Atwater (Montreal Metro)

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Atwater

Inaugurated	14 October, 1966
Line	Green Line
Architect	David, Boulva et Cleve
Platform Depth	7.6 metres
Rank	56th deepest
Traffic	6,582,505 entrances in 2002
Rank	6th busiest
Interstation Distance	1387.74 metres to Lionel-Groulx 681.54 metres to Guy-Concordia

Atwater is a station on the Green Line of the Metro in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It is on the border between the boroughs of Westmount and Ville-Marie.

It was inaugurated 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.

Designed by David, Boulva & Cleve, it is a normal side-platform station, built in open cut under the de Maisonneuve Blvd. It has a large mezzanine with ticket barriers on either end; it has one direct exit, as well as underground city connections to the Place Alexis Nihon, Westmount Square, and Dawson College. There is also a secondary entrance to the bus terminal in Cabot Square, accessed via Plaza Alexis Nihon.

1 Origin of the name
2 Connecting bus routes
- 2.1 Regular routes
- 2.2 Night routes
3 Address of entrances
4 Nearby points of interest
- 4.1 Connected via the underground city
- 4.2 Other
5 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

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

[edit] Connecting bus routes

[edit] Regular routes

15 Sainte-Catherine
57 Pointe-Saint-Charles
63 Girouard
90 Saint-Jacques
104 Cavendish
108 Bannantyne
138 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
144 Des Pins
150 René-Lévesque

[edit] Night routes

350 Verdun/LaSalle
356 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
358 Sainte-Catherine
360 Des Pins
369 Côte-des-Neiges
371 Décarie

[edit] Address of entrances

De Maisonneuve entrance: 3015, de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., at Atwater Ave.
Sainte-Catherine entrance: 2322 Saint Catherine Street W., at Atwater Ave., in Cabot Square