Atwater (Montreal Metro)

Atwater is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie and partly in the neighboring municipality of Westmount, at the intersection of Boulevard De Maisonneuve and Atwater Avenue. Here the green line trains run 1 In 2006, 6,445,438 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the 8th position among the total of 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by the architectural firm David, Boulva and Clève station is designed purely functional and was in an open design. All the walls are covered with beige tiles in various shades. In 7.6 meters depth, the platform level is with two side platforms. The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from end station to station early, be 1387.74 meters to Lionel Groulx - and 681.54 meters to Guy- Concordia. From the distributor level of two outputs are achievable. That before the Dawson College corresponds in shape and color to the main building of this school. The second is a block southeast on Cabot Square and is a pavilion made ​​of glass and steel.

There are connections to nine bus routes and ten night bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal. These hold at the terminus Atwater, a bus around the Cabot Square. The station Atwater is indeed part of the Montreal underground city, but is not connected to the main segment. Underground walk the Dawson College, the shopping center Place Alexis Nihon and the four office towers of Westmount Square can be reached. In the immediate vicinity is the former ice hockey stadium Forum de Montréal.

History

The opening of the station took place on 14 October 1966, together with the section as far as Papineau. Atwater is part of the backbone of the Montreal Metro and was nearly twelve years, the western terminus of the green line. The section of Atwater - Angrignon went on 3 September 1978 in operation. The namesake of the station is the Atwater Avenue, named after the Montreal city council Edwin Atwater (1808-1874), who notably the establishment of the municipal water supply made ​​his name.