Vendôme (Montreal Metro)

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Vendôme

Inaugurated	7 September 1981
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Desnoyers, Mercure, Leziy, Gagnon, Sheppard et Gélinas
Platform Depth	6.1 metres
Rank	57th deepest
Traffic	4,885,554 entrances in 2002
Rank	13th busiest
Interstation Distance	1407,32 metres to Villa-Maria 1450,88 metres to Place-Saint-Henri (longest on the island)

Vendôme is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. It was inaugurated on September 7, 1981.

Originally, two stations were supposed to be built between Place-Saint-Henri and Villa-Maria: Northcliffe and Westmount. However, opposition from Westmount residents as well as instability in the underlying rock formation forced their consolidation into one station, with the result that the tunnel between Vendôme and Place-Saint-Henri is the longest on the Island of Montreal.

The metro station is a normal side-platform station with an entrance at either end. The large entrance is located in a bus loop; the structure sits directly above the platforms and includes and surrounds the sunken mezzanine. It is the networks's deepest station without escalators or moving sidewalks.

The station is intermodal with the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT)'s commuter train lines; the mezzanine is connected by a tunnel to Vendôme station, a station on the Dorion-Rigaud, Blainville and Delson-Candiac lines.

The station was designed by the firm of Desnoyers, Mercure, Leziy, Gagnon, Sheppard et Gélinas. It contains a stained-glass window and stainless steel sculpture by important Quebec artist Marcelle Ferron. It also contains a plaque commemorating Jean Descaris, a 17th-century pioneer, and his descendant Alphonse Décarie, on whose land Vendôme and Villa-Maria metro stations were built.

1 Origin of the name
2 Connecting bus routes
- 2.1 Regular routes
- 2.2 Night routes
3 Address of entrances
4 Nearby points of interest
5 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for av. de Vendôme, whose namesake is uncertain. It is probably named for one or more of the Dukes of Vendôme, several of whom were important in the history of France.