Cartier (Metro Montreal)

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View of the platforms

Cartier is a subway station in Laval , a suburb of Montreal . It is located in the Pont-Viau district at the intersection of Boulevard Cartier and Boulevard des Laurentides. Trains on Orange Line 2 of Metro Montreal run here .

Building

The station designed by Richard Fortin was built using an open construction method with two side platforms . The architect chose the simplest possible floor plan. The main building next to the bus station has the shape of a right triangle, with the cathetus parallel to the streets and the hypotenuse parallel to the tracks. This brings the subsurface and the environment into a context. The entrances are at the tips of the triangle. The middle part, under which the escalators are located, deepens towards the ground and opens into a garden. A second entrance pavilion is on the opposite side of the intersection.

The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from station end to station start, are 1101.60 meters to Henri-Bourassa and 2073.60 meters to De La Concorde . Immediately next to the station is a bus station, the Terminus Cartier operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) . From there, 21 bus routes and one night bus route operated by Société de transport de Laval and two bus routes operated by CIT Laurentides. Some long-distance bus routes have their starting point here, and AMT also maintains a park-and-ride facility with 599 parking spaces.

art

Suspendus designs

Two steel sculptures tower above the garden in front of the main building. The work L'homme est un roseau pensant III (“Man is a thinking reed”) by the Polish artist Jacek Jarnuskiewicz forms a vertical contrast to the horizontal spread of the building complex, while the wickerwork relates to the triangular shape. It is reminiscent of the reeds of the formerly drained bog, but can also be interpreted as a dragonfly or heron. In the hall of the second entrance pavilion, the sculpture Dessins suspendus (“Hanging Drawings”) hangs from the ceiling , consisting of three semicircular metal elements in the shape of flowers or propellers.

history

The station opened on April 28, 2007, together with the Henri-Bourassa- Montmorency section of the orange line. It is named after the Boulevard Cartier, named after the politician George-Étienne Cartier (1814–1873), one of the fathers of the Confederation . The decision to build the second entrance pavilion was made while the construction work was still in progress. This was opened on May 22, 2009.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cartier station - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 28, 2012 (French).
  2. ↑ Plan du réseau. (PDF; 7.7 MB) Société de transport de Laval, accessed on November 22, 2017 (French).
  3. ↑ L'homme est un roseau pensant III, 2007. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 28, 2012 (French).
  4. ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on April 28, 2012 (English).
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Coordinates: 45 ° 33 '37.4 "  N , 73 ° 40' 54.9"  W.