Montreal

Saint-Michel Metro station reopens today after month-long shutdown

The Saint-Michel Metro station has been closed since Oct. 3 due to safety reasons. The Montreal transit authority says the station will reopen at 10 a.m. on Monday.

Service at the station will resume at 10 a.m. on Monday

A commuter stands on the platform as a Montreal Metro whips by.
Last month, work at the Saint-Michel Metro station revealed significant degradation of main beams above the walkway, prompting the transit authority to shut down the station as well as two others on the Blue line. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada)

After being closed for than a month, the Saint-Michel Metro station will reopen Monday as of 10 a.m.

On Oct 3., the Montreal transit authority shut down that station as well as two others on the Blue line — Fabre and d'Iberville — after engineering teams found significant degradation of the main beams above the walkway at the Saint-Michel station.

The Fabre and d'Iberville closures were necessary "given the location of track equipment needed for train turnarounds," the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) said at the time.

Six days later, those two stations were reopened, but Saint-Michel station remain closed. 

On Monday morning, the STM said in a statement that work has since been carried out on two beams under the main staircase at the Saint-Michel station, which is located above the train tracks.

The shuttle bus service that had been put in place to compensate for the closure will end as of 11 a.m.