Living · Without a car · La Prairie · October 13, 2026
Metro, train, bus, bike, on foot: what the guide says about La Prairie, and a clear verdict: with a single car.
Living in La Prairie without a car. Verdict: With a single car. Route 132 and Highways 15 and 30 frame the city; exo buses connect to Brossard's REM and the Longueuil terminal; the nearest exo train station is in Candiac. The riverfront and its bike path, the parks and basins of Symbiocité, neighbourhood parks; the RécréoParc in Sainte-Catherine, with its beach, is next door. Pro: Old La Prairie and its charm, the river, and Symbiocité for new construction, in the same city. Con: The train station is in Candiac and the REM in Brossard: for the daily train, you need a car first. For those torn between character and new: La Prairie offers both in the same city, with the river.
Living in La Prairie 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 those torn between character and new: La Prairie offers both in the same city, with the river. Less so for those who depend on a daily train: the station is in Candiac, and the REM in Brossard.
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.
Route 132 and Highways 15 and 30 frame the city; exo buses connect to Brossard's REM and the Longueuil terminal; the nearest exo train station is in Candiac.
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. The train station is in Candiac and the REM in Brossard: for the daily train, you need a car first.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in La Prairie guide; the full pros and cons are in Living in La Prairie: the pros and cons, and the version with children in Living in La Prairie 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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