Jean-Talon station (Montreal Metro) Jean-Talon station (Montreal Metro) Jean-Talon is a station of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is located in the Little Italy district on the border between the boroughs of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie and Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is a transfer station between the Orange Line and Blue Line. The Orange Line station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the Metro. The original station was designed by Duplessis, Labelle et Derome. It is a normal side platform station built in a tunnel, with a
Yellow Line (Montreal Metro) place on April 1, 1967. In the first four weeks, the station on Saint Helen's Island served only the construction workers of the Expo site. It finally opened to the public on April 28, 1967, the day after the official opening of Expo 67. In June 2008 the City of Montreal proposed a number of service improvements and Metro extensions, including projecting the Yellow Line from Berri-UQAM to McGill station to ease congestion on that part of the Green Line. In December 2011, an extension to Longueuil was announced. The former Agence métropolitaine de transport (now ARTM) published a study,