Living · Without a car · Chambly · October 13, 2026
Metro, train, bus, bike, on foot: what the guide says about Chambly, and a clear verdict: a car is a must.
Living in Chambly without a car. Verdict: A car is a must. Highway 10 leads to the Champlain Bridge; Route 112 reaches Longueuil; exo buses connect to the Longueuil terminal and the metro. The Chambly basin and Fort Chambly are the heart of leisure: promenade, sailing, skating in winter; the Chambly canal can be cycled to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu; neighbourhood parks are numerous in the recent sectors. Pro: The Chambly Basin, the fort, the canal and a lively old village, with a family house below Brossard prices. Con: No train: the trip to Montreal depends on highway 10 and the Champlain Bridge, saturated at rush hour. For those who want water, history and a family home below Brossard's price, with the South Shore's strongest annual increase (+10 % in Q2).
Living in Chambly 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 Chambly 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 those who want water, history and a family home below Brossard's price, with the South Shore's strongest annual increase (+10 % in Q2). Less so for those who do not want to drive: without a train, the trip to Montreal depends on the 10.
A car is a must. The guide names no metro, REM or train on foot, and says Chambly is lived by car: you need one, sometimes two.
Highway 10 leads to the Champlain Bridge; Route 112 reaches Longueuil; exo buses connect to the Longueuil terminal and the metro. There is no train: Chambly is lived by car for work in Montreal.
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 train: the trip to Montreal depends on highway 10 and the Champlain Bridge, saturated at rush hour.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Chambly guide; the full pros and cons are in Living in Chambly: the pros and cons, and the version with children in Living in Chambly 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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