Lucien-L'Allier station (Montreal Metro)

Lucien-L'Allier station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[3] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Orange Line.

For the commuter rail terminus with the same name, see Lucien-L'Allier station (Exo).
Lucien-L'Allier
Location955, rue Lucien-L'Allier, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates45°29′42″N 73°34′16″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Connections
  Société de transport de Montréal
  Lucien-L'Allier station (Exo)
Construction
Depth27.1 metres (88 feet 11 inches), 3rd deepest
ArchitectDavid, Boulva & Cleve
History
Opened28 April 1980
Passengers
2019[1][2]2,526,024  10.4%
Rank47 of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Côte-Vertu
Orange Line
toward Montmorency

Overview
Benches at Lucien-L'Allier station

The station, planned under the name "Aqueduc",[4] was designed by the firm of David, Boulva & Cleve. A sculptural grille by Jean-Jacques Besner covering a ventilation shaft is the only artwork. The station is a normal side platform station, with a mezzanine on its eastern end; this is connected to the exit by an extremely deep open shaft. Passengers have to descend the greatest distance to reach the platforms of any station in Montreal (only Charlevoix and Berri-UQAM have deeper platforms, but those stations also have additional platforms that are shallower.)

The station is intermodal with the Réseau de transport métropolitain (RTM)'s commuter train lines; the entrance is connected by an enclosed walkway to Lucien-L'Allier station, a station on the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme, and Candiac lines. That train station was built as part of the Bell Centre; it replaced the former Gare Windsor and was initially called Terminus Windsor, but was renamed for the Metro station in order to reduce confusion with the still-extant former station. It is also connected to Montreal's underground city.

Origin of the name

This station is named for Lucien L'Allier Street, whose name was changed from rue de l'Aqueduc in order to commemorate Lucien L'Allier, chief engineer for the initial network of the Metro, as well as for the construction of Saint Helen's Island and Notre Dame Island for Expo 67. He had died while the station was under construction. A plaque in the station commemorates him.

Connecting bus routes
Société de transport de Montréal
Route
36 Monk
107 Verdun
150 René-Lévesque
178 Pointe-Nord/Île-des-Soeurs
350 Verdun/LaSalle
355 Pie-IX
358 Sainte-Catherine, Westbound
364 Sherbrooke/Joseph-Renaud
410 Express Notre-Dame
420 Express Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
430 Express Pointe-aux-Trembles
465 Express Côte-des-Neiges (starting August 26, 2019)[5]
480 Express Du Parc (starting August 26, 2019)[5]
715 Vieux Montreal/Vieux Port
747 Montreal-Trudeau/Downtown

Nearby points of interest

Connected via the underground city

Other

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. Lucien-L'Allier Metro Station
  4. Aqueduc
  5. "Latest bus news for September". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
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