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Beaudry (Montreal Metro)

Beaudry
Beaudry-Metro.jpg
Location 1255, rue Ste-Catherine Est, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates 45°31′08″N 73°33′21″W / 45.51889°N 73.55583°W / 45.51889; -73.55583Coordinates: 45°31′08″N 73°33′21″W / 45.51889°N 73.55583°W / 45.51889; -73.55583
Operated by Société de transport de Montréal
Connections
  STM buses
Construction
Depth 25.9 metres (85 feet), 4th deepest
Architect Adalbert Niklewicz
Béïque, Thout, Legault (new kiosk built in 1999)
History
Opened 21 December 1966
Traffic
Passengers 1,312,933 entrances in 2013, 61st of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro.svg Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Angrignon
Green Line

Beaudry is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. It is in Montreal's Gay Village, part of the Centre-South district. Although part of the original network of the Metro, it opened two months after the rest of the network, on December 21, 1966.

Designed by Adalbert Niklewicz, it is a normal side platform station, built in-tunnel; a transept leads to a long inclined moving sidewalk, the only one of its kind in the Metro, traversing the distance between De Maisonneuve Boulevard and Saint Catherine Street, on which the entrance is located. This moving sidewalk has been a burden to the STM because it is unique and replacement parts must be custom built.

The walls in the entrance building, ticket hall, passage to the platforms, and transept area were updated in a stylish light slate blue and stainless steel scheme. The platform is covered in a cream-and-brown tile pattern, however during the renovation in 1999 part of the walls near the exits were redone in the blue tiles and stainless steel pattern.

The station was renovated and partially redecorated in the Réno-Métro program in 1999. Part of this work included a large new glassed-in entrance building by Béïque, Thuot, and Legault; a unique part of its design are rainbow-coloured masts over the door, an homage to Montreal's large gay and lesbian neighbourhood, the Village (Village gai), which the station serves. These were created by Jacques Thibault.


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