Pont Cardinet: station history
Served by: metro line 14.
Did you know?
The station opened at the end of 2020 with the extension of line 14 to Mairie de Saint-Ouen; the source gives 14 December. Its main entrance is on rue Cardinet, opposite the square des Batignolles, and Pont-Cardinet railway station is a few dozen metres away. It lies under the extension of the parc Martin-Luther-King, in the Clichy-Batignolles urban project, and its platforms, about 20 m deep, are 120.5 m long.
Anecdote
The main entrance, on the ground floor of a building, was designed by the German artist Tobias Rehberger: triangular elements, opaque or backlit, display the time following the principle of a binary clock. The station served as the launch shaft for the tunnel boring machine Magali, which was then restarted northwards under the name Yolène.
Around Pont Cardinet
- Parc Martin-Luther-King, 850 m away — One of the most recent large parks in Paris, developed on former railway wasteland.
- Square des Batignolles, 450 m away — A 19th-century English-style garden, a peaceful green haven in the heart of the Batignolles district.
- Marché Berthier, 1450 m away — A lively neighbourhood market, valued by locals for its fresh produce.