Édouard-Montpetit (Montreal Metro)

Édouard Montpetit
Location 2030/2040, boul. Édouard-Monpetit and 80, av. Vincent-D'Indy, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates 45°30′36″N 73°36′45″W / 45.51000°N 73.61250°W / 45.51000; -73.61250Coordinates: 45°30′36″N 73°36′45″W / 45.51000°N 73.61250°W / 45.51000; -73.61250
Operated by Société de transport de Montréal
Connections
  STM buses
Construction
Depth 16.6 metres (54 feet 6 inches), 26th deepest
Architect Patrice Gauthier
History
Opened 4 January 1988
Traffic
Passengers 1,312,166 entrances in 2006, 55th of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Snowdon
Blue Line
toward Saint-Michel

Édouard-Montpetit is a station on the Blue Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is located in the Côte-des-Neiges area of borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1]

Overview

It is a normal side platform station.

Origin of name

Édouard-Montpetit station takes its name from the street under which it lies: Édouard-Montpetit Boulevard. The boulevard in turn takes its name from Édouard Montpetit (1881–1954), a Quebec lawyer, economist and academic closely linked with the nearby Université de Montréal.

Particularities

Édouard-Montpetit station was designed to be able to provide a connection with the Agence métropolitaine de transport's Montreal—Deux Montagnes commuter rail line, which during the planning of the original network was to have been converted into Line 3 of the Metro. However, this never made it past the planning stage. If such a connection were implemented, high-speed elevators would run from the Metro station to the train station in the Mount Royal Tunnel, 75 metres (246 feet)[2] below. The ventilation shaft for the Mount Royal Tunnel is next to the Édouard-Montpetit Station.[2]

The tunnel connection proposal has been brought up again in plans for the Réseau électrique métropolitain, which would see the Tunnel carry the new rapid-transit service and have a station built to connect to the Metro here. [3]

Connecting bus routes

Société de transport de Montréal
Route Service Times Map Schedule
51 Boulevard Édouard-Montpetit All-day Map Schedule
119 Rockland All-day before 8:00PM Map Schedule
368 Mont-Royal Overnight Map Schedule

Nearby points of interest

References

  1. ↑ Édouard-Montpetit Metro Station
  2. 1 2 Tunnel
  3. ↑ Jason Magder (April 22, 2016). "Electric light-rail train network spearheaded by Caisse de dépôt to span Montreal by 2020". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved April 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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