Vendôme station

Vendôme station is an intermodal transit station in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, near the town of Westmount.[3] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro.

Vendôme
Location5160, boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates45°28′26″N 73°36′14″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Bus operators
  Société de transport de Montréal
Connections
  Vendôme (RTM)
Construction
Depth6.1 metres (20 feet), 57th deepest
ArchitectDesnoyers, Mercure, Leziy, Gagnon, Sheppard et Gélinas
History
Opened7 September 1981
Passengers
2019[1][2]7,332,409  2.6%
Rank10 of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Côte-Vertu
Orange Line
toward Montmorency

The station connects to Exo's commuter rail network by a pedestrian tunnel, permitting access to platforms providing service on the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme and Candiac lines.

Overview
Vendôme Station platform.
Access building
The memorial plaque

The station is a normal side platform station with an entrance near the midpoint of the platforms. The main entrance is located on De Maisonneuve Boulevard and another entrance is located in the bus loop. The structure sits directly above the platforms and includes and surrounds the sunken mezzanine. It is the network's deepest station without escalators or moving sidewalks.

The station was designed by the firm of Desnoyers, Mercure, Leziy, Gagnon, Sheppard et Gélinas. It contains a stained-glass window and stainless steel sculpture by important Quebec artist Marcelle Ferron. It also contains a plaque commemorating Jean Descaris, a 17th-century pioneer, and his descendant Alphonse Décarie, on whose land Vendôme and Villa-Maria Metro stations were built. The adjacent train station is in Fare Zone 1.[4]

The station is equipped with the MétroVision information screens which displays news, commercials, and the time till the next train.

A short tunnel under the railway tracks links this Metro station to the new McGill University Health Centre. Initially, the tunnel provided access only to a secondary entrance building on the hospital campus, with a door between the tunnel and the underground parking garage kept locked; however, the access to the underground parking was later opened to the public and pedestrian paths through the garage provided, offering indoor access from the metro to the hospital. Although the secondary entrance building has an elevator, the tunnel is not wheelchair accessible, with only stair access to the metro and commuter trains.[5]

In fall 2017, construction began on another entrance to the station, located east of the bus loop. This will offer a wheelchair-accessible direct connection between the metro station, the commuter train platforms, and the hospital via a pedestrian tunnel. The choice to construct a second access was made because retrofitting the existing access was deemed prohibitively expensive. The project is expected to be completed in 2020.[6]

Origin of the name

This station is named for avenue de Vendôme, in turn possibly named for the French Dukes of Vendôme.

History

Originally, two stations were supposed to be built between Place-Saint-Henri and Villa-Maria: Northcliffe and Westmount. However, opposition from Westmount residents as well as instability in the underlying rock formation forced their consolidation into one station, with the result that the tunnel between Vendôme and Place-Saint-Henri is the longest on the Island of Montreal.

Exo station
Vendôme
Location5160 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec[7]
Operated byExo
Platforms1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks3
Connections
  Vendôme (Montreal Metro)
  STM transit bus service
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
ParkingNone[7]
Bicycle facilitiesNone[7]
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone1 [7]
WebsiteVendome Station (RTM)
History
Opened1983
Passengers
2019[8]1,581,800 Vaudreuil-Hudson
269,500 Saint-Jérôme
611,200 Candiac
2,462,500 Total (Exo)
Services
Preceding station Exo Following station
Montréal-Ouest
toward Hudson
 Vaudreuil–Hudson Lucien-L'Allier
Terminus
Montréal-Ouest
toward Saint-Jérôme
 Saint-Jérôme
Montréal-Ouest
toward Candiac
 Candiac

Vendôme station is a commuter rail station operated by Exo in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, and is served by the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme and Candiac Lines. The station is connected by a pedestrian tunnel to the Montreal Metro's Vendôme station.

The station originally had two tracks (and two side platforms), but in 2015, a third track running between Montreal West and Downtown Montreal's Lucien-L'Allier station was added for improved service, and platform 2 was rebuilt as a wider island platform so trains running on the new track could call at the station as well.[9]

The station is in the ARTM's Fare Zone 1.[7]

Connecting bus routes
Société de transport de Montréal
Route
17 Décarie
24 Sherbrooke
37 Jolicoeur
63 Girouard
90 Saint-Jacques
102 Somerled
104 Cavendish
105 Sherbrooke
124 Victoria
356 Lachine/YUL Aéroport/Des Sources
371 Décarie
420 Express Notre-Dame de Grâce

Nearby points of interest
  • Complexe de santé Reine-Élisabeth
  • Centre Saint-Raymond

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. Vendôme Metro Station
  4. Gare Vendôme
  5. http://globalnews.ca/news/2063013/new-vendome-muhc-tunnel-open/
  6. "Projet Vendôme: mission accessibilité". stm.info. Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  7. Gare Vendôme
  8. Exo (2020-06-17). Réponse à votre demande d'accès à l'information (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 2020-25.

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