Bonaventure station

Bonaventure station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[4] 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 1980.

For other uses, see Bonaventure station (disambiguation).
Bonaventure
General information
Location955, rue de la Cathédrale
Montreal, Quebec H3B 4W5
Canada
Coordinates45°29′53″N 73°34′02″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Connections
  •   Terminus Centre-Ville
  • Amtrak at Gare Centrale
Construction
Depth22.6 metres (74 feet 2 inches), 11th deepest
AccessibleYes
ArchitectVictor Prus
Other information
Fare zoneARTM: A[1]
History
Opened13 February 1967
Passengers
2022[2][3]4,216,832 Increase 77.24%
Rank8 of 68
Services
Preceding station Montreal Metro Following station
Lucien-L'Allier
toward Côte-Vertu
 Orange Line Square-Victoria-OACI
toward Montmorency

Overview
Station's platform.

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 to allow pedestrians to pass from one end of the station to the other side. Footbridges 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, and two additional accesses led directly to Place Bonaventure and Montreal Central Station (Gare Centrale) on one end, and the Château Champlain and Place du Canada on the other. When 1000 de La Gauchetière was built almost directly above the station, additional accesses were added to the office tower and to 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.

The station is intermodal with the Réseau de transport métropolitain (RTM)'s commuter train lines through its underground access to Montreal Central Station, the terminus for Mascouche and Mont-Saint-Hilaire lines. Eventually, it will connect also to the Réseau express métropolitain network. There is also underground access to the Lucien-L'Allier train station and to the Lucien-L'Allier Metro station.

Elevators were added between the mezzanine and the platforms in November 2009, making the station more accessible to people with reduced mobility. However, no step-free access to the surface was possible until 2019, when elevators were added connecting the mezzanine level to Terminus Centre-Ville and to the lobby of 1000 De La Gauchetière. This was criticised in the media.[5] The elevators do not allow passengers to change platforms unless they exit the ticket barriers. Another elevator connecting the station to Place du Canada and the Château Champlain, formerly the only elevator in the system, is separated from the mezzanine level by steps.

The station is equipped with the MétroVision information screens, which display news, commercials, and the time until the next train.

Origin of the name

This station is named for Place Bonaventure, a major commercial complex containing businesses, the Hôtel Bonaventure (formerly a Hilton Hotel),[6] and the Société de transport de Montréal's headquarters. This was named for Bonaventure Station, a former station on the Grand Trunk Railway, which in turn was named for its location on Saint Bonaventure Street, now Saint Jacques Street. All derive their name from St. Bonaventure, a 13th-century Italian philosopher and mystic.

Connecting bus routes
Main article: List of Société de transport de Montréal bus routes
The Terminus Centre-Ville
Société de transport de Montréal
Route
36 Monk
61 Wellington
74 Bridge
75 de la Commune
107 Verdun
150 René-Lévesque
168 Cité-du-Havre
350 Verdun/LaSalle
355 Pie-IX
358 Sainte-Catherine, Westbound
364 Sherbrooke/Joseph-Renaud
410 Express Notre-Dame
420 Express Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
430 Express Pointe-aux-Trembles
465 Express Côte-des-Neiges[7]
480 Express Du Parc[7]
715 Old Port/Old Montreal
747 YUL Airport-Downtown
777 Casino / Bonaventure station
Other connecting bus routes

Nearby points of interest

Connected via the underground city
Main article: Underground City, Montreal

Other

See also

References
  1. "Fare Zones". Metropolitan Regional Transportation Authority. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. Société de transport de Montréal (2023-05-25). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2022 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2023.134.
  3. Société de transport de Montréal (2022-09-27). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2021 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2022.182.
  4. Bonaventure Metro Station
  5. Madger, Jason (3 December 2014). "Bonaventure métro station has an elevator, but nobody can get to it". montrealgazette. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  6. "Shift", Montreal Info, February 4, 2015.
  7. "Latest bus news for September". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
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