Frontenac (Metro Montreal)

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View of the platforms

Frontenac is a subway station in Montreal . It is located in the arrondissement of Ville-Marie at the intersection of Rue Ontario and Rue Frontenac. Trains on the green line 1 run here . In 2006, 2,149,285 passengers used the station; this corresponds to the 42nd place among the 68 stations of the Metro Montreal .

Building

View of the entrance pavilion

The station, designed by the architects Robillard, Jetté et Beaudoin , was created as a relatively sober tunnel station with tiles in brown and beige tones. The platform level with two side platforms is located at a depth of 23.2 meters . A distribution level above provides access to long escalators to the surface. The original entrance pavilion was replaced in 1999 by a new post-modern building designed by Christian Bisson . The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from station end to station start, are 1157.57 meters to Papineau and 1003.95 meters to Préfontaine . There are connections to four bus lines and ten night bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal .

history

The green line was opened on October 14, 1966. The commissioning of the easternmost section of the basic network between Papineau and Frontenac was delayed by a little more than two months and finally took place on December 19, 1966. Frontenac was the eastern terminus of the green line for around six and a half years, until it reached Honoré on June 6, 1976 -Beaugrand was extended. The station is named after Rue Frontenac. This in turn is named after Louis de Buade, sieur de Frontenac (1622–1698), a governor of the colony of New France and godchild of the French king Louis XIII. During the planning phase, the station name Ontario was planned.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frontenac station - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 23, 2012 (French).
  2. ^ Station Papineau - renseignements généraux. metrodemontreal.com, accessed February 23, 2012 (French).
  3. ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on February 23, 2012 (English).
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Coordinates: 45 ° 31 '58.8 "  N , 73 ° 33' 9.5"  W.