The Pink Line (french: Ligne rose) is a new subway line proposal for the
Montreal Metro
The Montreal Metro (french: Métro de Montréal) is a rubber-tired underground rapid transit system serving Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The metro, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), was inaugurated on October 14, ...
in
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
. First proposed by municipal councillor Sylvain Ouellet in September 2011, the Pink Line in its current form was a "central campaign promise" of the
mayoral campaign of
Valérie Plante
Valérie Plante (born June 14, 1974) is a Canadian politician serving as the 45th and current mayor of Montreal since 2017. , leader of the political party
Projet Montréal and now
mayor of Montreal. The project was proposed to be finished by 2025, at a cost of an estimated C$5.9 billion.
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The project has since been added to Quebec's 10-year infrastructure plan, and feasibility studies for the line's western section began in June 2021.
The proposed route of the line would traverse many Montreal neighbourhoods. It would start in
Montreal North
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-pe ...
, and travel southwest through the city, with connections to the blue line extension,
Mont-Royal metro station, and
Place-des-Arts station
Place-des-Arts station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie (Montreal), Ville-Marie, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Line 1 Green (Montreal Metro), Gree ...
. Given this routing, the section from Montreal North to Pie-IX is generally seen as the successor to the cancelled
White Line originally proposed in the 1980s. A second phase of the project would travel southwest from Downtown Montreal, through
Westmount, the
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ( en, Our Lady of Grace), also nicknamed NDG, is a residential neighbourhood of Montreal in the city's West End, with a population of 166,520 (2016). An independent municipality until annexed by the City of Montreal in 1910, ...
neighbourhood,
Montreal West, and end at
Lachine.
This would be the first Montreal Metro line with above-ground stations.
List of stations
The pink line is proposed to have 29 stations, listed in the table below.
References
Montreal Metro
Proposed railway lines in Canada
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