page_title: Berri–UQAM station
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Berri–UQAM station / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Berri-UQàM station
context_page_description: Berri–UQAM 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 is the system's central station. This station is served by the Green, Orange, and Yellow lines. It is located in the Quartier Latin.
  Berri–UQAM is the 2nd deepest station in the network, and the only one to have 3 lines servicing it. Berri–UQAM is also the busiest station in the network, transfers not included. If transfers were included, the 13 million passengers number would rise to about 35-40 million a year.
context_section_description: Designed by Longpré and Marchand, the station serves three lines: the Green, Orange, and Yellow lines.
  The main part of the station is a cruciform cut and cover volume built underneath the intersection of rue Berri and boul. de Maisonneuve; the volume is so large that the station's design had to include massive pillars to support the street.
  This central volume contains three levels. The upper level contains the rectangular mezzanine at its centre, with fare gates on all four sides; the arms extend out to the station's entrances, with two more entrances at the crossing, and are also lined with shops and services.
  Staircases lead from the mezzanine to the landings on either side of the Orange Line. These landings provide views of the great volumes over the Green Line platforms below.
  From the Green Line level, escalators and hallways connect the rest of the station to the Yellow Line terminus, built in a tunnel a block away under rue Saint-Denis. Due to limited space in the tail tracks, trains reverse both in the tail tracks and in the foretracks leaving the station.
  All three lines have side platforms. This station was the first to be equipped with the MétroVision information screens which displays news, commercials, and the time until the next train arrives.
  In 2009, the station was made partially wheelchair-accessible through the addition of elevators. Two elevators now connect the Orange Line platforms to the mezzanine. The other two lines are not yet accessible. The mezzanine can be accessed from the street via elevators in the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec and UQAM's Pavillon Judith-Jasmin; however, these buildings are not open throughout the Metro's operating hours. However, there is an elevator in the Saint-Denis exit that opened in June 2010.
  The station has 5 entrances:
  1470, rue Saint-Denis
  1500, rue Berri
  1635, rue Berri
  850, boul. de Maisonneuve est
  505, rue Sainte-Catherine est
caption: Green Line platform
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