Monk (Montreal Metro)

Monk is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Le Sud -Ouest at the intersection of Boulevard Monk and Rue Allard. Here the green line trains run 1 In 2006, 1,156,323 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 59th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by the architectural firm Blais & Bélanger station was built in an open design. This resulted in a very high and extremely spacious hall. Your walls are covered at the level of the platforms with brown, rustic acting bricks. Furthermore loosen vaulted ceilings, huge semi-circular recesses and piers on the large size. The manifold layer is stretched in the form of a bridge over the tracks. On the surface, there are two smaller entrance pavilion of bricks.

In 18.3 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 844.29 meters to Angrignon and 1062.85 meters to Jolicoeur. There are two connections to bus lines and night bus of the Société de transport de Montréal.

Art

On the distributor bridge, two 6 -meter-high metal sculptures by Germain Bergeron, consisting of painted metal parts that come from recycled lighting fixtures. The work Pic et Pelle ( " pick and shovel ") provides in abstract form two construction workers in their work dar. In Quebec French is the phrase travailler au pic et à la pelle means " work hard and long ." The plan was a third figure ( a foreman ), which was not executed.

History

The opening of the station took place on 3 September 1978 in conjunction with the section Atwater - Angrignon the green line. It is named after the boulevard Monk, named after Sir James Monk (1745-1826), the chief judge was 1793-1820 Montreal.