Living · Without a car · Fabreville · October 13, 2026
Metro, train, bus, bike, on foot: what the guide says about Fabreville, and a clear verdict: with a single car.
Living in Fabreville without a car. Verdict: With a single car. Fabreville has no station of its own: Sainte-Rose station (exo Saint-Jérôme line) is at the eastern limit, and STL buses reach the Montmorency terminus. The Rivière des Mille Îles banks and the Bois de l'Équerre, at the Sainte-Rose limit, are the large spaces; neighbourhood parks, the arena and the pool complete the offer. Pro: The cheapest house with land in Laval, near highways 13 and 440 and the Rivière des Mille Îles. Con: Functional, with no old village or shopping street: shops are on the boulevards and you get around by car. For first-time buyers and families who want a house with a lot in Laval under $600,000, near the highways and the river; for investors who renovate bungalows.
Living in Fabreville 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 the bus, or a train that neighbourhood life is not enough to replace: a household lives here with a single car, not without one.
"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 first-time buyers and families who want a house with a lot in Laval under $600,000, near the highways and the river; for investors who renovate bungalows. Less so for those who want a train on foot, an old village or a recent house: Fabreville is functional, family-oriented and fast, and you must offer quickly.
With a single car. The guide names the bus, or a train that neighbourhood life is not enough to replace: a household lives here with a single car, not without one.
Fabreville has no station of its own: Sainte-Rose station (exo Saint-Jérôme line) is at the eastern limit, and STL buses reach the Montmorency terminus. Highway 13 crosses the sector toward Chomedey, the airport and the Louis-Bisson Bridge; Highway 440 leads to the Carrefour Laval and Highway 15.
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. Functional, with no old village or shopping street: shops are on the boulevards and you get around by car.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Fabreville guide; the full pros and cons are in Living in Fabreville: the pros and cons, and the version with children in Living in Fabreville 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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