Pink Line (Montreal Metro) Explained

Pink Line
Locale:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Transit Type:Rapid transit
Start:Montreal North
End:Lachine
Stations:29 (planned)
Operation Will Start:2025 (planned)
Operator:Société de transport de Montréal (STM)

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. This would be the first Montreal Metro line with above-ground stations.

List of stations

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

- ! scope="col" Station ! scope="col" Borough or town ! scope="col" Location ! scope="col" Type - ! scope="row" 1 Léger & Langelier Blvds Underground - ! scope="row" 2 Rolland Blvd Underground - ! scope="row" 3 Place Bourassa Underground - ! scope="row" 4 Saint-Léonard–Montréal-Nord station, Mascouche line Underground - ! scope="row" 5 Viau & Lavoisier Underground - ! scope="row" 6 Jarry & Pie-IX/Provencher Underground - ! scope="row" 7 Jean-Talon & Pie-IX Underground - ! scope="row" 8 Underground - ! scope="row" 9 Rosemont & St-Michel Blvds Underground - ! scope="row" 10 Masson Underground - ! scope="row" 11 d'Iberville & St-Joseph Underground - ! scope="row" 12 Mt-Royal Ave & Papineau/De Lorimier Underground - ! scope="row" 13 Mont-Royal Station, Orange Line Underground - ! scope="row" 14 Saint-Laurent Blvd & Rachel Underground - ! scope="row" 15 Pine & Park Aves Underground - ! scope="row" 16 Place-des-Arts station, Green Line Underground - ! scope="row" 17 Underground - ! scope="row" 18 Underground - ! scope="row" 19 E-Commerce Place, René-Lévesque Underground - ! scope="row" 20 Underground - ! scope="row" 21 Greene Avenue Surface - ! scope="row" 22 Vendôme station, Orange Line Surface - ! scope="row" 23 Regent St Surface - ! scope="row" 24 Cavendish Blvd Surface - ! scope="row" 25 Montréal-Ouest station, commuter lines Surface - ! scope="row" 26 Old Ville Saint-Pierre Underground - ! scope="row" 27 Victoria & George-V Sts Surface - ! scope="row" 28 Victoria St & LaSalle Park Surface - ! scope="row" 29 Victoria St & 32nd Avenue Underground

Notes and References

  1. News: Pierre-André. Normandin. Visions d'après-élections. La Presse. 134. 3. Montréal. 4 November 2017. A4.
  2. Web site: D'Alimonte . Michael . Montreal To Potentially Get New "Pink" STM Metro Line By 2025. MTL Blog. 11 October 2017. Narcity Media. 18 November 2017.
  3. Web site: Pink line a key campaign promise once again for Projet Montréal - Montreal | Globalnews.ca.
  4. Web site: Gerbet. Thomas. Découvrez où seraient les stations de la ligne rose (French). 7 November 2017 . Radio-Canada. 9 November 2017.