Living · Without a car · Mirabel · October 13, 2026
Metro, train, bus, bike, on foot: what the guide says about Mirabel, and a clear verdict: a car is a must.
Living in Mirabel without a car. Verdict: A car is a must. Mirabel has no train station: exo Laurentides buses reach Blainville station, Saint-Jérôme station and Montmorency metro. Domaine-Vert park (trails, cross-country skiing, beach) and the Bois-de-Belle-Rivière regional park are the large spaces; the bike paths of the new neighbourhoods and the sector parks complete the offer. Pro: New or recent houses with garage and park, highway 15 and a price below Blainville. Con: No train or dense town: Mirabel is lived by car between sectors separated by fields. For families who want a new or recent house with a garage and a park, Highway 15 and a price below Blainville; for those working at the airport, in aerospace or in the Laurentians.
Living in Mirabel 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 Mirabel 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 new or recent house with a garage and a park, Highway 15 and a price below Blainville; for those working at the airport, in aerospace or in the Laurentians. Less so for those who want a train, an old village or a dense city: Mirabel is lived by car, between sectors separated by fields.
A car is a must. The guide names no metro, REM or train on foot, and says Mirabel is lived by car: you need one, sometimes two.
Mirabel has no train station: exo Laurentides buses reach Blainville station, Saint-Jérôme station and Montmorency metro. Highway 15 crosses Saint-Janvier and Domaine-Vert toward Laval and the Laurentians; Highway 50 links Saint-Canut and the airport to Lachute and Gatineau; Highway 640 is to the south.
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 or dense town: Mirabel is lived by car between sectors separated by fields.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Mirabel guide; the full pros and cons are in Living in Mirabel: the pros and cons, and the version with children in Living in Mirabel 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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