Henri-Bourassa (Metro Montreal)

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The original platforms

Henri-Bourassa is a subway station in Montreal . It is located in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville arrondissement at the intersection of Boulevard Henri-Bourassa and Rue Berri. Trains on orange line 2 run here . In 2006, 8,308,268 passengers used the station, making it the third most frequently used of the 68 stations on Metro Montreal . This high volume of traffic is mainly generated by the neighboring bus station.

Building

New platform towards Laval

Henri-Bourassa consists of two completely differently designed station sections. The older part was designed by J. Warunkiewicz. It consists of two side platforms connected by a tunnel with two entrances on the Boulevard Henri-Bourassa and with the bus station. The walls are covered with terracotta . At the beginning of the 1980s, a second entrance, closer to the platforms, was built on Rue Berri, designed by André Léonard and Claude Leclerc.

The younger part of the station was built almost forty years after the older one, according to plans by Richard Fortin. Since every second train turns in Henri-Bourassa during rush hour , an expansion of the station was necessary. For this purpose, a separate tunnel was built, which is used by trains to the neighboring town of Laval and has a single side platform. The walls of the new section of the station are clad with slate-gray tiles and stainless steel, a continuous orange strip of light announces the arrival of the trains.

All three platforms are 18.3 meters deep. The distances to the neighboring stations, measured from station end to station start, are 771.60 meters to Sauvé and 1101.60 meters to Cartier . On both sides of the Boulevard Henri-Bourassa is the Terminus Henri-Bourassa , a bus station operated by the Agence métropolitaine de transport . The southern part is used by eleven bus routes and three night bus routes of the Société de transport de Montréal . The northern part was once the starting point for numerous lines to the suburbs of the Rive-Nord region , but lost its importance significantly after the metro was extended in 2007. Today five lines of the Société de transport de Laval and two lines of the MRC Les Moulins still operate .

art

Réveil de la conscience par la solitude
Les enfants in la ville
.98

In the entrance hall on the north side of Boulevard Henri-Bourassa there is a 5.2 m high and 7.3 m wide mural made of cast concrete. The work Réveil de la conscience par la solitude (“Awakening Consciousness through Solitude”) by Jacques Huet depicts the development of two characters from negative to positive. It also serves as a fire wall between the entrance hall and the neighboring administration building of the government.

The mural Les enfants dans la ville (“The children in the city”) adorns the eastern distribution level. As a contribution to the International Year of the Child , the City Administration's Sports and Leisure Department commissioned a work of art. 330 Montreal schoolchildren created a picture each from modeling clay on the subjects of buildings, people, parks and traffic. The forms were then poured with concrete and put together to form a 11.1 m wide and 2.9 m high wall relief.

André Léonard created two more murals for the entrance hall on Rue Berri, made of bricks and terracotta. The 6.1 m wide and 3 m high work Le potager ("The Vegetable Garden") shows rows of vegetable patches overlooked by trees from a bird's eye view. Les vents ("The Wind") is 7.5 m wide and 5.5 m high. It indicates the wind that blows over the city.

In connection with the construction of the third platform, the Swiss Axel Morgenthaler created the futuristic light sculpture .98 in one of the access corridors. The work comprises two sections at both ends of a staircase, each consisting of 98 LED lights. These produce abstract and constantly changing light patterns, as they would appear on a monitor with 98 pixels .

history

The station opened on October 14, 1966, along with the section from Place-d'Armes . Henri-Bourassa is part of the basic network of the Montreal Metro and was the eastern terminus of the orange line for more than four decades. From May 15 to August 22, 2004, the station was closed to allow the construction of the extension to the neighboring town of Laval and a third platform. The section between Henri-Bourassa and the new terminus Montmorency was opened on April 28, 2007. The station is named after the Boulevard Henri-Bourassa. This is named after the influential politician and publisher Henri Bourassa (1868–1952), the founder of the Le Devoir newspaper .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Station Henri-Bourassa - historique et faits diverse. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 11, 2012 (French).
  2. ^ Station Henri-Bourassa - renseignements généraux. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 11, 2012 (French).
  3. ↑ Réveil de la conscience par la solitude, 1983. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 11, 2012 (French).
  4. ↑ Les enfants dans la ville, 1979-80. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 11, 2012 (French).
  5. ↑ Le potager, 1980. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 11, 2012 (French).
  6. ^ Les vents, 1980. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 11, 2012 (French).
  7. ↑ .98, 2007. In: L'art du métro. metrodemontreal.com, accessed April 11, 2012 (French).
  8. ^ Montreal Metro. urbanrail.net, accessed on April 11, 2012 (English).
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Coordinates: 45 ° 33 ′ 18.8 "  N , 73 ° 40 ′ 5.6"  W.