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Saint-Michel (Montreal Metro)

Saint-Michel
Station metro Saint-Michel Montreal.jpg
Location 7270 & 7325, boul. Saint-Michel, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates 45°33′35″N 73°36′00″W / 45.55972°N 73.60000°W / 45.55972; -73.60000Coordinates: 45°33′35″N 73°36′00″W / 45.55972°N 73.60000°W / 45.55972; -73.60000
Operated by Société de transport de Montréal
Connections
  STM buses
  STL buses
Construction
Depth 15.8 metres (51 feet 10 inches), 33rd deepest
Architect Lemoyne & Associés
History
Opened 16 June 1986
Traffic
Passengers 3,925,861 entrances in 2006, 18th of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro.svg Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Snowdon
Blue Line Terminus

Saint-Michel station is a Montreal Metro station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and is the eastern terminus of the Blue Line. It opened in 1986.

It is a side platform station with two entrances on either side of boul. St-Michel connecting to a common ticket hall. Unlike all other stations on the Blue Line, the station is only as long as the six-car trains used on the line; all the others were built to accommodate a nine-car train. However, the station cavern is long enough for a nine-car train; the extra space could be opened and finished to accommodate full-length trains if and when the STM decides to extend the line east into the boroughs of St. Leonard and Anjou, committing to the line's original design.

The platforms feature four abstract paintings under glass bricks, by Normand Moffat, Charles Lemay, Lauréat Marois, and Marcelin Cardinal.

Saint-Michel station takes its name from the street under which it lies, boulevard Saint-Michel, named by at least the late eighteenth century for the former Ville Saint-Michel within which it is located. Saint-Michel is the French Catholic title for the archangel Michael.


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