Beaudry (Metro Montreal)

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View of the platforms

Beaudry is a subway station in Montreal . It is located in the arrondissement of Ville-Marie at the intersection of Boulevard De Maisonneuve and Rue Beaudry. Trains on the green line 1 run here . In 2006, 1,092,714 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the 61st place among the 68 stations of the Montreal Metro .

Building

Moving walk to Rue Sainte-Catherine

The station designed by Adalbert Niklewicz was created as a tunnel station with a rather simple design. The platform level at a depth of 25.9 meters has two side platforms . The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from station end to station start, are 378.76 meters to Berri-UQAM and 495.00 meters to Papineau . A small distribution level spans the tracks . There is no entrance on Boulevard De Maisonneuve itself. Instead, a slightly inclined moving walkway almost 100 meters long leads to the parallel rue Sainte-Catherine . There is a pavilion that was rebuilt in 1999 in a postmodern style; the design comes from the architects Béïque, Thuot, Legault . There are connections to a bus line and a night bus line of the Société de transport de Montréal .

art

New station entrance from 1999 with rainbow-colored masts

The pavilion on Rue Sainte-Catherine is adorned by six aluminum masts designed by Jacques Thibault above the entrance. These are painted in the six colors of the rainbow flag , the internationally widespread symbol of the LGBT movement. The Beaudry station is located in the middle of Village gai , Montreal's lesbian and gay district that has existed since the early 1980s.

history

The Atwater - Papineau section was opened on October 14, 1966, but the opening of the Papineau intermediate station was delayed by more than two months and did not take place until December 21, 1966. Nevertheless, it is part of the basic network of the Montreal Metro. Name giver is the Rue Beaudry, named after the wholesaler Pierre Beaudry (1774-1848), over whose property the street once ran.

Web links

Commons : Beaudry (Metro Montreal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Beaudry station - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 22, 2012 (French).
  2. ^ Station Beaudry - renseignements généraux. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 22, 2012 (French).
  3. ^ Tubes arc-en-ciel, 1999. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 22, 2012 (French).
  4. ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on February 22, 2012 (English).
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