Namur (Montreal Metro)

Namur is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the district of Côte- des-Neiges -Notre- Dame-de- Grâce at the intersection of Rue Jean -Talon Boulevard and Décarie. Here courses of the orange line 2 In 2006, 1,931,107 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 45th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by the architectural firm Labelle, Marchand et Geoffroy station was built in the form of a tunnel station and has in the middle of a spacious hall, in which the distribution level is. The architecture is functional and has no special features, so that the eyes are directed to a giant sculpture that hangs from the ceiling. The work of Pierre Système Granche is the largest and most expensive of the entire Montreal Metro. It consists of 28 rounded aluminum octahedra, the spread of anchorages made ​​on the walls as an organic mass and seem to float like a cloud. Illuminated by fluorescent lamps, they produce reflections on the tiled floor of the distributor level.

In 24.1 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 768.70 meters to 988.47 meters De La Savane and to Plamondon. There are connections to three bus lines and six night bus of the Société de transport de Montréal. In the vicinity is the Hippodrome de Montréal.

History

The opening of the station took place on 9 January 1984, together with the section Plamondon - Du Collège the orange line. It is named after the former Rue Namur, named after the city of Namur in Belgium. This road had been married several years before the station opened to the Rue Jean -Talon and renamed accordingly, yet you continued Namur established as a station name. During the planning phase, the station name Arnoldi was provided by the parallel Rue Arnoldi, which was renamed in 1980 in Rue Namur.