Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville is an ARTM bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure Metro station and Lucien-L'Allier Metro station on the Orange Line, and the Central Station in the city's downtown core. The terminus has 21 gates in three platforms: North, Centre and South.
History
Buses lines from the South Shore would start and end at De La Gauchetière Street in front of Place Bonaventure since at least 1974. Studies in the 1980’s recommended a more permanent terminus in the same area, while the Montreal Urban Community preferred that buses from Champlain Bridge stop at LaSalle metro station. Finally, in November 1985, the Société de transport de la rive-sud de Montréal inaugurated an open-air bus terminal using an old parking lot, on the same block where today’s terminus stands.In March 1989 the terminus was moved down temporarily to the block between St-Antoine and Viger, Busby and University streets, to allow construction of 1000 De La Gauchetière and the new terminus beneath it. The current terminus was inaugurated on May 12, 1992, with STRSM and CIT bus lines all moved by June.
Certain bus stops were moved to neighbouring streets in August 2009 due to lack of capacity within the terminus. In 2014, as projects for rebuilding the Turcot Interchange and Champlain Bridge loomed, government agencies identified the need to increase bus capacity downtown. To accommodate more buses than what the Terminus Centre-Ville could handle, the Agence métropolitain de transport opened a temporary outdoor bus terminal with 6 platforms one block south-east of TCV, Terminus Mansfield, on November 18, 2016.
After the Réseau express métropolitain started service on July 31, 2023, a non-compete clause meant most Réseau de transport de Longueuil and Exo bus services to the South Shore were rerouted to Panama and Brossard stations. Terminus Mansfield was closed and remaining bus lines were moved back into TCV. Today, only a few bus lines still serve the facility.