3600 Van Horne #411 Montréal, QC H3S 1R6 (Canada) [At corner of Van Horne & Côte-des-Neiges] lat=45.501019725, lon=-73.6316481769 Busses 161 and 165 stop at the corner of Van Horne and Côte-des-Neiges. 3600 Van Horne is a 10-minute walk from two metro stations: [1] Plamondon (orange line); [2] Côte-des-Neiges (blue line)

3600 Van Horne is on the south(east) side of the street, the first door on the right coming from Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges. This location is about 4 km northwest from downtown Montreal (see here). The entrance to 3600 Van Horne is across the street from a Petro-Canada filling station and the Brochetterie Parthenon (Greek restaurant). If arriving by taxi, ask the driver to take you to “trois mille six cent Van ’orne, à l’angle de Côte-des-Neiges” or to “thirty-six hundred Van Horne, at the corner of Côte-des-Neiges”.

How to get to 3600 Van Horne [by car - on foot from Faculté de musique]

By public transport
• Bus 165 from city   • Métro via Plamondon   • Métro via Côte-des-Neiges   • Métro via Rosemont   • Bus 161  • Commuter train

To get to 3600 Van Horne from downtown Montreal you can either:

• (1) take the 165 bus (20 minutes) to Van Horne;
• (2) take the metro to Plamondon (orange line towards Côte Vertu, see metro map, map of Plamondon station) and then the 161 bus (4 minutes) or walk (10 minutes see map);
• (3) take the metro to Côte-des-Neiges and walk for 10 minutes (see map).

Bus 165 leaves the city centre outside metro Guy-Concordia (‘Sortie Guy’, see map, see departure times). It runs North[-west] up Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges and straight down the other side, stopping at the corner of Ch. de la Côte-des-Neiges and Van Horne (see map, above). The same route is followed by relief bus 535 during rush hours, and replaced by night bus 369 between 01:00 and 05:00 (departure times). [How to use your metro ticket on the bus and vice versa]

• See departure times from Guy-Concordia going North[-west]
• See departure times from the corner of Côte-des-Neiges and Van Horne going South(-east) towards the city centre.
• The 165 is replaced by night bus number 369.
• See public transport map and map of the area round Guy-Concordia.
• Arrival times at Van Horne from city on bus 165.

By metro from city centre via Plamondon.

Get in the back of a train going to Côte-Vertu on the orange line and get out at Plamondon (metro map). Use the back exit at Plamondon (“sortie Van Horne”, see map). Cross the street outside the metro station and take bus 161 (going left=East as you exit the metro). Depending on traffic the bus ride will take between 4 and 6 minutes. Departure times, bus 161 east from Plamondon (Van Horne & Victoria). You can also take the 10-minute walk east along Van Horne to number 3600. Get out at the corner of Côtes-des-Neiges and Van Horne

From metro station Côte-des-Neiges to 3600 Van Horne

• Get out at Côte des Neiges (see map). After the ticket barrier, take the left exit (Côte-des-Neiges Est) and turn right on leaving the station building.
• Either take the 165 bus (very frequent) from the stop just outside or walk down the hill until you get to Van Horne (10 mins; see map, above right).

From Jean-Talon or Parc metro stations, take the blue line (see metro map) towards Snowdon. You can then either:

• [1] get out at Outremont and take bus 161 (more details) from the other side of the street (Van Horne) to the corner of Côtes-des-Neiges or;
• [2] get out at Côte-des-Neiges, turn right down Chemin-de-la-Côte-des-Neiges until you get to Van Horne (7 minutes), then turn right. 3600 is the second door on the right.

From Rosemont (useful if you are using the Henri-Bourassa part of the orange metro line north of Mont-Royal):

• take bus 161 (more useful details) from its terminus just outside Rosemont station (see detailed map) all the way to Côte-des-Neiges (c 15 mins). Departure times bus 161 from Rosemont.

Bus 161, which runs the length of Van Horne every 12 minutes or so during the daytime and which passes just outside Plamondon, Outremont and Rosemont metro stations, stops at the corner of Côte-des-Neiges and Van Horne. Plamondon is useful useful if coming from the city centre, Outremont and Rosemont if coming from northern or eastern parts of the city. [How to use your metro ticket on the bus and vice versa]

Commuter train

It is a 16-minute walk to Canora station on the local line to/from Deux Montagnes. The 165 bus also connects the corner of Van Horne and Côte-des-Neiges with Mont Royal station on the Deux Montagnes line (at Dunkirk/Cornwall).

