Du Collège station
| General information | |||||||||||
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| Location | 1490, rue Du Collège & 450, rue Ouimet Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4L 2L7 Canada | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°30′32″N 73°40′27″W / 45.50889°N 73.67417°W | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Société de transport de Montréal | ||||||||||
| Connections | STM bus | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Depth | 17.1 metres (56 feet 1 inch), 26th deepest | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| Architect | Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Fare zone | ARTM: A[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 9 January 1984 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2015-18 (north exit) | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2023[2][3] | 2,533,409 23.06% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 36 of 68 | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Du Collège station (French pronunciation: [dy kɔlɛʒ]) is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Saint-Laurent in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[4] 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.
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.[5]
Côte-Vertu metro station was closed for 12 weeks from May 29 to August 22, 2021, and Du Collège temporarily served as northwestern terminus of the Orange line.
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Route | Connects to | Service times / notes |
| 17 | Décarie | Daily | |
| 72 | Alfred-Nobel | Weekdays only | |
| 73 | Dalton | Weekdays only | |
| 100 | Crémazie | Daily
Westbound only | |
| 117 | O'Brien | Daily | |
| 128 | Ville Saint-Laurent | Daily | |
| 175 | Griffith / Saint-François | Weekdays only | |
| 202 | Dawson | Daily | |
| 220 | Kieran | Only 3 weekday departures per day, weekdays only | |
| 371 ☾ | Décarie | Night service | |
| 378 ☾ | Sauvé / YUL Aéroport | Night service
Connects to Montréal–Trudeau International Airport | |
| 380 ☾ | Henri-Bourassa | Night service | |
| 382 ☾ | Pierrefonds / Saint-Charles | Night service | |
| 409 | Express Des Sources | Weekdays, peak only | |
| 460 | Express Métropolitaine | Weekdays only, westbound only
Certain trips start or end at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport | |
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
- Décarie Hot Dogs
References
- ^ "Fare Zones". Metropolitan Regional Transportation Authority. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
- ^ Société de transport de Montréal (2024-02-16). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2023 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2024.021.
- ^ Société de transport de Montréal (2023-05-25). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2022 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2023.134.
- ^ Du College metro station
- ^ "The new elevators at du College Métro Station are now in service". @stminfo. Twitter. Retrieved 25 May 2018.