Namur (Montreal Metro)

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Namur
Inaugurated	January 9, 1984
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Labelle, Marchand et Geoffroy
Platform Depth	24.1 metres
Rank	7th deepest
Traffic	1,885,727 entrances in 2002
Rank	47th busiest
Interstation Distance	768.70 metres to De La Savane 988.47 metres to Plamondon

Namur is a station on Orange Line 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. A redevelopment plan for the area is under discussion.

The station was designed by the firm of Labelle, Marchand et Geoffroy. The station's mezzanine contains a giant suspended illuminated aluminum sculpture, entitled Système, by noted Quebec artist Pierre Granche.

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for rue Namur, the former name for a portion of rue Jean-Talon; the road had been renamed by the time the station was opened, so a nearby road (rue Arnoldi) was renamed Namur in 1980 to allow the station to keep its name. Namur is a city and province in Belgium.

[edit] Connecting bus routes

[edit] Regular routes

[edit] Night routes

[edit] Address of station entrance

• 7405, boul. Décarie, at rue Jean-Talon.

[edit] Nearby main intersections

• boul. Décarie / rue Jean Talon

[edit] Nearby points of interest

• Décarie Autoroute
• Hippodrome de Montréal
• Dollar Cinema
• Gibeau Orange Julep
• Decarie Square Mall
• Wal Mart

[edit] External links

• Société de transport de Montréal - official web page of the station
• Namur metro station geo location
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com
• Parking (Métroparc)