Bonaventure (Montreal Metro)

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Bonaventure

Inaugurated	13 February 1967
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Victor Prus
Platform Depth	22.6 metres
Rank	11th deepest
Traffic	6,193,269 entrances in 2002
Rank	10th busiest
Interstation Distance	530.60 metres to Lucien-L'Allier 392.60 metres to Square-Victoria

Bonaventure is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the borough of Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal.

It was inaugurated on February 13, 1967, four months after most of the initial network. It served as the western terminus of the Orange Line for 14 years until the extension to Place-Saint-Henri was opened in 1981.

Designed by Victor Prus, the metro station is a normal side-platform station, built cut-and-cover in order to provide a large space for the heavily trafficked mezzanine. As a key part of the underground city, the mezzanine has ticket barriers on either side, in order to allow pedestrians to pass from one end of the station to the other. Bridges over the rails below the mezzanine level allow passengers to cross from one platform to the other.

Until 1992, the station had only one outdoor entrance, in front of Windsor Station; two additional accesses led directly to Place Bonaventure and Gare Centrale (Central Station) on one end, and the Château Champlain and Place du Canada on the other. When 1000 de La Gauchetière was built directly above the station, additional accesses were added to the office tower and the Downtown Terminus (metropolitan bus terminal for Réseau de transport de Longueuil and South Shore buses) within it, as well as a street entrance on the western side of the building on Cathédrale Street and improved access to Central Station and Place Bonaventure.

The station is intermodal with the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT)'s commuter train lines, through its underground access to Central Station, a station on the Montreal/Deux-Montagnes and Montreal/Mont-Saint-Hilaire lines. There is also underground access to the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station.

1 Origin of the name
2 Connecting bus routes
3 Address of entrances
4 Nearby points of interest
- 4.1 Connected via the underground city
- 4.2 Other
5 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for Place Bonaventure, a major commercial complex containing businesses, the Hilton Hotel, and the Société de transport de Montréal's headquarters. This was named for Bonaventure Station, a former station on the Grand Trunk Railway, which in turn was named for its location on Saint Bonaventure Street, now Saint Jacques Street. All derive their name from St. Bonaventure, a 13th-century Italian philosopher and mystic.

[edit] Connecting bus routes

[edit] Regular routes

36 Monk
61 Wellington
74 Bridge
75 De la Commune
107 Verdun
168 Cité-du-Havre
420 Express Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

[edit] Night routes

none

[edit] Metropolitan routes

Longueuil RTL: 5, 15, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 42, 44, 45(Express Panama), 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 59, 86, 87, 115, 132, 142, 150
AMT #90 - Express TCV
CIT Le Richelain
CIT Vallée-du-Richelieu
CIT Chambly-Richelieu-Carignan
CIT Roussillon
CIT Sud-Ouest
CIT Haut-Richelieu
CIT Haut-Saint-Laurent
Ville de Sainte-Julie
Ville de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

[edit] Address of entrances

Peel entrance: 1166, West La Gauchetière Street, at Stanley
Cathedral entrance: 955, Cathedral Street, at La Gauchetière (on the side of 1000 de La Gauchetière)