), bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, born in Trier, Germany, whose father was a prefect of Gaul. The church was rebuilt following a decree of 24 January 1863 during the modernisation of the newly created Saint-Ambroise district.
At the end of the 1990s, the station was chosen by theRATP to test the prototypes of the main lighting model that would be deployed on the platforms of many other stations renovated as part of theEspace Métro 2000 operation subsequently entitledRenouveau du Métro and thenUne métro + beau. In 1998, it became the first in a series of 273 futures to benefit from the components. However, its corridors were only modernised on 20 December 2005.
In 2018, 3,037,654 passengers entered this station which places it at the 183rd out of 302.[1]
The station has five access points, each consisting of a fixed staircase:
| Street Level |
| B1 | Mezzanine |
| Line 9 platforms | Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Westbound | ← towardPont de Sèvres(Oberkampf) | |
| Eastbound | towardMairie de Montreuil(Voltaire) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Saint-Ambroise is a standard configuration station It has two platforms separated by metro tracks and the arch is elliptical. The decoration is the style used for most metro stations. The lighting strips are white and rounded in theGaudin style of the metro revival of the 2000s (although they have a second row of reflectors, a prototype variant that was not reused), and the white ceramic tiled tiles cover the walls, the vault, the tunnel exits, and the outlets of the corridors. The advertising frames arefaience honey colour in the originalCMP style and the name of the station is also in faience. TheAkiko style seats are orange. Access is via both ends of the platform.
The station is served by Line 56 of theRATP Bus Network.
