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Bonaventure station

Bonaventure
Bonaventuremetro2011.jpg
Location 955, rue de la Cathédrale, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates 45°29′53″N 73°34′02″W / 45.49806°N 73.56722°W / 45.49806; -73.56722Coordinates: 45°29′53″N 73°34′02″W / 45.49806°N 73.56722°W / 45.49806; -73.56722
Operated by Société de transport de Montréal
Connections
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.svg Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Côte-Vertu
Orange Line
toward Montmorency

Bonaventure 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 Orange Line. 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 station 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 Montreal Central Station (Gare Central) 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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