Du Collège station

Du Collège station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Saint-Laurent in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[3] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Orange Line. It opened on January 9, 1984, and replaced Plamondon station as the western terminus of the line until Côte-Vertu station opened in 1986.

Du Collège
Location1490, rue Du Collège & 450, rue Ouimet, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates45°30′32″N 73°40′27″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Connections
  Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
Depth17.1 metres (56 feet 1 inch), 26th deepest
Disabled accessYes
ArchitectGilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand
History
Opened9 January 1984
Rebuilt2015-18
(north exit)
Passengers
2019[1][2]3,187,169  12.2%
Rank38 of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro   Following station
Terminus
Orange Line
toward Montmorency

Overview

The station is a normal side platform station with an entrance at either end. The southern entrance is located in a bus loop.

The station was designed by Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand, and contains several artworks. The northern entrance contains four stained-glass windows, one by Lyse Charland Favretti on the theme of education and three by Pierre Osterrath on the borough of Saint-Laurent, its agricultural past, and its future. The southern entrance contains another stained-glass window by Favretti representing the borough's aeronautics industry, as well as an abstract relief in brick by Aurelio Sandonato. The station's best-known architectural feature, however, is an Ionic column in the northern mezzanine.

In May 2018, elevators were inaugurated at the station, making it fully accessible.[4]

Origin of the name

This station is named for the rue du Collège, whose name commemorates the nearby Cégep de Saint-Laurent, inaugurated as a college in 1847 and turned into a Cégep in 1968.

Connecting bus routes
Société de transport de Montréal
Route
17 Décarie
72 Alfred-Nobel
73 Dalton
76 McArthur
117 O'Brien
128 Ville-Saint-Laurent
175 Griffith/Saint-François
202 Dawson
220 Kieran
371 Décarie
378 Sauvé/Côte-Vertu/Mtl-Trudeau
380 Henri-Bourassa
382 Pierrefonds/St-Charles
409 Express Des Sources
460 Express Métropolitaine

Nearby points of interest
  • Vanier College
  • Cégep de Saint-Laurent
  • Promenade de Vieux Saint-Laurent
  • Saint-Laurent Museum of Art
  • former Saint-Laurent Postal Station
  • former Saint-Laurent Police Station
  • Saint-Laurent Public Library
  • Saint-Laurent Municipal Courthouse
  • Montreal Fire Station 73
  • Saint-Laurent City Hall

References
  1. 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.
  2. Société de transport de Montréal (2019-08-08). Achalandage du métro mensuel, station par station (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2019.197.
  3. Du College metro station
  4. "The new elevators at du College Métro Station are now in service". @stminfo. Twitter. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
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