Atwater (Montreal Metro)

Montreal Metro Station
Borough	Ville-Marie (Montreal)
City	Montreal and Westmount
Opened	14 October 1966
Line	Green Line
Architect	David, Boulva et Cleve
Artist	n/a
Platform Depth	7.6 metres
Rank	56th deepest
Traffic	6,445,438 entrances in 2006
Rank	8th busiest
Interstation Distance	1387.74 metres to Lionel-Groulx 681.54 metres to Guy-Concordia
Address of Entrances	3015, de Maisonneuve Boulevard 4001, de Maisonneuve Boulevard via Dawson College 2322 Saint Catherine Street via Place Alexis Nihon
Nearby Main Intersections	Atwater Street / Saint Catherine Street Atwater Street / de Maisonneuve Boulevard

Atwater is a station on the Green Line of the Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is located on the border between the city of Westmount and the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the metro; it was the western terminus of the Green Line until the extension to Angrignon in 1978.

Station entrance on the southeasterly corner of Atwater Avenue and Saint Catherine Street

Architecture and art

Designed by David, Boulva et Cleve, it is a normal side platform station, built in open cut under the De Maisonneuve Boulevard. It has a large mezzanine with ticket barriers on either end. It has underground city connections to the Place Alexis Nihon, Westmount Square, and Dawson College.

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

Origin of the name

This station is named for Atwater Avenue, named for Edwin Atwater (1808–1874), a municipal alderman of the district of Saint-Antoine. The street was named for him in 1871.

Connecting bus routes

Main articles: Société de transport de Montréal and List of Montreal Bus Routes

Société de transport de Montréal
Route	Service Times	Map	Schedule
15 Sainte-Catherine	All-day	Map	Schedule
57 Pointe-Saint-Charles	All-day	Map	Schedule
63 Girouard	All-day	Map	Schedule
90 Saint-Jacques	All-day	Map	Schedule
104 Cavendish	All-day	Map	Schedule
108 Bannantyne	All-day	Map	Schedule
138 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	All-day	Map	Schedule
144 Avenue Des Pins	All-day	Map	Schedule
150 René-Lévesque	All-day	Map	Schedule
350 Verdun/LaSalle	Overnight	Map	Schedule
354 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue/Downtown	Overnight	Map	Schedule
355 Pie-IX	Overnight	Map	Schedule
356 Lachine/Montreal-Trudeau/Des Sources	Overnight	Map	Schedule
358 Sainte-Catherine	Overnight	Map	Schedule
360 Avenue des Pins	Overnight	Map	Schedule
364 Sherbrooke/Joseph-Renaud	Overnight	Map	Schedule
369 Côte-des-Neiges	Overnight	Map	Schedule
371 Décarie	Overnight	Map	Schedule
376 Pierrefonds/Downtown	Overnight	Map	Schedule

Nearby points of interest

Connected via the underground city

• Place Alexis Nihon
• Westmount Square
• Dawson College

Other

• Montreal Children's Hospital
• AMC Pepsi Forum (Montreal Forum)
• Cabot Square
• Westmount city hall
• Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom
• Église Saint-Léon-de-Westmount
• Batshaw Youth & Family Centres

External links

• Atwater Station — official site
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com — photos, information, and trivia
• 2008 STM System Map
• 2008 Downtown System Map
• Metro Map