Cote-Vertu (Metro Montreal)

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View of one of the platforms

Côte-Vertu is a subway station in Montreal . It is located in the Saint-Laurent arrondissement at the intersection of Boulevard de la Côte-Vertu and Boulevard Décarie. It is the north-western terminus of the orange line 2 . In 2006, 6,536,877 passengers used the station, which corresponds to the 6th place out of a total of 68 stations on Metro Montreal . The neighboring bus station generates a large part of the traffic volume .

Building

Entrance pavilion

The station designed by the architects Jodoin, Lamarre, Pratte, & Co and Cayouette & Saia was created in the form of a tunnel station . While the walls are clad with terracotta tiles, the floors are made of granite and sandstone slabs. The stairways to the distribution level are rather narrow and sometimes overloaded during peak times. The reason for this is that Côte-Vertu was not intended as a terminus in the original plans, but so far there has been no further extension of the route. There are a total of three entrance pavilions that were built from brown bricks.

The platform level with two side platforms is 17.7 meters deep . The distance to the neighboring station Du Collège , measured from station end to station start, is 777.24 meters. A bus station has existed since 2005 and is operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport . The terminus Côte-Vertu is divided into two parts: 17 bus lines and five night bus lines run by Société de transport de Montréal run at the northern exit of the metro , at the southern exit three bus lines run by Société de transport de Laval and one express line run by CIT La Presqu'Île.

art

L'Homo urbanus

In the connecting tunnel above the tracks, there are two large-format, mutually complementary murals by Yves Trudeau. The work négatif positif is made of chrome steel on wooden fittings and symbolizes rock walls that are exposed by a gap. The bumps on one side of the corridor are reflected in the depressions on the other side - and vice versa. A yellow stripe runs through both structures, an allusion to the Ariadne thread .

In the northernmost entrance pavilion is the installation L'Homo urbanus (“The City Man”) by Éric Lamontagne: a mirror to which - similar to insect collections - photographic images of various people are attached with needles. The figures turn their backs on the viewer, while the faces can be seen in the reflection.

history

The station and the westernmost section of the orange line opened on October 27, 1986, together with the short section from Du Collège. In the medium term, the line is to be extended further north-west to Poirier and Bois-Franc. It is named after the Boulevard de la Côte-Vertu. This name goes back to a field name in the 18th century, which at that time was Notre-Dame-de-Vertu (Our Lady of Virtue).

Web links

Commons : Côte-Vertu (Montreal Metro)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Station Côte-Vertu - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  2. ^ Station Côte-Vertu - renseignements généraux. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  3. ^ Relief, negatif positif, 1983. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  4. ↑ L'Homo urbanus, 2005. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
  5. ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on April 23, 2012 (English).
  6. ↑ Plan de transport, le métro. City of Montreal, 2008, accessed April 23, 2012 (French).
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Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′ 51.3 "  N , 73 ° 40 ′ 58.1"  W.