Lionel-Groulx
The floor looks like autumn leaves, and switching metro lines here costs you nothing but a few sideways steps.
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Montreal's neatest piece of transit engineering: Green and Orange lines stack on two levels, arranged so most transfers happen by crossing the platform — no stairs required. Designed by Yves Roy and opened in 1978, it was the city's second transfer station ever and, in 2009, the first existing station retrofitted with full elevator access from street to every platform.
What to look for
- Circular tiles in orange, yellow, and red on the platform floor, designed to recall autumn maple leaves carpeting the city's sidewalks
- The stacked split: inbound trains (Montmorency and Honoré-Beaugrand) run on the upper level, outbound (Côte-Vertu and Angrignon) below
- The mezzanine suspended on beams above the upper platform, feeding down to a single street entrance on Atwater Avenue
Valid STM fare required; station sits on Atwater Avenue on the Saint-Henri and Little Burgundy border in Le Sud-Ouest.
Lionel-Groulx is one of 14 sights worth the detour in Montreal, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Montreal pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Montreal
- Circuit Gilles VilleneuveThe track where Gilles Villeneuve beat the world on home soil in 1978 — and it now carries his name.
- Olympic StadiumThe stadium that cost so much, Montreal renamed it "The Big Owe."
- Bell CentreCanada's largest indoor arena holds 20,962 people — and on a Canadiens night, the noise travels several city blocks.
- Habitat 67A McGill thesis project that actually got built — 354 prefabricated concrete boxes stacked into homes on the Saint Lawrence for a 1967 World's Fair.
- Notre-Dame BasilicaDeep blue vaults scattered with gold stars, and a 7,000-pipe organ that fills every corner of it.
- Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsCanada's oldest art museum, founded in 1860, now sprawls across five pavilions and draws more visitors than any other art museum in the country.