Du Collège (Montreal Metro)

Montreal Metro Station
Borough	Saint-Laurent
City	Montreal
Opened	9 January 1984
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Gilles S. Bonnetto Jacques Garand
Artist	Pierre Osterrath, Lyse Charland Favretti, Aurelio Sandonato
Platform Depth	17.1 metres
Rank	26th deepest
Traffic	2,485,918 entrances in 2002
Rank	39th busiest
Interstation Distance	777.24 metres to Côte-Vertu 1281.69 metres to De La Savane
Address of Entrances	1490, rue Du Collège 450, rue Ouimet
Nearby Main Intersections	Decarie Boulevard and Du College Street [1]

Du Collège is a station on Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is located in the borough of Saint-Laurent in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ^[2].

Opened on January 9, 1984, it replaced Plamondon station as the western terminus of the line, and so remained until the construction of Côte-Vertu station 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.

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 1974.

Connecting bus routes

Main article: Société de transport de Montréal

Main article: List of Montreal Bus Routes

Route	Service Times	Map	Schedule
Société de transport de Montréal
17 Décarie	All-day	Map	Schedule
72 Alfred-Nobel	All-day	Map	Schedule
76 McArthur	Evening only Monday-Friday	Map	Schedule
117 O'Brien	All-day	Map	Schedule
128 Ville-Saint-Laurent	All-day	Map	Schedule
175 Griffith/Saint-François	All-day Monday-Friday	Map	Schedule
202 Dawson	All-day	Map	Schedule
214 Des Sources	Rush Hour Monday-Friday	Map	Schedule
460 Métropolitaine	All-day Monday-Friday	Map	Schedule
371 Décarie	Overnight	Map	Schedule

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
• Saint-Laurent Fire Station No.1
• Saint-Laurent City Hall

References

1. ^ Du Collège Station Neighbourhood Map
2. ^ Du College metro station

External links

• Du Collège Station - official web page
• Du Collège metro station geo location
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com
• 2008 STM System Map
• Metro Map

Coordinates: 45°30′33.57″N 73°40′28.78″W / 45.509325°N 73.6746611°W / 45.509325; -73.6746611