Lionel-Groulx (Montreal Metro)

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Lionel-Groulx

Inaugurated	3 September 1978 (Green line) 28 April 1980 (Orange Line)
Line	Green Line Orange Line
Architect	Yves Roy
Platform Depth	12.5m metres (upper platform) 16.5m (lower platform)
Rank	29th deepest
Traffic	3,800,084 entrances in 2002
Rank	23rd busiest (excluding transfers)
Interstation Distance	Green Line: 1077.31 metres to Charlevoix 1387.74 metres to Atwater Orange Line: 579.60 metres to Place-Saint-Henri 530.60 metres to Georges-Vanier

Lionel-Groulx is a station of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It is in the Saint-Henri area of the borough of Le Sud-Ouest. It is a transfer station between the Green Line and Orange Line.

It was inaugurated on September 3, 1978 as part of the extension of the Green Line to Angrignon, with service on the Green Line only, though the Orange Line platforms were built at the same time. They did not enter service until the extension to Place-Saint-Henri was opened on April 28, 1980. It was therefore the first transfer station to be opened after Berri-UQAM, in the original network.

The station, built in open cut, features stacked platforms with central platforms between the lines; the orange line is to the south and the green line to the north. The platforms are arranged in a cross-platform interchange, with the two inbound lines (Henri-Bourassa and Honoré-Beaugrand) on the upper level, and the two outbound lines (Côte-Vertu and Angrignon) on the lower level. This allows the majority of passengers to transfer by simply walking across the platform, without having to go up or down stairs. The station's mezzanine, suspended on beams, is located above the upper platform, and gives access to the single entrance.

The Tree of Life by Joseph Rifesser stands in the Lionel-Groulx Metro Station

The station was designed by Yves Roy. It contains two artworks: a pair of stainless steel mural sculptures by the architect over the mezzanine, and in the mezzanine itself, a sculpture called The Tree of Life by Italian artist Joseph Rifesser. Representing the races of humanity growing from a common root, it was carved from the entire trunk of a walnut tree, it was originally located at Man and His World and was given to the Montreal metro by the United Nations.

1 Origin of the name
2 Connecting bus routes
- 2.1 Regular routes
- 2.2 Night routes
3 Address of entrances
4 Nearby points of interest
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for rue Lionel-Groulx, which had its name changed to allow the station to commemorate Lionel Groulx. Fr. Groulx, one of the most influential of Quebec historians, founded the Franco-American History Institute in 1946 and directed the Révue d'histoire de l'Amérique française from 1947 to 1967.

In November of 1996, the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada officially requested that the Executive Committee of the Montreal Urban Community (M.U.C.) recommend a name change to the Lionel Groulx metro station in Montreal.

[edit] Connecting bus routes

[edit] Regular routes

78 Laurendeau
108 Bannantyne
173 Métrobus Victoria
190 Métrobus Lachine
191 Broadway/Provost
211 Bord-du-Lac
221 Métrobus Lionel-Groulx

[edit] Night routes

350 Verdun/LaSalle
371 Décarie

[edit] Address of entrances

620, av. Atwater, between rue Saint-Jacques and rue Delisle; opposite rue Lionel-Groulx

[edit] Nearby points of interest

Atwater Market
Église Saint-Irénée
Union United Church
Parc du Canal-de-Lachine
CÉDA (Comité d'éducation aux adultes)
Solin Hall (Off-Campus Residence of McGill University)
With bus #211 or #221: Montréal/Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport

[edit] Trivia

Scenes of the Bruce Willis-Richard Gere film The Jackal were shot in this station, redressed to stand in for the Metro Center station on the Washington Metro.