Bonaventure (Montreal Metro)

Bonaventure

Location

955, rue de la Cathédrale, Montreal
Quebec, Canada

Coordinates

45°29′53″N 73°34′02″W / 45.49806°N 73.56722°WCoordinates: 45°29′53″N 73°34′02″W / 45.49806°N 73.56722°W

Operated by

Société de transport de Montréal

Connections

Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)

Construction

Depth

22.6 metres (74 feet 2 inches), 11th deepest

Architect

Victor Prus

History

Opened

13 February 1967

Traffic

Passengers

7,928,139 entrances in 2011, 4th of 68

Services

Preceding station		Montreal Metro		Following station
Lucien-L'Allier toward Côte-Vertu		Orange Line		Square-Victoria-OACI toward Montmorency

Bonaventure is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is located in the borough of Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

It opened on February 13, 1967, four months after most of the initial network. It served as the western terminus of the Orange Line for 14 years until the extension to Place-Saint-Henri was opened in 1981.

Designed by Victor Prus, the station is a normal side platform station, built by cut-and-cover in order to provide a large space for the heavily trafficked mezzanine. As a key part of the underground city, the mezzanine has ticket barriers on either side, in order to allow pedestrians to pass from one end of the station to the other. Bridges over the tracks below the mezzanine level allow passengers to cross from one platform to the other.

Until 1992, the station had only one outdoor entrance, in front of Windsor Station; two additional accesses led directly to Place Bonaventure and Gare Centrale (Central Station) on one end, and the Château Champlain and Place du Canada on the other. When 1000 de La Gauchetière was built directly above the station, additional accesses were added to the office tower and the Downtown Terminus (metropolitan bus terminal for Réseau de transport de Longueuil and South Shore buses) within it, as well as a street entrance on the western side of the building on Cathédrale Street and improved access to Central Station and Place Bonaventure.

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