• Local map of area round Canora station and train departure times in both directions
• Local map of area round Mont Royal station and train departure times in both directions
• Departures bus 165 from Mont Royal towards Van Horne/Côte-des-Neiges

From the Faculté de musique  

It takes about 30 minutes to walk up hill to the Faculté de musique and about 25 minutes to walk home down the hill. It is a seven-minute drive in either direction.

• Go down Vincent d’Indy to the T-junction at Côte-Ste-Catherine. Turn left.
• Go along Côte-Ste-Catherine until you get to the lights just past the Greek Orthodox church. Turn right into Av. Wilderton.
• Follow Wilderton round two bends until you get to the next set of lights at Van Horne, opposite Pharmaprix and the rest of the Wilderton shopping centre to the left of it.
• Turn left on to Van Horne, past the shopping centre and Parc Mahatma Ghandi and past the lights at Darlington, Hudson and Decelles.
• 3600 Van Horne is about 10 metres before the corner of Côte-des-Neiges.

Driving to 3600 Van Horne

• from Autoroute Décarie (S)   • from Autoroute Décarie (N)   • from city centre

(a) from Autoroute Décarie

3600 Van Horne is easily reached from Autoroute Décarie, the sunken six-lane highway skirting the [south-]West of Central Montreal (see map).

Coming from the South on Décarie:

• On entering the short tunnel near the south end of Autoroute Décarie, ensure that you are in the nearside (right-hand side) lane.
• Immediately after the tunnel, take the exit ramp signposted Queen Mary. Do not turn right yet!
• Carry straight on Boulevard Décarie, which runs parallel with Autoroute Décarie (now below and to your left), until, after about two kilometres, you arrive at the intersection with Avenue Van Horne. At this point you should be in the right-hand lane.
• Turn right on to Van Horne, following it round a couple of slight bends, past a park on your right, then a shopping centre and metro station (Plamondon) on your left. Continue up the slope and flat past another set of lights until you arrive at the corner of Van Horne and Côte des Neiges (map).
• Parking.

Coming from the North on Décarie:

• Take the first exit, signposted Jean-Talon
• Continue straight on Boulevard Décarie (runs parallel to right of Autoroute Décarie) past three sets of traffic lights (1: Jean-Talon; 2: Vézina/Ferncroft; 3: Plamondon/Barclay]).
• At the Van Horne lights (I think they’re the fourth), turn left, bridging Autoroute Décarie, passing Plamondon metro station on your left, and crossing Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges (see map) (Parking).

(b) from city centre

From the [south-]West end of the city centre:

• Take Rue Guy up the hill. This becomes Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges.
• Continue until you reach the corner of Van Horne (see detailed map).

Parking

Iif not available close by on Van Horne, try Avenue Linton (parallel with Van Horne) or, if that fails, the part of Decelles between Linton and Parc Kent. Parking is not advised on Côte-des-Neiges see this map or this one or this one).

Montreal public transport tickets

For travel within the island of Montreal (includes downtown, chez Tagg and much more!) you can either buy an all-week card (carte hébdomodaire), or a strip of six tickets (lisière de tickets), or single tickets at any metro station.

The all-week card is simple. You just swipe it through the groove at metro station turnstiles and wave it in front of bus drivers.

With tickets the procedure is slightly more complicated.

On entering a metro station you put your ticket through the slot (not the long groove) provided at about knee height on the turnstile and walk through (the machine keeps your ticket), or you put it in the little transparent box at the ticket office and you will be let through manually.

On entering a bus you put your ticket in the slot machine by the driver. In return the driver will automatically give you an interchange ticket you can use at the metro station (see below).

If you want to first take the metro and then the bus, you must get an interchange ticket from inside the metro station, after you have passed through the turnstiles. Interchange ticket machines at metro stations are nondescript grey metal boxes. You press the white button on the machine and will receive an equally nondescript strip of white paper which you have to keep until you produce it for the driver on the bus you subsequently take.

If you want to first take a bus and then the metro, you keep the ticket the bus driver gives you in exchange for yours when you enter the bus and then insert the ticket he/she gave you in the appropriate slot at the metro station turnstile. Once inside the metro station you can then get yourself an interchange ticket for a second bus, if you need it (see above).