Viau (Montreal Metro)

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Viau

Inaugurated	6 June 1976
Line	Green Line
Architect	Irving Sager
Platform Depth	4.6 metres
Rank	60th deepest
Traffic	2,692,560 entrances in 2002
Rank	34th busiest
Interstation Distance	621.85 metres to Pie-IX 895.87 metres to Assomption

Viau is a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It is in the district of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in the borough of Mercier/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. It was inaugurated on June 6, 1976, as part of the extension of the Green Line to Honoré-Beaugrand, in time for the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Designed by architect Irving Sager, it is a normal side-platform station built in a shallow open cut. The eastern end of the station is surmounted by the large station pavilion, which includes the ticket hall. There is no transept; stairs lead directly from the platforms to street level.

The eastern wall of the mezzanine is decorated by a non-figurative ceramic mural by Jean-Paul Mousseau, entitled Opus 74 and representing the Olympic flame and the tower of the Stade Olympique.

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
5 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for rue Viau, named for local industrialist Charles-Théodore Viau, who purchased nearby tracts of land and developed them as a neighbourhood later named Viauville.