Beaudry (Montreal Metro)

Beaudry is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie at the intersection of Boulevard De Maisonneuve and Rue Beaudry. Here the green line trains run 1 In 2006, 1,092,714 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the 61st rank among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by Adalbert Niklewicz station was built as a tunnel station in a rather simple design. The platform level at 25.9 meters depth has two side platforms. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 378.76 meters to Berri -UQAM and 495.00 meters to Papineau. About the tracks spans a small distributor level. On Boulevard De Maisonneuve itself there is no input. Instead, introduces about 100 meters long, slightly inclined moving walkway to the parallel Rue Sainte -Catherine. There is a pavilion, which was rebuilt in the post-modern style in 1999; It was designed by the architectural firm of Beique, Thuot, Legault. There are connections to a bus route and a night bus the Société de transport de Montréal.

Art

The pavilion in the Rue Sainte -Catherine is adorned by six designed by Jacques Thibault aluminum masts above the entrance. These are painted in the six colors of the rainbow flag, the internationally popular symbol of the LGBT movement. The station Beaudry, situated in the Village gai, which has existed since the early 1980s, Montreal lesbian and gay district.

History

The section of Atwater - Papineau was opened on 14 October 1966, but the opening of the intermediate station Papineau was delayed for more than two months and took place only on 21 December 1966. Nevertheless, it belongs to the underground network of the Montreal Metro. It is named after the Rue Beaudry, named after the wholesalers Pierre Beaudry (1774-1848), once verlieft about its plot the road.