Montreal Metro | A portion of the green line stopped until Saturday morning

After the blue line, it is the turn of the green line of the Montreal metro to be affected by breakdowns. Friday evening, hundreds of people had to take a shuttle to Angrignon, at the Lionel-Groulx station, due to unresolved water infiltration since the morning.

The incident forced the interruption of service between the Angrignon and Berri-UQAM stations since 10:22 a.m. At 7 p.m., the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) indicated on less until the end of metro service [vendredi] evening “.

“I must have been waiting for a good hour and a half, luckily it didn’t happen on Halloween,” said Samia Lalie, who was returning from work around 5 p.m.

Between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., the line of users who wanted to go towards the west of the city circled the Lionel-Groulx station entrance, from Atwater Avenue to Saint-Jacques Street . All around, dozens of people on the phone, dissatisfied, were trying to reach a loved one by telephone to inform them of the situation. Others, when they left the metro, were stunned to see what awaited them.

Valeria Neault and Olivia Beauregard arrived from Cégep Saint-Laurent, where they study. Valeria had seen that service on the green line had been interrupted in the morning, but had no idea that it would continue until the end of the day. “We’ll probably walk, and take another bus further away,” she suggested to her friend.

Special constables as well as STM agents were present outside the station to give directions to users.

People who wanted to go to the Berri-UQAM station were invited to take the orange line, which was not affected by the outage.

An unresolved breakage

Originally, the water infiltration occurred due to a water main break on Boulevard de Maisonneuve, between Elm and Greene streets, near the Lionel-Groulx station, the STM said in a press release.

“The problem persists due, in particular, to the significant flow coming from the aqueduct network,” she added. The City of Westmount is responsible for the aqueduct repair work. Excavation work must be carried out to reach the valve first.

In the metro, the water will have to be completely pumped before resuming service due to the numerous electrical installations in the metro.

An eventful Friday

In total, three interruptions were announced this Friday, before the STM closed the section of the green line for an indefinite period. At 6 a.m. Friday morning, water infiltration caused the first service interruption.

“We had installed corrugated panels to prevent the accumulation of water, but as these did not hold, there was a new leak,” explained the transport company.

In the evening, the other portion of the green line, between Berri-UQAM and Honoré-Beaugrand, was stopped for around thirty minutes, due to an unauthorized person on the track. .

All this occurs while on the blue line, the Saint-Michel station, closed for a month due to the significant deterioration of a beam, is still not close to welcoming users again. In an update on the progress of the work last week, the STM spoke of an upcoming reopening in the “coming weeks”.