Saint-Laurent (Montreal Metro)

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Saint-Laurent is a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is in downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville-Marie. It was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the metro.

Designed by Brassard et Warren, it is a normal side-platform station, built in an open cut under boul. de Maisonneuve. The station's volume contains its mezzanine and ticket hall, connected to a single entrance. This is one of the few downtown stations not to have an entrance integrated into another building, and plans for the vacant lot around the station continually surface; the current plan is for a cultural centre, including a school of contemporary dance [1].

The station contains non-figurative tiled murals by noted ceramicist Claude Vermette.

Contents 1 Origin of the name 2 Connecting bus routes 2.1 Regular STM routes 2.2 STM Night routes 3 Address of station entrance 4 Nearby main intersections 5 Nearby points of interest 6 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

The station takes its name from Saint Lawrence Boulevard (in French, boulevard Saint-Laurent), a main thoroughfare of Montreal, opened and named by 1720 as the road joining Montreal to the village of Côte-Saint-Laurent, now a borough of Montreal. The latter was named for Saint Lawrence, probably by allusion to the Saint Lawrence River. Saint Lawrence Boulevard is considered the dividing line between eastern and western Montreal, and divides addresses between east and west.

[edit] Connecting bus routes

[edit] Regular STM routes

Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
15 Sainte-Catherine	Map	Schedule
55 Boulevard Saint-Laurent (north bound only)	Map	Schedule

[edit] STM Night routes

Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
358 Sainte-Catherine	Map	Schedule
363 Boulevard Saint-Laurent (north bound only)	Map	Schedule

[edit] Address of station entrance

10, De Maisonneuve Boulevard East, at Saint Dominique Street

[edit] Nearby main intersections

[edit] Nearby points of interest

• UQAM
• Pavillon Ste-Catherine
• Ex-Centris
• Just For Laughs Museum
• Centre canadien d'études et de coopération internationale (CECI)

[edit] External links

• Société de transport de Montréal - official site
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com - photos, information, and trivia

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