Lucien-L'Allier (Montreal Metro)

Lucien- L'Allier is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie at the intersection of Rue Lucien- L'Allier and Rue Argyle. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 1,341,385 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the 54th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by the architectural firm David, Boulva & Cleveland station stands out because of the extremely large height of the walls and the vaulted ceiling. A central light shaft allows for a direct line of sight from a simple entrance pavilion down to the surface to the distribution level. The wallcovering brown bricks produces a warm tone and establishes a connection to the platform level. This is 27.1 meters deep and has two side platforms. Thus Lucien- L'Allier is situated on the third deepest station of the Montreal Metro. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 530.60 meters to 381.60 meters Georges- Vanier and to Bonaventure.

There are four bus terminals at the Société de transport de Montréal. The nearby train station Lucien- L'Allier operate from several suburban railway lines, the Agence métropolitaine de transport. The metro Lucien- L'Allier is integrated into the sprawling Montreal underground city. Underground are within walking distance next to the train station and the ice hockey stadium Centre Bell, the former main railway station Gare Windsor, 1250 René- Lévesque of skyscrapers and the Bonaventure subway station.

History

The opening of the station on 28 April 1980 in conjunction with the section between Bonaventure and Place -Saint -Henri. The namesake of the station is Rue Lucien- L'Allier. This was formerly known as Rue de l' aqueduc and was named in honor of Lucien L' Allier (1909-1978) renamed, the chief engineer of the basic network of the metro and the World Expo 67th L' Allier died when there was the station under construction; a plaque to commemorate him. During the planning phase, the station was known as the aqueduc.