Bonaventure (Montreal Metro)

Bonaventure is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie on the east side of the Place du Canada, a public square in the city center. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 6,683,849 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the sixth place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by Victor Prus station was built in an open design to create as much space for the busy concourse, which was built as a bridge structure over the platform level. This is 22.6 meters deep and has two side platforms on. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 381.60 meters to 392.60 meters and Lucien- L'Allier to Square - Victoria.

Bonaventure is considered as the most elegant of the station in 1967 completed basic network of the metro. The walls are covered with tiles in a warm brown color, it is used as a decorative element wide arc-shaped cavities embedded. Lighting is provided by large square lamps hanging from the ceiling. Until 1992, the station had only one exit to the outside. Two other expenditures led directly to the office, exhibition and hotel complex in Place Bonaventure and the main train station on one side and the Hotel Château Champlain and Place du Canada on the other side. With the construction of the skyscraper in 1000 de La Gauchetière directly above the station came in 1992 added further additions. 2009 Bonaventure was the third station of the basic network elevators.

There are connections to seven bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal. More than 70 bus routes in the suburbs of the Rive- Sud region leave from the Terminus Centre-ville. The Bonaventure Station is integrated into the sprawling Montreal underground city. Underground are available next to the complex Place Bonaventure and the skyscrapers Place Ville -Marie, 1000 de La Gauchetière and 1250 René- Lévesque, the Central Station, the former main railway station Gare Windsor, the ice hockey stadium Centre Bell as well as several hotel buildings. Also within walking distance are the underground metro stations Lucien- L'Allier, McGill and Square - Victoria. Additional points of interest include Cathedral Marie -Reine -du- Monde de Montréal and the skyscrapers Édifice Sun Life.

History

The opening of the station took place on 13 February 1967 ago, together with the short section of Square - Victoria. Bonaventure was during more than thirteen years, the western terminus of the orange line until it was extended after Place -Saint -Henri on April 28, 1980. The namesake of the station is the building complex Place Bonaventure also opened in 1967. This in turn got its name from the Gare Bonaventure, the former main railway station of the Grand Trunk Railway at Rue Bonaventure, which is now called Rue Saint -Jacques. All names go back to the St. Bonaventura. During the planning phase, the metro station was named Windsor.