Berri-UQAM (Metro Montreal)

Green line platforms

Berri-UQAM is a subway station in Montreal . It is located in the arrondissement of Ville-Marie at the intersection of Rue Berri and Boulevard De Maisonneuve , next to the campus of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The station is the main hub of the Montreal Metro . Here the green line 1 and the orange line 2 cross each other ; in addition, Berri-UQAM is the western terminus of yellow line 4 . In 2006, 12,053,754 passengers used the station (excluding transfer passengers), making it the busiest of the entire network.

Building

Platforms of the orange line

Yellow line platforms

The station complex, designed by the architects Longpré & Marchand , consists of a cross-shaped cavity, which was built using an open construction method at the intersection of Boulevard De Maisonneuve and Rue Berri and comprises three levels. The cavity is so extensive that massive pillars are necessary to support the streets above. The four ends of the intersection contain escalators that connect the various levels; there are also various stairs . Since 2009 the station has been partially wheelchair-accessible by means of elevators , but so far only to the orange line.

At the top is the distribution level with the turnstiles and various shops on all four sides, including the information center of the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). This is followed by the second level with the platforms of the orange line at a depth of 10.7 meters and the third level with the platforms of the green line 16.8 meters deep. From the latter, escalators and corridors lead to the 27.4 meters deep platforms of the yellow line. These do not belong to the actual station complex, but are located in a separate tunnel below the Rue Saint-Denis .

All three lines have side platforms . The distances to the neighboring stations (measured from station end to station start) are as follows:

Green line: 336.80 meters to Saint-Laurent and 378.76 meters to Beaudry
Orange Line: 720.50 meters to Champ-de-Mars and 579.10 meters to Sherbrooke
Yellow line: 2,362.10 meters to Jean-Drapeau (longest station distance of the entire metro)

There are five inputs and outputs. Those on Rue Saint-Denis, Rue Berri (two different locations) and Boulevard De Maisonneuve are integrated into other existing buildings. The only free-standing station entrance, a glass and steel pavilion designed by the architect Gaétan Pelletier and opened in 1999 , is located on Rue Sainte-Catherine . Berri-UQAM forms the center of a segment of the Montreal underground city . Pedestrian tunnels offer weather-protected access to various buildings, including the university, the Grande Bibliothèque and a hotel. There are connections to five bus lines and two night bus lines of the STM, and the Gare d'autocars de Montréal can be reached via a pedestrian tunnel (terminal for intercity buses).

art

The mural Hommage aux fondateurs de la ville de Montréal

Mère Émilie Gamelin

Several works of art are exhibited in the station. The largest is a wall painting made of glass and acrylic paint by Pierre Gaboriau and Pierre Osterrath called Hommage aux fondateurs de la ville de Montréal (homage to the founders of the city of Montreal). It is located above the east portal of the green line tunnel and was installed in 1969 as a gift from the Caisses Desjardins cooperative bank . In abstract form, it depicts the city founders Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière , Jeanne Mance and Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve .

Three large-format murals by Robert LaPalme, the only oil paintings on canvas in the metro, adorn the main entrance to the platforms of the yellow line. They were originally located at the entrance to Expo 67 and were later transferred to the metro station at the personal request of Mayor Jean Drapeau . The paintings represent the three themes of the World's Fair: Science , Divertissement (entertainment) and Culture . Together with Georges Lauda, LaPalme also created a bronze plaque in the middle of the distribution level, which indicates the continuity of public transport in Montreal, from the first horse-drawn tram in 1861 to the opening of the metro in 1966.

The bronze statue Mère Émilie Gamelin by the sculptor Raoul Hunter has stood in the entrance pavilion on Rue Sainte-Catherine since 2000 . It commemorates the 200th birthday of the canonized founder of the order Émilie Gamelin and shows her distributing food to the needy in the city. In the corridor to the platforms of the yellow line, the "Peace Wall" (Mur de la paix) created by Cécile Dion in 2007 can be found, consisting of inscriptions of the word "Peace" (paix) in 34 languages.

history

The station opened on October 14, 1966, when the green and orange lines started operating. The station part of the yellow line was opened on March 31, 1967.

The station is named after the rue Berri, which has existed at least since 1663 and is possibly named after the landowner Simon Després dit Berry, and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) founded in 1969 . At the beginning, the station was named Berri-de Montigny (at that time the UQAM campus did not yet exist), with the second part of the name referring to the Testard de Montigny landowning family. The original plan was to name the station Berri-de Maisonneuve , as the Rue de Montigny had already disappeared when the Boulevard De Maisonneuve was built. Nine years after the completion of the UQAM campus, the station was given its current name on January 1, 1988.

Web links

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

STM website about the Berri-UQAM station (French)
Detailed information on the Berri-UQAM station (French)

Individual evidence

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↑ Le mur de la paix. In: Présences du littéraire dans l'espace public canadien. Concordia University, accessed February 13, 2012 (French).
^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on February 13, 2012 (English).

Previous station		Next station
Saint-Laurent ← Angrignon	Line 1 (green)	Beaudry Honoré-Beaugrand →
Champ-de-Mars ← Côte-Vertu	Line 2 (orange)	Sherbrooke Montmorency →
-	Line 4 (yellow)	Jean-Drapeau Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke →

45.51532 -73.56108Coordinates: 45 ° 30'55.2 " N , 73 ° 33'39.9" W.

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