The Pink Line () was a subway line proposal for the Montreal Metro in Quebec. First proposed by municipal councillor Sylvain Ouellet in September 2011, the Pink Line in a modified form was a "central campaign promise" of the mayoral campaign of Valérie Plante, leader of the political party Projet Montréal and mayor of Montreal from 2017 to 2025.
The project was initially projected to cost and scheduled to open in 2025. The project was subsequently added to Quebec's 10-year infrastructure plan, and feasibility studies for the line's western section began in June 2021. Since then, the project has been altered and a competing segment on the REM has also been proposed, bringing into question as to what form the Pink Line will take. As late as 2024, the project remained in the official transit plan, but there was never a timeline as to when it would be built.
The proposed route of the line would traverse many Montreal neighbourhoods. It would start in Montreal North, and travel southwest through the city, with connections to the blue line extension, Mont-Royal metro station, and Place-des-Arts station. Given this routing, the section from Montreal North to Pie-IX is generally seen as the successor to the cancelled White Line originally proposed in the 1980s. A second phase of the project would travel southwest from Downtown Montreal, through Westmount, the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, Montreal West, and end at Lachine. This would be the first Montreal Metro line with above-ground stations.
Stations
A total of 29 stations along the Pink Line were proposed in 2017.
Station Borough or town Location Connection Type 1 Montreal North Léger & Langelier Boulevards Underground 2 Rolland Boulevard Underground 3 Place Bourassa Underground 4 Saint-Léonard Saint-Léonard–Montréal-Nord station Mascouche line Underground 5 Viau & Lavoisier Underground 6 Saint-Michel Jarry & Pie-IX/Provencher Underground 7 Jean-Talon & Pie-IX (Vertières Station) Blue Line (Under construction) Underground 8 Rosemont Collège de Rosemont Underground 9 Rosemont & St-Michel Boulevards Underground 10 Masson Underground 11 d'Iberville & St-Joseph Underground 12 Plateau-Mont-Royal Mt-Royal Avenue & Papineau/De Lorimier Underground 13 Mont-Royal Station Orange Line Underground 14 Saint-Laurent Boulevard & Rachel Underground 15 Pine & Park Avenues Underground 16 Ville-Marie Place-des-Arts station Green Line Underground 17 Complexe Guy-Favreau and Palais des congrès Underground 18 Montreal Central Station Réseau express métropolitain Underground 19 E-Commerce Place, René-Lévesque Boulevard Underground 20 Canadian Centre for Architecture Underground 21 Westmount Greene Avenue Surface 22 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Vendôme station Orange Line Surface 23 Regent Street Surface 24 Cavendish Boulevard Surface 25 Montréal-Ouest station Exo commuter rail Surface 26 Lachine Old Ville Saint-Pierre Underground 27 Victoria & George-V Streets Surface 28 Victoria Street & LaSalle Park Surface 29 Victoria Street & 32nd Avenue Underground
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