Living · Without a car · Anjou · October 13, 2026
Metro, train, bus, bike, on foot: what the guide says about Anjou, and a clear verdict: a car is a must.
Living in Anjou without a car. Verdict: A car is a must. Anjou has no metro yet: buses on Joseph-Renaud, des Galeries-d'Anjou and Jarry reach Radisson, Langelier and Honoré-Beaugrand stations (green line). Parc Lucie-Bruneau and Parc Goncourt are the large green spaces; Parc Roger-Rousseau, with its arena and pool, is the sports centre; the Hydro-Québec corridor bike path crosses the borough. Pro: A suburban house with garage without leaving the island, next to highways 40 and 25, the Galeries d'Anjou and large parks. Con: No metro until the Blue Line arrives: Anjou is lived by car, and the bus is the only public transit. For families who want a suburban house with a garage without leaving the island, next to the highways, the Galeries and the parks; for those who work in Laval, on the North Shore or in the industrial east.
Living in Anjou without a car: what our neighbourhood guide says about the metro, the train, the bus, the bike lanes and what is done on foot, then a clear verdict, deduced from a rule we write out in full. No commute time is invented: the sentences are the guide's, and the figures are those published by the APCIQ.
The guide names no metro, REM or train on foot, and says Anjou is lived by car: you need one, sometimes two.
"Without a car, yes" when the guide names a metro, a REM or a train serving the neighbourhood, without the guide saying it is lived by car. "With a single car" when the guide names only the bus, or a train that neighbourhood life is not enough to replace. "A car is a must" when no metro, REM or train serves the neighbourhood on foot and the guide says it is lived by car. The rule is the same for all 53 neighbourhoods; it does not replace your real commute on a Tuesday morning.
For families who want a suburban house with a garage without leaving the island, next to the highways, the Galeries and the parks; for those who work in Laval, on the North Shore or in the industrial east. Less so for those who want to walk to the metro (not before 2031) or a neighbourhood shopping street: Anjou is lived by car.
A car is a must. The guide names no metro, REM or train on foot, and says Anjou is lived by car: you need one, sometimes two.
Anjou has no metro yet: buses on Joseph-Renaud, des Galeries-d'Anjou and Jarry reach Radisson, Langelier and Honoré-Beaugrand stations (green line). The Anjou terminus of the blue line extension, planned for 2031 near the Galeries d'Anjou, will change the equation. By road, Anjou is one of the best-placed boroughs on the island: Highway 25 to Laval and the bridge-tunnel, Highway 40 to the centre and the east.
The real commute to work on a Tuesday morning, at rush hour, and the walking distance to the grocery store, the school and the daycare from the shortlisted street: two streets in the same neighbourhood are not equal. No metro until the Blue Line arrives: Anjou is lived by car, and the bus is the only public transit.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Anjou guide; the full pros and cons are in Living in Anjou: the pros and cons, and the version with children in Living in Anjou with a family. All 53 neighbourhoods are ranked in living without a car in Greater Montreal.
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Published September 7, 2026 by the Loaa & Manseur team, the number 1 team at RE/MAX Platine in 2024 and 2025, 6th RE/MAX team in Quebec, 15th in Canada and in the global top 50 according to the official RE/MAX ranking. Tell us about your project.
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