De La Savane (Montreal Metro)

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De La Savane

Inaugurated	9 January 1984
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Guy de Varennes & Almas Mathieu
Platform Depth	19.4 metres
Rank	15th deepest
Traffic	701,414 entrances in 2002
Rank	Least busy
Interstation Distance	1281.69 metres to Du Collège 786.70 metres to Namur

De La Savane is a station on Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Côte-des-Neiges area of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. It was inaugurated on January 9, 1984.

The station is a normal side-platform station with an entrance at the north end. It was planned in such a way as to allow an additional entrance to be built on the other side of the Décarie Autoroute, but this has not yet happened. As it is the station with the least number of passengers (as of 2002), a redevelopment plan for the area is under discussion.

The station was designed by Guy de Varennes and Almas Mathieu. Its artworks include mural treatments in the entrance, mezzanine, and platforms by the architects, as well as a large metal sculpture by Maurice Lemieux, entitled Calcite, affixed to the wall of the mezzanine and illuminated by a light shaft.

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 the rue de la Savane, which has been known by that name since 1778 and was no doubt named for a nearby prairie or swamp (named savane in Quebec French).