Édouard-Montpetit station

Édouard-Montpetit is a Montreal Metro station in of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[4] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Blue Line. It is located in the Côte-des-Neiges area of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce near the borough of Outremont.

Édouard Montpetit
General information
Location2030/2040, boul. Édouard-Monpetit Montreal, and 80, av. Vincent-D'Indy, Outremont, Quebec
H3T 1J2
Canada
Coordinates45°30′36″N 73°36′45″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Connections
  Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
DepthMetro: 16.6 metres (54 feet 6 inches), 26th deepest
REM: 72 metres (236 feet 3 inches)[1]
Disabled accessNo
ArchitectPatrice Gauthier
History
Opened4 January 1988
Passengers
2020[2][3]565,088  63.3%
Rank66 of 68
Services
Preceding station Montreal Metro Following station
Université-de-Montréal
toward Snowdon
 Blue Line Outremont
toward Saint-Michel
Future services
Preceding station REM Following station
Canora
toward Deux-Montagnes, Anse-à-l'Orme or Airport
 Réseau express métropolitain McGill
toward Brossard

Overview

It is a normal side platform station.

Origin of name

During planning, the station was to be named Vincent-d'Indy, but the name was ultimately changed to Édouard-Montpetit, from the street under which it lies: Édouard-Montpetit Boulevard. The boulevard in turn takes its name from Édouard Montpetit (1881–1954), a Quebec lawyer, economist and academic closely linked with the nearby Université de Montréal.

Particularities

Édouard-Montpetit station was designed to be able to provide a connection with the then-Agence métropolitaine de transport's Montreal—Deux Montagnes commuter rail line, which during the planning of the original network was to have been converted into Line 3 of the Metro. However, this never made it past the planning stage. If such a connection were implemented, high-speed elevators would run from the Metro station to the train station in the Mount Royal Tunnel, 75 metres (246 feet)[5] below. This project was resurrected again in 2016 with the Réseau express métropolitain project.

The ventilation shaft for the Mount Royal Tunnel is next to the Édouard-Montpetit Station.[5]

REM connection
The REM station under construction in November 2021.

The Edouard-Montpetit station will be connected to the Réseau express métropolitain via an interchange station in the Mount Royal Tunnel. High-speed elevators will connect the two systems through 75 metres (246 feet), making the station the deepest in Canada and the second in North America after Portland's Washington Park station (79 metres (259 feet)).[6]

Construction on the Édouard-Montpetit REM station began in July 2018.[7]

Connecting bus routes
Main article: List of Montreal Bus Routes
Société de transport de Montréal
Route
51 Boulevard Édouard-Montpetit
119 Rockland
368 Mont-Royal

Nearby points of interest

References
  1. "Édouard-Montpetit Station". REM. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  2. Société de transport de Montréal (2021-04-16). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2020 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2021.075.
  3. Société de transport de Montréal (2020-05-21). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2019 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2020.091.
  4. Édouard-Montpetit Metro Station
  5. Tunnel
  6. "A deep dive into North America's second deepest subway station".
  7. "Les travaux du REM débutent à la station Édouard-Montpetit".
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