Mont-Royal (Montreal Metro)

Mont -Royal is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the arrondissement of Le Plateau -Mont -Royal at the intersection of Rue Berri and Avenue du Mont -Royal. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 4,305,252 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 17th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by Victor Prus station was built as a tunnel station and is designed relatively sober. From the manner of a bridge constructed distribution level from which an escalator to the single output. This is located on the surface in a pavilion of steel and concrete. The walls are lined with brown brick in various shades. Durchbrochen this pattern of 32 " seams " from casted aluminum, from which protrude cube and bar-shaped elements. A design flaw is the lack of ventilation so that the air flow generated by the incoming train is above average violent.

In 13.4 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 932.10 meters to 499.60 meters to Sherbrooke and Laurier. There are connections to three bus routes and two night bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal.

Art

The building behind the entrance pavilion was designed artistically in 2000 as part of an upgrade program. In its facade, the artist group Les Industries perdus added with bricks of the poem Tango de Montréal Gérald Godin. It is of the immigrants in the morning, take the Metro to work and keep the city running.

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 Mont -Royal is part of the backbone of the Montreal Metro. It is named the Avenue du Mont -Royal. This leads to the Parc du Mont -Royal and the Montreal Mont Royal mountain that dominates the city center of Montreal.