page_title: McGill station
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: McGill station / Overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Concourse of McGill Montreal Metro Station 中文（香港）‎: 蒙特利爾地鐵麥基爾站大堂
context_page_description: McGill station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal and serves the Green Line. The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the Metro. It is currently the second busiest station in the network measured by number of passengers entering the system. Prior to 2002, it was the busiest station in the network.
context_section_description: Designed by Crevier, Lemieux, Mercier and Caron, it is a normal side platform station built in open cut under boul. De Maisonneuve, with two ticket halls joined by corridors that surround the platforms. The ticket halls are linked to the platforms by four stairways per platform, including the shortest escalators in the network. The station has large pillars, which were originally painted orange, but painted in beer bottle green color in the late 1990s. In January 2010 the STM repainted the station in its original colors being orange pillars and yellow walls.
  As an important part of the underground city, the station has had its mezzanine level substantially enlarged since its opening, by construction of new buildings around the station: the western end of the mezzanine was added with the construction of the Tour BNP and Eaton Centre, while the southern corridor between the ticket halls was added to link the Promenades de la Cathédrale (now known as Promenades Cathédrale) with the station.
  No fewer than six buildings are directly connected to the station via underground city, and one, the Eaton Centre, has an entrance directly on the Honoré-Beaugrand platform. (Another access to 2020 de Maisonneuve from the Angrignon platform has been closed.) The station has a further six direct street-level entrances, all of which are integrated into the façades of other buildings.
  Among this busy station's amenities include several shops and services directly in the station, including a Tim Hortons, Second Cup, Carlton Cards, a Scotiabank, two Pizza Shops, a web terminal, and MétroVision information screens which displays news, commercials, and the time till the next train. This was second station after Berri-UQAM to have them installed.  At one time an "open-concept" branch of the Montreal public library was located next to the exit onto rue Université.
  The station has 6 entrances:
  690, De Maisonneuve Ouest
  640, boul. de Maisonneuve ouest
  811, boul. de Maisonneuve ouest
  2055, rue University
  2021, av. Union
  1445, av. Union
caption: McGill station concourse.(The previous green coloured pillars can be seen in the background)
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