Saint-Laurent (Montreal Metro)

Montreal Metro Station
Borough	Ville-Marie
City	Montreal
Opened	14 October 1966
Line	Green Line
Architect	Brassard et Warren
Artist	Claude Vermette
Platform Depth	9.1 metres
Rank	56th deepest
Traffic	1,479,884 entrances in 2006
Rank	51st of 68
Interstation Distance	354.38 metres to Place-des-Arts 336.80 metres to Berri-UQAM
Address of Entrances	10, De Maisonneuve Boulevard East
Nearby Main Intersections	De Maisonneuve Boulevard East / Saint Dominique Street

Saint-Laurent is a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is located downtown Montreal in 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.

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.

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  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

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
55 Boulevard Saint-Laurent	All-day	Map	Schedule
363 Boulevard Saint-Laurent	Overnight	Map	Schedule

Nearby points of interest

• UQAM
• Saint Laurent Boulevard
• Pavillon Ste-Catherine
• Ex-Centris
• Just for Laughs Museum
• Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI)

External links

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