Henri-Bourassa (Montreal Metro)

Henri- Bourassa is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Ahuntsic - Cartierville at the intersection of Boulevard Henri- Bourassa and Rue Berri. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 8,308,268 passengers used the station, making it the third most widely used of a total of 68 stations of the Metro Montreal. This high volume of traffic is generated primarily by the adjacent bus station.

Building

Henri- Bourassa consists of two completely different design station parts. The older part was designed by J. Warunkiewicz. It consists of two side platforms, which are connected by a tunnel with two entrances on the Boulevard Henri- Bourassa and the bus station. The walls are covered with terracotta. At the beginning of the 1980s, a second, closer to the platforms situated at the entrance of the Rue Berri, designed by André Léonard and Claude Leclerc was born.

The younger part of the station was almost forty years after the elderly, according to plans by Richard Fortin. Since during the rush hour turns every second train in Henri- Bourassa, an extension of the station was required. For this purpose, a separate tunnel, which is used by trains to the neighboring city of Laval and has a single side platform was created. The walls of the new station part are covered with slate gray tiles and stainless steel, a continuous orange light band announces the arrival of the trains at.

All three platforms are in 18.3 meters depth. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 771.60 meters to Sauvé and 1101.60 meters to Cartier. On both sides of the Boulevard Henri- Bourassa is the Terminus Henri- Bourassa, one operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport bus station. The southern part is used by eleven bus routes and three night bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal. The northern part was formerly the starting point of many lines in the suburbs of the Rive -Nord region, but lost to the extension of the Metro in 2007 significantly in importance. Today, at five lines of the Société de transport de Laval and two lines of the MRC Les Moulins.

Art

In the entrance hall on the north side of the Boulevard Henri- Bourassa, a 5.2 m high and 7.3 m wide mural made of cast concrete is placed. The work Reveil de la conscience par la solitude ( " awakening of consciousness through the loneliness " ) by Jacques Huet presents the development of two figures from negative dar. for the better, it also serves as a fire wall between the entrance hall and the adjacent administration building of the government.

The mural Les enfants dans la ville ( " The Kids in the City" ) graces the eastern distributor level. As a contribution to the International Year of the Child gave the sports and leisure department of the city government, a work of art in order. 330 Montreal Schoolchildren designed from plasticine as a frame to the subject buildings, people, parks and transport. The molds were then filled with concrete and assembled into a 11.1 m wide and 2.9 m high wall relief.

André Léonard created for the entrance hall on Rue Berri two more murals, consisting of brick and terracotta. The 6.1 m wide and 3 m high work Le potager ( " The Vegetable Garden " ) represents in the bird's-eye rows of vegetable beds, which are dominated by trees. Les vents ( " The Wind" ) is 7.5 m wide and 5.5 m high. It indicates the wind blowing over the city.

In connection with the construction of the third platform of the Swiss Axel Morgenthaler created the futuristic light sculpture .98 in one of the access corridors. The plant comprises two sections at both ends of a staircase consisting of 98 per LED light inside. These produce abstract and ever-changing patterns of light, as they would appear on a monitor with 98 pixels.

History

The opening of the station took place on 14 October 1966, forth together with the portion of Place - d'Armes. Thus Henri- Bourassa is part of the backbone of the Montreal Metro and was for more than four decades, the eastern terminus of the orange line. From 15 May to 22 August 2004, the station was closed to allow the construction of the extension to the neighboring city of Laval and a third platform. The section between Henri- Bourassa and the new terminus Montmorency was opened on 28 April 2007. The namesake of the station is the Boulevard Henri- Bourassa. This is according to the influential politician and publisher Henri Bourassa (1868-1952) named, founder of the newspaper Le Devoir.