Contracts awarded for new blue line stations
Contracts have been awarded for the design of three of the new blue line stations.
I still haven’t heard how the STM plans to name the new stations at Viau and Pie-IX, given there are already stations with those names on the green line. But so long as none of them is named for Bernard Landry, I’ll be happy.
Tim F 07:25 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
I feel like the elegant solution is to rename the existing stations to Stade Olympique and Biodôme or something to that effect.
Kate 09:04 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
That’s not bad. But contrarily to what I said below about naming stations after people, maybe the existing Viau station should be renamed Maurice-Richard after the arena at that corner?
Filp 09:33 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Pierre de Coubertin works too for either
qatzelok 09:51 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
The new (transfer?) station at Pie IX could be named “Le Petit Maghreb,” which might also inspire both its architecture, as well as give a boost to the restaurant/tlourism potential of that unvisited area.
Spi 12:15 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
It might be a bit inelegant, but just name the Pie-IX station on the blue line, Pie-IX-Nord and the Viau one can easily just be named Saint-Leonard.
Kate 13:20 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
I suspect they’ll do something like that, Spi. Viau Nord, Pie-IX Nord.
I looked at the map and realized they won’t easily be able to do a Papineau/Fabre thing with these stations. The nearby streets to Pie-IX along the route are numbers – 22e and 23e avenue, not very effective. And where Viau passes near Jean-Talon is a suburban jungle of malls and no other street names of note.