Comments on: So green that stuff is growing on the walls

By: newironshapes

newironshapes — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:18:37 +0000

Sauvons sauvé

By: SMS

SMS — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:11:42 +0000

Now if only some of the patrons of the STM would wash themselves more properly...

By: silhouette

silhouette — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:39:26 +0000

I think De Castenau has nice walls :P

By: protogenes

protogenes — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:01:42 +0000

That station has been crummy for decades. Perhaps the city sees that as part of its historical charm?

By: ladyjaye

ladyjaye — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:07:51 +0000

There are talks of revamping St-Laurent station, but how about Guy-Concordia, Papineau or Frontenac? If there's one thing that improved on the metro network with the years, it's the architecture (at least on an aesthetic if not practical point of view). Compare the original stations (the downtown core) to the rest and the contrast is quite sharp...

And I agree, at the very least they could make an effort to make Guy station (and other similarly-plagued stations) look like it isn't rotting away.

By: Jean Naimard

Jean Naimard — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:59:14 +0000

Half the Métro stations of the original network were designed by city engineers, and half by architects.For example, Guy was designed by engineers (and some art and decoration was slapped-on to make it less bland), and Peel by architects. Beaudry, Frontenac, Sauvé, Crémazie: engineers, Bonaventure, Atwater, Sherbrooke, Place d’Armes, Mont-Royal: architects.
Now, guess what previous experience with underground structures city engineers had before doing the Métro (wow! That’s a mouthful!)???
Sewers.
This is why half of the original stations look like sewers: they were made by sewer makers.

By: Alex T.

Alex T. — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:35:19 +0000

They even installed some of those things on the arriving platform at Cote-Vertu. Only readable if you're headed direction Cote-Vertu! (which means no one).