Living · Without a car · Saint-Lazare and Hudson · October 13, 2026
Metro, train, bus, bike, on foot: what the guide says about Saint-Lazare and Hudson, and a clear verdict: with a single car.
Living in Saint-Lazare and Hudson without a car. Verdict: With a single car. Hudson station is the terminus of the exo Vaudreuil-Hudson line (limited service beyond Vaudreuil); the Vaudreuil and Dorion stations are a few kilometres away. Saint-Lazare's riding and walking trails, Lac des Deux Montagnes and Sandy Beach in Hudson, Mont Rigaud and its trails are the large spaces; the Hudson Village Theatre, the golf courses, the stables, the arenas and the pools complete the offer. Pro: Space, woods, horses, an English-speaking lakeside village in Hudson, and the West Island twenty minutes away. Con: Lived by car: the Hudson train is rare, and there are no condos or services on foot. For families who want space, horses, woods and an anglophone village on the lake, with the budget for a $750,000 house or more; for those working in the West Island or Vaudreuil.
Living in Saint-Lazare and Hudson 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 families who want space, horses, woods and an anglophone village on the lake, with the budget for a $750,000 house or more; for those working in the West Island or Vaudreuil. Less so for those who want a frequent train, a condo or services on foot: the sector is lived by car, and its high end negotiates.
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.
Hudson station is the terminus of the exo Vaudreuil-Hudson line (limited service beyond Vaudreuil); the Vaudreuil and Dorion stations are a few kilometres away. Exo La Presqu'Île buses link Saint-Lazare and Hudson to Vaudreuil. Highway 40 runs along the north of the sector toward Montreal and Ontario; route de la Cité-des-Jeunes leads to Vaudreuil and the 30. The Hudson-Oka ferry links the north shore in summer.
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. Lived by car: the Hudson train is rare, and there are no condos or services on foot.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Saint-Lazare and Hudson guide; the full pros and cons are in Living in Saint-Lazare and Hudson: the pros and cons, and the version with children in Living in Saint-Lazare and Hudson 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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