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As of November 6, the two elevators connecting the green line to the Berri-UQAM station will be in operation after two years of work.
Started in August 2028, the $28 million project also allowed:
- Repairing a portion if the mezzanine
- Installation of new wall finishes
- Continued roll-out of new signage
- Reconfiguration of fare sale and collection equipment
- Lighting improvements
- Renovation and redesign of shop fronts
- Installation of an Escale in the corridor leading to Place Dupuis, similar to the one in the Saint-Denis Street corridor
- Complete refurbishment of the two floor openings
- And more.
On the picture: Laurence Parent, Paratransit users' representative, and Philippe Schnobb, chairman of the STM's Board of directors
Summary of work to date
The first phase of refurbishment work at Berri-UQAM station was carried out from 2010 to 2017, at a cost of $87 million. This phase mainly involved refurbishments of the Berri, Place Dupuis, Sainte-Catherine and Saint-Denis entrance buildings, the pedestrian traffic areas, a section of the mezzanine and the Green, Orange and Yellow line platforms.
The work must be carried out at night, squeezed into a two-and-half-hour shift so as not to interfere with the métro service. This constraint, plus the fact the station has eight levels, explains the lengthy timeframe. Furthermore, Berri-UQAM is the busiest station in the system, with 12.6 million transit users passing through its turnstiles each year.
Berri-UQAM in numbers
- 31,269 m2 of station surface area (more than five football fields)
- Over 600 STM employees working inside the station
- 28 escalators
- 5 public elevators in operation, and 1 private
- 625 steps (more than double the number of Saint-Joseph’s Oratory)
- 6 levels with 2 others housing mechanical rooms
- 6 platforms plus connecting tracks
- 5 entrance buildings
- 27.4 metres depth from lower platform to an exit. Only Charlevoix station is deeper.
- 13 shops inside the station