Rosemont (Montreal Metro)

Rosemont is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Rosemont -La Petite- Patrie at the intersection of Rue Saint- Denis and the Boulevard de Rosemont. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 2,543,424 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 36th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by the architectural firm Duplessis, Labelle et Derome station was built in an open design. She is running two stories on almost its entire length, which gives a spacious impression. The walls at the height of the bridge-like constructed distribution level are beveled, which gives an octagonal floor plan. Walls and pillars are covered with tiles in orange and brown colors. The main entrance is to be found in a slate-colored pavilion; this is supplemented by canopies, under which there are several bus stops.

In 11.6 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 746.10 meters to 541.10 meters to Laurier and Beaubien. There are connections to six bus routes and two night bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal. In the vicinity is the Montreal Carmelite.

History

The opening of the station took place on 14 October 1966, together with the portion of Place - d'Armes -Henri - Bourassa the orange line. Thus Rosemont part of the basic network of the Montreal Metro. It is named after the Boulevard de Rosemont. This name dates back to the broker Ucal -Henri Dandurand, who acquired on behalf of the Canadian Pacific Railway sprawling plots of land for the construction of a marshalling yard and released a little rest for the housing. He called the resulting settlement Rosemont, according to his mother Rose Phillips.