Snowdon (Montreal Metro)

Snowdon is a metro station in Montreal. It is located in the district of Côte- des-Neiges -Notre- Dame-de- Grâce at the intersection of Chemin Queen Mary and Avenue de Westbury. Here courses of the orange line 2, Snowdon is also the western terminus of the Blue Line 5 In 2006 3,163,288 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 29th place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal; However, the numerous connecting passengers are not included in this figure.

Building

Designed by Jean -Louis Beaulieu station was built in the form of three adjacent tunnels, each with two levels. On the upper level at 19.5 meters depth keep the city away trains passing the orange line, also come here the trains of the blue line. On the lower level at 24.6 meters depth the trains stop on the orange line towards the city center, this is also where the trains leave from the blue line. This arrangement proved to be unfavorable, as most interchanges require the use of stairs. The reason for this is the lack of southern Streckenast the blue line that was included in the original plans yet.

The distances to the neighboring stations (both measured from the end station to station beginning) are as follows:

• Orange line: 693.00 meters to Côte- Sainte -Catherine and 884.41 meters to Villa -Maria
• Blue line: 959.60 meters to Côte -des- Neiges

Lead from the central distributor tunnel lit by chandeliers escalators up to the entrance hall. This is integrated into a building constructed of brick, four-story building, where offices of the Société de transport de Montréal ( STM) are located. There are two bus connections to the STM.

Art

The platforms are decorated by the mural cycle Les saisons quatres ( " The Four Seasons" ) by Claude Guite. It includes four images of 152.2 meters in length and 2.4 meters in height, each consisting of 50 colorful besprayten concrete slabs. The images Printemps ( "Spring" ), Été ( "Summer" ), Automme ( "Autumn" ) and Hiver ( "Winter" ) provide in an abstract way the foliage and the weather in each of the four seasons dar. The architect Jean- Louis Beaulieu was active and contributed artistically abstract shaped ventilation grates on as well as a similarly styled gateway to an operating input.

History

The opening of the station took place on September 7, 1981, when the section Place -Saint- Henri- Snowdon the orange line was put into operation. Just four months later, on 4 January 1982, and the section followed by Côte- Sainte -Catherine. The transfer hubs went on 4 January 1988 with the opening of the section Snowdon Parc the blue line in operation. Was postponed indefinitely extending the blue line of Snowdon from southwest to Côte -Saint -Luc, Montréal- Ouest, Lachine and the Pierre- Elliott -Trudeau airport. The namesake of the station is the district of Snowdon, named after a local landowner.