Beaubien Metro station to close for entire summer of 2015

People living or working nearBeaubienMetro should get their alternate transportation plans ready theSTMis closing the station for most of May and all of June, July and August to perform repairs.

Montreal's transit authority has hired GroupeAxino Inc. to carry out $3.6-million worth of renovations to the station.

The STM says 75 per cent of that amount will be financed by Transports Qubec as part of the STM's Rno-Infrastructuresprogram.

The renovations atBeaubien Metro, which opened in 1966, will include installing a new ventilation shaft, replacing the stairs andfixing the floors and walls on the train platforms.

"Although the station is slated to reopen at the end of August, work will continue until January 2016," theSTMsaid in a news release.

There is no mention of whether the renovations include equipping thestation with a wheelchair-accessible elevator.

TheSTMwill run shuttle buses fromBeaubiento Jean-Talon andRosemontstations. The transit authority said the buses would run every two to six minutes during rush hour and at a minimum of 10-minute intervals the rest of the day.

In late 2014, the STM announced a new capital expenditures program for 2015-2017in which it projects spending $2.3billion on 46 different projects, including the purchase ofthe newAZURMetro cars and the completion ofrenovation work atBerri-UQAM.