Pink Line (Montreal Metro)

Pink Line
Overview
LocaleMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Transit typeRapid transit
Number of stations29 (planned)
Operation
Operation will start2025 (planned)
Operator(s)Société de transport de Montréal (STM)
Map of the proposed Pink Line route

The Pink Line (French: Ligne rose) is a new subway line proposal for the Montreal Metro in Quebec. First proposed by municipal councillor Sylvain Ouellet in September 2011,[1] the Pink Line in its current form was a "central campaign promise" of the mayoral campaign of Valérie Plante, leader of the political party Projet Montréal and now mayor of Montreal. The project was proposed to be finished by 2025, at a cost of an estimated C$5.9 billion.[2]

The project has since been added to Quebec's 10-year infrastructure plan, and feasibility studies for the line's western section began in June 2021.[3]

The proposed route of the line would traverse many Montreal neighbourhoods. It would start in Montreal North, and travel southwest through the city, with connections to the blue line extension, Mont-Royal metro station, and Place-des-Arts station. Given this routing, the section from Montreal North to Pie-IX is generally seen as the successor to the cancelled White Line originally proposed in the 1980s. A second phase of the project would travel southwest from Downtown Montreal, through Westmount, the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, Montreal West, and end at Lachine.[2] This would be the first Montreal Metro line with above-ground stations.

List of stations

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The pink line is proposed to have 29 stations, listed in the table below.[4]

Station Borough or town Location Type
1 Montreal North Léger & Langelier Blvds Underground
2 Rolland Blvd Underground
3 Place Bourassa Underground
4 Saint-Léonard Saint-Léonard–Montréal-Nord station, Mascouche line Underground
5 Viau & Lavoisier Underground
6 Saint-Michel Jarry & Pie-IX/Provencher Underground
7 Jean-Talon & Pie-IX Underground
8 Rosemont Collège de Rosemont Underground
9 Rosemont & St-Michel Blvds Underground
10 Masson Underground
11 d'Iberville & St-Joseph Underground
12 Plateau-Mont-Royal Mt-Royal Ave & Papineau/De Lorimier Underground
13 Mont-Royal Station, Orange Line Underground
14 Saint-Laurent Blvd & Rachel Underground
15 Pine & Park Aves Underground
16 Ville-Marie Place-des-Arts station, Green Line Underground
17 Complexe Guy-Favreau and Palais des congrès Underground
18 Montreal Central Station Underground
19 E-Commerce Place, René-Lévesque Underground
20 Canadian Centre for Architecture Underground
21 Westmount Greene Avenue Surface
22 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Vendôme station, Orange Line Surface
23 Regent St Surface
24 Cavendish Blvd Surface
25 Montréal-Ouest station, commuter lines Surface
26 Lachine Old Ville Saint-Pierre Underground
27 Victoria & George-V Sts Surface
28 Victoria St & LaSalle Park Surface
29 Victoria St & 32nd Avenue Underground

References

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  1. ^ Normandin, Pierre-André (4 November 2017). "Visions d'après-élections". La Presse. Vol. 134, no. 3. Montréal. p. A4.
  2. ^ a b D'Alimonte, Michael (11 October 2017). "Montreal To Potentially Get New "Pink" STM Metro Line By 2025". MTL Blog. Narcity Media. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Pink line a key campaign promise once again for Projet Montréal - Montreal | Globalnews.ca".
  4. ^ Gerbet, Thomas (7 November 2017). "Découvrez où seraient les stations de la ligne rose (French)". Radio-Canada. Retrieved 9 November 2017.