Atwater station

Atwater station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line on the border between the city of Westmount and Montreal.[3]

Atwater
Location2322, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest and 3015, boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates45°29′23″N 73°35′10″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Connections
  Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
Depth7.6 metres (24 feet 11 inches), 56th deepest
ArchitectDavid, Boulva et Cleve
History
Opened14 October 1966
Traffic
Passengers (2019[1][2])8,140,963  4.7%
Rank9 of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Angrignon
Green Line
Guy-Concordia

The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the Metro; it was the western terminus of the Green Line until the extension to Angrignon in 1978.

Architecture and art

Designed by David, Boulva et Cleve, it is a normal side platform station, built in open cut under the De Maisonneuve Boulevard. It has a large mezzanine with ticket barriers on either end. It has underground city connections to Place Alexis Nihon, Westmount Square, and Dawson College.

The station is equipped with MétroVision information screens which display news, commercials, and the time until the next train.

Station entrance on the southeasterly corner of Atwater Avenue and Saint Catherine Street

Origin of the name

This station is named for Atwater Avenue, named for Edwin Atwater (1808–1874), a municipal alderman of the district of Saint-Antoine. The street was named for him in 1871.

Connecting bus routes
Société de transport de Montréal
Route
15 Sainte-Catherine
57 Pointe-Saint-Charles
63 Girouard
90 Saint-Jacques
104 Cavendish
108 Bannantyne
138 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
144 Avenue Des Pins
150 René-Lévesque
350 Verdun/LaSalle
354 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue/Downtown
355 Pie-IX
356 Lachine/Montreal-Trudeau/Des Sources
358 Sainte-Catherine
360 Avenue des Pins
364 Sherbrooke/Joseph-Renaud
369 Côte-des-Neiges
371 Décarie
376 Pierrefonds/Downtown

Nearby points of interest

Connected via the underground city

Other

References
  1. Société de transport de Montréal (2020-05-21). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2019 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2020.091.
  2. Société de transport de Montréal (2019-08-08). Achalandage du métro mensuel, station par station (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2019.197.
  3. Atwater Station
  4. Batshaw
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