Côte-Sainte-Catherine (Montreal Metro)

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Côte-Sainte-Catherine

Inaugurated	4 January 1982
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Gilbert Sauvé
Platform Depth	17.7 metres
Rank	20th deepest
Traffic	1,893,333 entrances in 2002
Rank	46th busiest
Interstation Distance	451,10 metres to Plamondon 693,00 metres to Snowdon

Côte-Sainte-Catherine is a station on Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Côte-des-Neiges area of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

It was inaugurated on January 4, 1982; it briefly served as the western terminus of the orange line, replacing Snowdon station, until the opening of Plamondon in June of the same year.

The station is a normal side-platform station one entrance.

The station was designed by Gilbert Sauvé and contains murals and reliefs by the architect.

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 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for the chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, the main street of the former village of Outremont, which had been called Côte Sainte-Catherine since the 17th century. The station, road, and côte were all named for Saint Catherine of Alexandria.