Du Collège station

Du Collège
File:MetroDu College.jpg
Location	1490, rue Du Collège & 450, rue Ouimet, Montreal Quebec, Canada
Coordinates
Operated by	Société de transport de Montréal
Connections
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   Following station Côte-Vertu Terminus Orange Line De La Savane toward Montmorency

Du Collège 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 Saint-Laurent in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Opened on January 9, 1984, it replaced Plamondon station as the western terminus of the line, and so remained until the construction of Côte-Vertu station in 1986.

Overview

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.

Origin of the name

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.

Connecting bus routes

Main article: List of Montreal Bus Routes

Société de transport de Montréal
Route	Service Times	Map	Schedule
17 Décarie	All-day	Map	Schedule
72 Alfred-Nobel	Weekdays before 8:00PM	Map	Schedule
73 Dalton	Rush Hours	Map	Schedule
76 McArthur	Weekdays after 10:00PM	Map	Schedule
117 O'Brien	All-day before 8:00PM	Map	Schedule
128 Ville-Saint-Laurent	All-day	Map	Schedule
175 Griffith/Saint-François	Weekdays before 7:00PM	Map	Schedule
202 Dawson	All-day	Map	Schedule
220 Kieran	3 Weekday Services	Map	Schedule
371 Décarie	Overnight	Map	Schedule
378 Sauvé/Côte-Vertu/Mtl-Trudeau	Overnight	Map	Schedule
380 Henri-Bourassa	Overnight	Map	Schedule
382 Pierrefonds/St-Charles	Overnight	Map	Schedule
409 Express Des Sources	Rush Hours	Map	Schedule
460 Express Métropolitaine	Rush Hours	Map	Schedule

Nearby points of interest

• Vanier College
• Cégep de Saint-Laurent
• Promenade de Vieux Saint-Laurent
• Saint-Laurent Museum of Art
• former Saint-Laurent Postal Station
• former Saint-Laurent Police Station
• Saint-Laurent Public Library
• Saint-Laurent Municipal Courthouse
• Montreal Fire Station 73
• Saint-Laurent City Hall

External links

• Du Collège Station - official web page
• Du Collège metro station geo location
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com
• 2013 system map
• Metro Map
• Neighbourhood map