The Metro, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, during the tenure of Mayor Jean Drapeau. Originally consisting of 26 stations on three separate lines, the Metro now incorporates 68 stations on four lines measuring 65.33 km (40.59 mi) in length, serving the north, east, and centre of the Island of Montreal with connections to Longueuil, via the Yellow Line, and Laval, via the Orange line. The metro system is currently Canada's second longest and second in total annual passenger usage (in both respects to Toronto's subway system), serving 289.1 million riders a year (transfers not included); according to the STM website, the metro system has transported over 6 billion passengers as of 2006, roughly equivalent to the world's population. The Montreal Metro was inspired by the Paris Metro and in turn is also the inspiration for the Lyon Metro, constructed a few years later, which shares the same rubber-wheel car design and Montreal Metro station architecture.
History
Unbuilt projects
1910
The first subway proposal, dated 1910, was for a single line running underneath De Bleury street and Park Avenue from Craig street (now St-Antoine) all the way to Mont-Royal avenue. The line was to run underground from Craig to Pine Avenue.
1944
In 1944, the Montreal Tramways company proposed a 2 line network, running underneath Ste-Catherine street from Cabot Square (Atwater avenue) to Papineau, and a second line under St-Denis (from Jean-Talon to Notre-Dame), then turning westwards under Notre-Dame and St-Jacques all the way to Guy, then turning north and connecting with the other line at Guy street.
1953
The newly formed Montreal Transportation Commission proposed a single line, running under Ste-Catherine Street from Atwater Avenue towards Peel where the line would have turned south, going underneath Dominion Square all the way down to St-Jacques Street, which it followed to St-Denis Street. Then, it would have gone north all the way to Crémazie Boulevard, right by the Youville maintenance shops.
Between 1967 and 1984
Planned extension of Line 2 Orange,
See "Montreal Metro map, with planned extensions" in next section.
Line 3 Red
Planned extensions of Line 5 Blue,
See "Montreal Metro map, with planned extensions" in next section.
Line 6 (Montreal Metro)
Line 7 White
Initial network
Construction began in May 1962 and was engaged before Montreal was chosen as host of the 1967 World's Fair (Expo 67), held in the summer of 1967. Regardless of the fair, the city badly needed a mass transportation system, projects dating back to 1910. The main lines (Green (Line 1), Atwater to Frontenac; and Orange (Line 2), Bonaventure to Henri-Bourassa) were opened gradually starting in October 1966, with the Yellow line (Line 4) (Berri-de-Montigny to Longueuil, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River) not opened until April 1967.
A Line 3 was originally intended as a surface metro running in part through the existing railway tracks running under Mount Royal to Cartierville. But then, as negotiations with the Canadian National Railway (CN Rail) for the use of their tracks and tunnel were stalled, Montreal was chosen as host of the Expo 67. Plans and budgets were therefore redirected for the design and construction of a replacement line, Line 4, constructed especially for Expo 67, in place of the never built Line 3, whose tracks are now used for the Deux-Montagnes commuter train. The Montreal Metro nonetheless continues to be numbered as if this proposed line had been constructed as Line 3 of the Metro.
With the awarding of the 1976 Summer Olympics to Montreal, construction began in October 1971 for the extension of Line 1 from Frontenac to Honoré-Beaugrand to service the main Olympic site; the new stations were opened in June 1976.
Later, Line 1 was extended from Atwater to Angrignon (September 1978), while Line 2 was extended from Bonaventure to Place-Saint-Henri (April 1980), Snowdon (September 1981), Côte-Sainte-Catherine and Plamondon (January and June 1982), and Du Collège (January 1984).
Two years later, a new line (Blue (Line 5)) was built from De Castelnau to Saint-Michel (June 1986), with transfers to Line 2 at Jean-Talon, and Line 2 was extended further to Côte-Vertu (November 1986). Line 5 was then extended to Parc (June 1987), Acadie (March 1988), and the existing Snowdon station on Line 2 (January 1988). To this date, the Montreal Metro is Canada's second largest subway system.
The lines, however, were not planned to end where they eventually did in 1990. Line 2 was originally meant to have two or three more stations beyond Côte-Vertu; however, priority funding was given to Line 5. The plans for Deguire/Poirier, Bois-Franc, and Salaberry stations were scrubbed. Line 5 itself was shortened due to funding issues. It was originally been projected to have stops west of Snowdon (Côte Saint-Luc, Cavendish, Montréal-Ouest, Lafleur) and east of Saint-Michel (Pie-IX, Viau, Lacordaire, Langelier, Galeries d'Anjou).
An entire metro line in initial planning was also scrubbed, the so-called Line 7/Pie IX - Saint-Leonard/White Line, also due to the same funding issues. Proposed for the first time by the Bureau des Transports de Montréal (BTM) in September 1983, the original project for a new north-south line (Line 7, the number 6 being reserved for another surface metro line proposed by the Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ)) would have had 10 stations (from Pie-IX to Léger), which then got formally proposed by the Communauté urbaine de Montréal (CUM) at the start of 1984, this time having 12 stations (from Pie-IX to Maurice-Duplessis/Langelier).
While a number of proposals for further expansion had been studied over the years, it all came to a stop around 1990, when the Quebec provincial government placed a moratorium on further metro construction. Then, in 2002, construction began on a three-station extension of Line 2 from Henri-Bourassa under the Rivière des Prairies to Montmorency on the island of Laval (northwest of the island of Montreal). This extension was completed and the three new stations were opened on April 28, 2007. Ridership increased by 50,000 a day to 835,000 with the new stations.
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