Angrignon (Montreal Metro)

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Angrignon

Inaugurated	3 September 1978
Line	Green Line
Architect	Jean-Louis Beaulieu
Platform Depth	4.3 metres
Rank	Shallowest station (tie)
Traffic	4,493,057 entrances in 2004
Rank	15th busiest
Interstation Distance	844.29 metres to Monk

Angrignon is a metro station in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It is the current terminus for the western-bound Green Line, and includes a large terminal for buses to southwest Montreal, the West Island, and the South Shore. Angrignon Metro station is built with windows encasing the track, which creates a very light and airy environment. Jean-Louis Beaulieu received an award from the Ordre des Architectes du Québec for the design of the station.

1 Origin of the name
2 Connecting bus routes
3 Nearby main intersections
4 Nearby points of interest
5 Reference
6 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

Jean-Baptiste Arthur Angrignon was alderman of the district of Saint-Paul and a member of the Executive Committee of the city of Montreal. He oversaw the development of what is now Parc Angrignon on what was land that belonged to the Crawford family. The area was named after him in 1927.

[edit] Connecting bus routes

(All use the AMT bus terminus)

[edit] Regular STM routes

36 Monk
37 Jolicoeur
78 Laurendeau
106 Newman
109 Bd Shevchenko
110 Centrale
113 Lapierre
195 Sherbrooke/Notre-Dame
506 Voie Réservée Newman

[edit] STM Night routes

350 Verdun/LaSalle

[edit] Metropolitain routes

Name	Main Destinations
CIT Roussillon	5, 15, 30 Delson, Sainte-Catherine, Saint-Constant
CIT du Sud-Ouest	Valleyfield (1), Chateauguay Rush Hour Service (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28), Chateauguay Regular Service (31 & 32)
CIT Haut-Saint-Laurent	Huntingdon, Sainte-Martine, Mercier