Griffintown–Bernard-Landry station

Griffintown–Bernard-Landry
Location	Dalhousie Street, Griffintown, Montreal Quebec Canada
Coordinates	45°29′47″N 73°33′32″W / 45.4963°N 73.5588°W / 45.4963; -73.5588
Operated by	CDPQ Infra
Platforms	2
Connections	STM buses
Other information
Website	Griffintown–Bernard-Landry (REM)
History
Opening	2023 (2023)
Future services
Preceding station REM Following station Central Station toward Deux-Montagnes, Anse-à-l'Orme or Airport Réseau express métropolitain Île-des-Soeurs toward Brossard

Griffintown–Bernard-Landry is a planned Réseau express métropolitain station in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is planned to be operated by CDPQ Infra and serve as a station on the South Shore branch of the REM.^[1]

Location[]

Proposed location on Peel Bassin[]

The station was initially tentatively named Bassin Peel station and was planned to be located on the of the Lachine Canal, near the site of the former Goose Village neighbourhood. There was speculation that the Peel Basin would serve as the future site for a baseball stadium serving as a home for a Major League Baseball team in Montreal. On February 12, 2019, the group seeking the return of an MLB team to Montreal, led by Stephen Bronfman, registered Pierre Boivin, the former president of the Montreal Canadiens, as a lobbyist to negotiate the sale of the Peel Basin to build a stadium. The land is currently under the control of the Canada Lands Company, a Federal Crown Corporation.^[2]

Relocation to Griffintown and naming controversy[]

In November 2019, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante first expressed a desire to name the station after the late Premier of Quebec, Bernard Landry, due to his involvement as Quebec's Minister of Finance, in the redevelopment of the area adjacent to Griffintown and the western portion of Old Montreal as the Cité du Multimédia, a business cluster for Information Technology companies.^[3] This sparked a backlash from the city's Irish community.^[4]

On June 23, 2020, it was announced that the station would be located on the Central Station train viaduct facing Dalhousie Street, between William Street and Ottawa Street in Griffintown.^[5] It was also announced that the station would be named Griffintown–Bernard-Landry as a compromise but the name still proved controversial.^[6]

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