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Du Collège station

Du Collège
MetroDu College.jpg
Location 1490, rue Du Collège & 450, rue Ouimet, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates 45°30′32″N 73°40′27″W / 45.50889°N 73.67417°W / 45.50889; -73.67417Coordinates: 45°30′32″N 73°40′27″W / 45.50889°N 73.67417°W / 45.50889; -73.67417
Operated by Société de transport de Montréal
Connections
  STM buses
Construction
Depth 17.1 metres (56 feet 1 inch), 26th deepest
Architect Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand
History
Opened 9 January 1984
Traffic
Passengers 2,485,918 entrances in 2006, 39th of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro.svg Montreal Metro   Following station
Terminus
Orange Line
toward Montmorency

Du Collège station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Saint-Laurent in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Orange Line. It opened on January 9, 1984, and replaced Plamondon station as the western terminus of the line until Côte-Vertu station opened in 1986.

The station is a normal side platform station with an entrance at either end. The southern entrance is located in a bus loop.

The station was designed by Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand, and contains several artworks. The northern entrance contains four stained-glass windows, one by Lyse Charland Favretti on the theme of education and three by Pierre Osterrath on the borough of Saint-Laurent, its agricultural past, and its future. The southern entrance contains another stained-glass window by Favretti representing the borough's aeronautics industry, as well as an abstract relief in brick by Aurelio Sandonato. The station's best-known architectural feature, however, is an Ionic column in the northern mezzanine.

This station is named for the rue du Collège, whose name commemorates the nearby Cégep de Saint-Laurent, inaugurated as a college in 1847 and turned into a Cégep in 1974.


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