Underground Montreal

The underground Montreal , or interior city , is the network of underground Ville of Montreal. Since 2004, it is indicated by the name of RÉSO .

History

The underground Montreal belonged to the modernization plans of the mayor of Montreal Jean Drapeau, in the Années 1950, just as the Métro of Montreal. It was born with construction from the Place City-Marie in 1962. It is the greatest underground complex in the world.

Geography

The network consists of 30 km of tunnels, covering 12 km ² and includes 60 residential and commercial complexes, adding up 3,6 km ² of space usable. This accounts for 80% of the space of office and 35% of the commercial space of the district of City-Marie. Among the accessible services, one counts Banque S, Hôtel S, shopping malls, head offices, buildings university, residences of luxury, like seven and two station subway stations of suburban trains. Underground Montreal comprises more than 120 access points external and more than 500.000 people use it each day, especially during the winter montréalais.

Buildings connected to RÉSO

The RÉSO is divided into several segments, of which most known is the central segment, in the district of City-Marie. It is located between the subways Peel and Place-of-Arts on the Green line and the subways Lucien-The Allier and Place-with Armes on the Orange line; these two under-segments are connected to the level of the stations McGill and Bonaventure, as well as stations Place-of-Arts and Place-with Armes.

Central segment

Station Peel

  • Royal & Sunalliance

  • Tower Maritime the
  • Place Canada Trust
  • Turn Scotia
  • Mount-Royal Center
  • 2000 Peel
  • the Mount-Royal Course
  • Crossroads Industrial-Alliance
    • Paramount
    • the House Simons
    • in the past Simpson' S
    • (towards the subway McGill via the Place Montreal Trust)

Station McGill

  • Center Eaton/1501 McGill College

    • in the past the Terraces
    • (towards the subway Bonaventure via the Central station and the Place City-Marie)
  • Place Montreal Trust
    • (towards the subway Peel via the Crossroads Industrial-Alliance)
  • Tower Industrial-Life
  • the Center 2020 University
  • Place London Life/the Galleries 2001 University
  • University McGill - the building of the 688 Sherbrooke
  • the Bay
  • Parkade
  • Walks of the Cathedral the House of the Co-operators
  • Center the Wings (the Wings of the Mode)
    • in the past Eaton' S

Station Bonaventure

  • the 1000 of Gauchetière

    • Terminus Downtown area (for the buses of suburbs)
  • the hotel Fairmont the Queen Élizabeth
  • Place Bonaventure
    • (towards the subway Public garden-Victoria via the building of ICAO)
  • Place of Canada - Hotel Castle Champlain
  • Central station
  • Place City-Marie
    • (towards the subway McGill via the Center Eaton)
  • the 1250 Western Rene-Lévesque
  • Building Station Windsor - Head office of the Canadian Pacific Railway
    • (towards the subway Lucien-To combine via the Center Bell)

Lucien-The Station To combine

  • Lucien-The Station To combine
  • Center Bell (towards the subway Bonaventure via the Building of the Windsor Station)
  • Building IBM

Station Public garden-Victoria

Station Place-with Weapons

Station Place-of-Arts

Segment Berri-UQAM

The subway station Berri-UQAM is the central station of the network of subway, located at the east of the downtown area. In addition to binding several buildings of the University from Quebec to Montreal (UQAM) them houses Judith-Jasmine, Athanase-David, and Hubert-Aquin it is also connected to the central Terminus of bus, the station for connections intermunicipales, interprovinciales and towards the United States. The Place Dupuis, a complex commercial, of office and hotel, is also bound, just as the Grande Bibliothèque of Quebec.

Segment Guy-Concordia

This station comprises a direct connection starting from its entry on the street Guy to the

  • Pavillon of the subway Guy (Guy Metro Building) of the University Concordia
  • Pavillon of Genius, Informatique and visual Arts (Engineering and Visual Arts Complex) of the University Concordia

The Library (Library Building) and the house Henry F. Hall (Hall Building) could soon be connected to the subway by the new House of Genius, Informatique and Arts visual (Engineering and Visual Arts Complex), by supposing that the required funds can be piled up.

There is also a possible bond with the Faubourg Co.-Catherine, where the Concordia University has buildings. This one is already related on the tower of the Suburb (Tower Suburb) and to the campus of the Gray Sisters. The building of Bank TD (Toronto Dominion) that Concordia has just acquired is also prone to a potential bond.

At the present moment, there is no connection between the station Guy-Concordia and the tower to office which overhangs its entry, street St-Mathieu.

Segment Atwater

The Atwater station, in the west of the downtown area and the end is of Westmount, is connected to the shopping malls Plaza Alexis-Nihon and Westmount Square, with turns at offices, complexes residential and with CÉGEP of English language of the Collège Dawson.

Other stations

Several other subway stations outside the downtown area are connected to other buildings.

  • the station Jean-Heel

    • Turn Jean-Heel

The plans for the new super-hospital University center of health McGill (McGill University Health Centers) include an underground tunnel towards the subway Vendôme.

Underground Montreal except RÉSO

Other public edifices are connected via tunnels, without belonging to the RÉSO.

Universities

  • University McGill - Several buildings are connected by tunnels, on the campus of the downtown area:
    • the complex of Génie is composed of buildings connected to each other and with the house Burnside Hall.
    • the residences on the Avenue of the Park are connected with the City.
  • University Concordia - to see the section Segment Guy-Concordia
  • University of Montreal - Certain departments of the university are connected between-them by a tunnel skirting the Garage Louis-Hake.

Residential and commercial complexes

  • the City on the Which occurred of the Park
    • Cinema of the Park
    • Galleries of the Park
    • Apartments the City

Other

  • the two houses of the Musée of the fine arts of Montreal are connected by a tunnel under the street Sherbrooke, container of spaces of exhibition.

  • the house principal of Point-with-Callière, Museum of archeology and history of Montreal, called the Spur, is connected to the old customs of the Royale place by a gallery under this place and the place of Youville. This gallery also contains spaces of exhibition as well as archaeological excavations.

See too

External bonds

  • Chart of the interior city in pdf, by the Observatory of the interior city of the University of Montreal
  • Chart of the underground grid in pdf
  • Chart of the underground grid (more diagrammatic) in pdf
  • the tower of the Suburb
  • the house of the subway Guy (GM)
  • the house Henry F. Hall
  • Photographs and list of the buildings connected to underground Montreal

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