Jarry (Montreal Metro)

Jarry is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Villeray -Saint -Michel- Parc- Extension at the intersection of Rue Jarry and Rue Berri. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 2,801,232 passengers used the station, which is the 31 rank among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by the architectural firm Lemoyne, Bland, Edwards & Shine station was built in the form of a tunnel station. The walls of the platforms are made of gray ceramic discs, the floors of brown bricks. Designed visually more interesting is the access tunnel at the north end. It has a vaulted ceiling with diamentenförmigen elements, which are illuminated by fluorescent tubes. The painted in bright primary colors entrance area is integrated into the ground floor of a residential block.

In 12.2 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 977.10 meters to 825.60 meters and Jean -Talon to Crémazie. There are two connections to bus lines and night bus of the Société de transport de Montréal. Nearby is the Parc Jarry.

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 Jarry part of the basic network of the Montreal Metro. A little more than four years earlier, on May 23, 1962 took place here the groundbreaking ceremony for the metro system as a whole. It is named after the Rue Jarry, named after Bernard Bleignier dit Jarry. This was in 1700 awarded a plot of land on which later the village of Saint -Laurent was born.