Pie-IX (Montreal Metro)

Pie -IX is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Mercier - Hochelaga -Maisonneuve at the intersection of Boulevard Pie -IX and Avenue Pierre -de- Coubertin, right next to the Olympic Stadium. Here the green line trains run 1 In 2006, 4,600,629 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 15th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by Marcel Raby station was built in an open design. Your walls are made of roughened, ribbed concrete with a paint in earthy tones. The manifold layer was built with such generous proportions that they can cope with the crowds before and after events at the Olympic Stadium. A second access tunnel runs directly towards the city center leading to the platform and is used for particularly large crowds. There are two entrance buildings. The eastern is integrated into the atrium of the Olympic stadium, the roof repeated its curved shape; Western was built in a more conventional style.

In 10.1 meters depth, the platform level is with two side platforms. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 766.88 meters to 621.85 meters to Joliette and Viau. There are connections to five bus routes and a night bus the Société de transport de Montréal. Attractions nearby are next to the Olympic Stadium and the Botanical Gardens, Parc Maisonneuve and the Château Dufresne. The other facilities in the Olympic Park will be opened up by the neighboring station Viau.

Art

The installed in the station works of art all refer to the Olympics. A relief mural in aluminum and concrete adorns the wall of the distributor level. The 22 meter long and 2.3 meter high work of Catalan artist Jordi Bonet symbolizes the three parts of the Olympic motto Citius, Altius, Fortius ( "Faster, Higher, Stronger ").

Architect Marcel Raby contributed three other pieces of art. On the wall of the platform leading into town hanging Olympic rings made ​​of bronze, with a diameter of 1.5 meters. There is an abstraction of the Olympic rings, five concrete panels of 1.3 meters in diameter with ceramic articles in the Olympic colors on the wall of the second access tunnels leading to it. An air grid has circular elements that are painted in the same colors.

History

The opening of the station took place on June 6, 1976, six weeks before the start of the 1976 Olympic Games, along with the portion of Frontenac - Honoré Beaugrand - the green line. It is named after the Boulevard Pie -IX, named after Pope Pius IX. ( 1792-1878 ). In previous planning Pie -IX was intended as the end of a metro line 6 ( " white line " ), the project was dropped.