Du Collège (Montreal Metro)

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Du Collège
Du Collège metro station
Inaugurated 9 January 1984
Line Orange Line
Architect Gilles S. Bonnetto
Jacques Garand
Platform Depth 17.1 metres
Rank 26th deepest
Traffic 2,485,918 entrances in 2002
Rank 38th busiest
Interstation Distance 777.24 metres to Côte-Vertu

1281.69 metres to De La Savane

Du Collège is a station on Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Inaugurated on January 9, 1984, it replaced Plamondon station as the western terminus of the line, and so remained until the construction of Côte-Vertu station in 1986.

The station is a normal side-platform station with an entrance at either end. The southern entrance is located in a bus loop.

The station was designed by Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand, and contains several artworks. The northern entrance contains four stained-glass windows, one by Lyse Charland Favretti on the theme of education and three by Pierre Osterrath on the borough of Saint-Laurent, its agricultural past, and its future. The southern entrance contains another stained-glass window by Favretti representing the borough's aeronautics industry, as well as an abstract relief in brick by Aurelio Sandonato. The station's best-known architectural feature, however, is an Ionic column in the northern mezzanine.

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[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for the rue du Collège, whose name commemorates the nearby Cégep de Saint-Laurent, inaugurated as a college in 1847 and turned into a Cégep in 1974.

[edit] Connecting bus routes

[edit] Regular routes

Route Name Route Map Schedule
17 Décarie (to various metro stations between Côte-Vertu Metro Station and Place Saint Henri Metro Station) Map Schedule
72 Alfred-Nobel Map Schedule
76 McArthur Map Schedule
117 O'Brien (Northbound to Du Ruisseau train station and beyound) Map Schedule
128 Ville-Saint-Laurent (Northbound to Côte-Vertu Metro Station and to Montpelier train station, southbound to Cégep de Saint-Laurent and beyond) Map Schedule
175 Griffith/Saint-François Map Schedule
202 Dawson (west bound to Dorval train station and Fairview Pointe-Claire) Map Schedule
214 Des Sources Map Schedule
460 Métropolitaine Map Schedule

[edit] Night routes

Route Name Route Map Schedule
371 Décarie Map Schedule

[edit] Address of entrances

  • Du Collège entrance: 1490, rue du Collège, at boul. Décarie
  • Cartier entrance: 450, rue Ouimet, at rue Cartier

[edit] Nearby main intersections

[edit] Nearby points of interest

  • Vanier College
  • Cégep de Saint-Laurent
  • Promenade de Vieux Saint-Laurent
  • Saint-Laurent Museum of Art
  • former Saint-Laurent Postal Station
  • former Saint-Laurent Police Station
  • Saint-Laurent Public Library
  • Saint-Laurent Municipal Courthouse
  • Saint-Laurent Fire Station No.1
  • Saint-Laurent City Hall

[edit] External links

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