De L'Église station

De L'Église
De L'Église
General information
Location	250 Rue Galt and; 133 av. de l'Église, Montreal; Quebec, Canada
Coordinates	45°27′46″N 73°34′01″W / 45.46278°N 73.56694°W
Operated by	Société de transport de Montréal
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Construction
Depth	19.8 metres (65 feet) (Honoré-Beaugrand); 25.6 metres (84 feet) (Angrignon platform), 5th deepest
Architect	Lemay et Leduc
History
Opened	3 September 1978
Passengers
	2,295,037 entrances in 2006, 40th of 68
Services

De L'Église (French; literally translated, "of the Church") 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 in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.^[1] The station opened on September 3, 1978, as part of the extension of the Green Line westward to Angrignon.

Architecture and art

Designed by Jean-Maurice Dubé, it was planned as a normal side platform station. However, during the station's construction, a cave-in of the surrounding weak Utica Shale formation made it necessary to build the station with a narrower profile. It is therefore built with stacked platforms, with the Honoré-Beaugrand platform above and Angrignon below, and both directions opening to the left instead of the usual right. There are two accesses, one in the centre and one at the western end of the station, with separate ticket halls.

The station is decorated with a series of circular motifs in ceramic tile on the lower levels and concrete bas-reliefs in the upper levels by Claude Théberge and Antoine D. Lamarche

Origin of the name

This station is named for av. de l'Église. The church in question is the Église Saint-Paul in the Côte-Saint-Paul district at the north end of the avenue. This roadway has existed since at least 1834, and became known under its present name some time after 1879.

Connecting bus routes

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Route	Service Times	Map	Schedule
12 Île-des-Soeurs	All-day before 12:00AM	Map	Schedule
37 Jolicoeur	All-day	Map	Schedule
58 Wellington	All-day	Map	Schedule
61 Wellington	All-day, Weekends before 10:00PM	Map	Schedule
350 Verdun/LaSalle	Overnight	Map	Schedule