Vendôme (Montreal Metro)

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Vendôme
Vendôme station
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 at 5160, De Maisonneuve Boulevard West at the intersection with Avenue de Vendôme in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. The station 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 connected to the Vendôme AMT station by a pedestrian tunnel, permitting access to AMT commuter rail service on the Dorion-Rigaud, Blainville-Saint-Jerome and Delson-Candiac lines.

The Vendôme metro 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. The adjacent train station is in Fare Zone 1. [1]

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[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.

[edit] Connecting public transit

[edit] Commuter rail

Main article: Vendôme (AMT)

[edit] Transit bus

Regular routes
Route Name Route Map Schedule
17 Décarie (north bound at the corner of Decarie boulevard and de Maisonneuve boulevard, south bound at the corner of Girouard Street and Upper Lachine Road) Map Schedule
24 (one block north on Sherbrooke Street West) Map Schedule
37 Jolicoeur Map Schedule
63 Girouard (one block north on Sherbrooke Street West) Map Schedule
90 Saint-Jacques Map Schedule
102 Somerled Map Schedule
104 Cavendish Map Schedule
105 Sherbrooke Map Schedule
124 Victoria Map Schedule
Night routes
Route Name Route Map Schedule
356 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (one block north on Sherbrooke Street West) Map Schedule
371 Décarie (north bound at the corner of Decarie boulevard and de Maisonneuve boulevard, south bound at the corner of Girouard Street and Upper Lachine Road) Map Schedule

[edit] Nearby points of interest

  • Complexe de santé Reine-Élisabeth
  • Centre Saint-Raymond

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gare Vendôme

[edit] External links

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