Metro Line 2 (Montreal)

Line 2
Route length:	30.0 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	750  =
Sweeping and parking system Montmorency De La Concorde ( AMT ) De la Concorde Cartier Rivière des Prairies Parking facility Sweeping system Cote-Vertu Henri-Bourassa You college Sauvé De la Savane Main workshop Namur Plateau d'Youville Crémazie Plamondon Jarry Cote-Sainte-Catherine Jean-Talon Snowdon Beaubien to line 5 Rosemont Villa Maria Vendôme Laurier Vendôme (AMT) Mont-Royal Place-Saint-Henri Sherbrooke Lionel Groulx Berri-UQAM to line 1 to line 1 Georges-Vanier Champ-de-Mars Lucien-L'Allier Place-d'Armes Bonaventure Square Victoria OACI Mont Royal tunnel

The Line 2 , also called "Orange Line" ( French Ligne orange ), is one of four metro -lines of the Montreal Metro . It is 30.0 km long and has 31 stations. It was put into operation in stages between 1966 and 2007.

The U-shaped line runs from Laval first southeast to downtown Montreal, then southwest and finally northwest. In Laval the Laval des-Rapides area is accessed, in Montreal , the subway line passes through the districts Ahuntsic-Cartierville , Villeray-Saint-Michel Parc extension , Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie , Le plateau-Mont Royal , Ville-Marie , Le Sud-Ouest , Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Saint-Laurent . You can change at the Jean-Talon and Snowdon stations to line 5 (blue line), at the Berri-UQAM station to line 1 (green line) and to line 4 (yellow line) and again to line 1 at the Lionel-Groulx station .

history

On October 14, 1966, the section between the stations Henri-Bourassa and Place-d'Armes was opened, which thus belongs to the basic network of the metro. The completion of smaller sections was delayed by a few months. On February 6, 1967, the extension from Place-d'Armes to Square-Victoria-OACI followed , a week later from there to Bonaventure .

Already at that time it was planned to extend the route further to the north-west, but massive cost overruns in the preparations for the 1976 Summer Olympics led to delays of several years. In order to save costs, three planned stations (Poirier, Bois-Franc, De Salaberry) and a workshop at the end of the route were canceled. The west branch was put into operation in several stages in the 1980s. It all started on April 28, 1980 with the Bonaventure - Place-Saint-Henri section . From there, the route was extended to Snowdon on September 7, 1981 , to Côte-Sainte-Catherine on January 4, 1982 , to Plamondon on June 29, 1982 , to Du Collège on January 9, 1984 and finally on October 27, 1986 to the western terminus of Côte-Vertu .

After an interruption of over two decades, the east branch was extended by three stations beyond Henri-Bourassa. These are all in the city of Laval and on the Île Jésus . The opening of this 5.2 km long section took place on April 28, 2007.

Expansion planning

In the medium term, the orange line is to be extended further north-west from Côte-Vertu. This extension should include two new stations, Poirier and Bois-Franc. The latter would create a traffic hub with the existing station of the AMT suburban railway to Deux-Montagnes .

Gilles Vaillancourt , the mayor of Laval, proposed in 2007 that the two ends of the orange line be connected. This would create a ring line with six additional stations (three each in Montreal and Laval). In 2011 Vaillancourt presented the urban development program ÉvoluCité , which explicitly includes the expansion of the metro in the city of Laval. The plan is to close the gap to a ring line and a short branch in a northerly direction to the Carrefour Laval shopping center .

Web links

• Description of line 2 on metrodemontreal.com (French)
• Official website of the metro operator (French / English)
• Metro Montreal on urbanrail.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Plan de transport, le métro. City of Montreal, 2008, accessed February 8, 2012 (French). 
2. ^ Métro et budget. Radio Canada, December 10, 2007, accessed February 8, 2012 (French). 
3. ↑ Métro: Laval réclame cinq nouvelles stations. (No longer available online.) Courrier Laval on May 26, 2011, archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; Retrieved February 8, 2012 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.