Saint-Laurent station

Saint-Laurent 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 Green Line. The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the Metro.

For the light rail station in Ottawa, see St-Laurent station.
Saint-Laurent
Location10, boul. de Maisonneuve Est, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates45°30′39″N 73°33′53″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Connections
  Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
Depth9.1 metres (29 feet 10 inches), 56th deepest
ArchitectBrassard et Warren
History
Opened14 October 1966
Passengers
2019[1][2]2,236,601  8.2%
Rank52 of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Angrignon
Green Line

Overview

Designed by Brassard et Warren, it is a normal side platform station, built in an open cut under boul. de Maisonneuve. The station's volume contains its mezzanine and ticket hall, connected to a single entrance. This is one of the few downtown stations not to have an entrance integrated into another building, and plans for the vacant lot around the station continually surface; the current plan is for a cultural centre, including a school of contemporary dance.[4]

  • Bixi bicycle rack at the west entrance

Architecture and art

The station contains non-figurative tiled murals by noted ceramicist Claude Vermette.

Origin of the name

The station takes its name from Saint Lawrence Boulevard (in French, boulevard Saint-Laurent), a main thoroughfare of Montreal, opened and named by 1720 as the road joining Montreal to the village of Côte-Saint-Laurent, now a borough of Montreal. The latter was named for Saint Lawrence, probably by allusion to the Saint Lawrence River. Saint Lawrence Boulevard is considered the dividing line between eastern and western Montreal, and divides addresses between east and west.

Connecting bus routes
Société de transport de Montréal
Route
15 Sainte-Catherine
55 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
125 Ontario
129 Côte-Sainte-Catherine
363 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
465 Express Côte-des-Neiges[5]

Nearby points of interest

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. Saint-Laurent Metro Station
  4. Dance School
  5. "Latest bus news for September". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
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