Saint-Laurent station

Saint-Laurent
Saint-Laurent
General information
Location	10, boul. de Maisonneuve Est; Montreal, Quebec H2X 1J5; Canada
Coordinates	45°30′39″N 73°33′53″W / 45.51083°N 73.56472°W
Operated by	Société de transport de Montréal
Connections	Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
Depth	9.1 metres (29 feet 10 inches), 56th deepest
Accessible	No
Architect	Brassard et Warren
Other information
Fare zone	ARTM: A
History
Opened	14 October 1966
Passengers
2023	2,224,185 22.72%
Rank	46 of 68
Services

Saint-Laurent 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 Green Line. The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the Metro.

Overview

Designed by Brassard et Warren, it is a normal side platform station, built in an open cut under boul. de Maisonneuve. The station's volume contains its mezzanine and ticket hall, connected to a single entrance. This is one of the few downtown stations not to have an entrance integrated into another building, and plans for the vacant lot around the station continually surface; the current plan is for a cultural centre, including a school of contemporary dance.^[5]

Bixi bicycle rack at the west entrance

Architecture and art

The station contains non-figurative tiled murals by noted ceramicist Claude Vermette.

Origin of the name

The station takes its name from Saint Laurent Boulevard (in French, boulevard Saint-Laurent), a main thoroughfare of Montreal, opened and named by 1720 as the road joining Montreal to the village of Côte-Saint-Laurent, now a borough of Montreal. The latter was named for Saint Lawrence, probably by allusion to the Saint Lawrence River. Saint Laurent Boulevard is considered the dividing line between eastern and western Montreal, and divides addresses between east and west.