Green Line (Montreal Metro)
The Green Line (French: Ligne verte), also known as Line 1 (French: Ligne 1), is one of the four lines of the metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The line runs through the commercial section of downtown Montreal underneath Boulevard de Maisonneuve, formerly Rue de Montigny. It runs mainly on a northeast to southwest axis with a connection to Lines 2 and 4 at a station just east of downtown called Berri-UQAM, and with Line 2 west of downtown at Lionel-Groulx.
The section between Atwater and Frontenac was part of the initial network; extended to Honoré-Beaugrand in 1976, and to Angrignon in 1978. The extension to Honoré-Beaugrand was to provide easy access to 1976 Summer Olympics sites. Most stations are side platform stations, and a few have large video screens showing news, weather, advertisements, and the time of the next train.
Read more about Green Line (Montreal Metro): History, List of Stations
Famous quotes containing the words green and/or line:
“On the green they watched their sons
Playing till too dark to see,
As their fathers watched them once,
As my father once watched me;”
—Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
“When all this is over, you know what I’m going to do? I’m gonna get married, gonna have about six kids. I’ll line ‘em up against the wall and tell them what it was like here in Burma. If they don’t cry, I’ll beat the hell out of ‘em.”
—Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter, and Milton Sperling. Samuel Fuller. Barney, Merrill’s Marauders (1962)