Peel (Montreal Metro)

Peel is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie at the intersection of Boulevard De Maisonneuve and Rue Peel. Here the green line trains run 1 In 2006, 6,351,488 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the ninth place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal.

Building

Designed by the architectural firm Papineau, Gérin - Lajoie et Leblanc station was built in an open design. Numerous columns and beams supporting the bridge-like constructed distribution level and the ceiling. There are four outputs, which are all integrated into adjacent buildings ( three on the Boulevard De Maisonneuve and one on the Rue Stanley ). The platform level at 10.7 meters depth has two side platforms. The distances to the neighboring stations, each station measured from end to beginning station, amount to 593.14 meters to 296.52 meters Guy- Concordia and McGill to (shortest distance between stations of the entire Metro network).

There are connections to three bus lines and night bus of the Société de transport de Montréal. The station Peel is integrated into the sprawling Montreal underground city. Underground access to several office and retail buildings, shopping centers Les Cours Mont -Royal and Carrefour Industrielle - Alliance and the adjacent Metro station McGill. Additional points of interest include Sun Life Édifice skyscrapers, various buildings of McGill University and the Square Dorchester.

Art

Peel is one of the few stations in the backbone network, in which the art was involved from the beginning in the architecture and not added later. Jean -Paul Mousseau created together with Claude Vermette numerous colored ceramic discs that are embedded in walls and floors, giving the station a special character. The discs have abstract pattern in orange and blue tones. Six of these discs - one above the platforms as well as one in front of and behind the two ticket offices - have a diameter of 3.6 meters. Originally from the smaller disks with a diameter of 1.8 meters, there were 48 pieces, but after several modifications are only 31 available.

Next to the entrance on Rue Peel 2000 is on the steel sculpture Enter Space. The 5.5 meter high work of Maurice Lemieux was erected there in 1981 and consists of four elements in the form of the logo of the International Air Transport Association IATA, which had formerly based in the building.

History

The opening of the station on 14 February 1966 in conjunction with the section between Atwater and Papineau. Peel therefore part of the basic network of the Montreal Metro. The namesake of the station is Rue Peel, in turn, according to the British Prime Minister Robert Peel (1788-1850) is named.