the line quickly became a financial disaster for the cmp, with an average of at most 1,000 passengers per day and per station. the terminus of "croix-rouge" received only four hundred daily passengers, and the station "varenne", the least frequented station of the entire métro network, saw only three hundred passengers per day. as a result, only ten trains of six cars serviced the line, two motor cars serving as first class cars, which saw so little traffic that they were replaced with simple motors equipped only with two conductor cars.