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Laval Transportation

Transportation

Roads

Highways

  • A-13 (Chomedey Highway) - Montreal to Boisbriand
  • A-15 (Laurentian Highway) - New York state to Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts
  • A-19 (Papineau Highway) - Montreal to Boulevard Dagenais, continues as Route 335 to Bois-des-Filion and beyond
  • A-25 - Boucherville to Saint-Esprit via Montreal and the A-440 (Laval)
  • A-440 (Laval Freeway) – Laval

Provincial routes

  • Route 117 – Montreal to Ontario Highway 66 past Rouyn-Noranda
  • Route 125 – Montreal to Saint-Donat
  • Route 148 – Laval to Pembroke, Ontario
  • Route 335 – Montreal to the Lanaudière region past Saint-Calixte

Incidents

  • On June 18, 2000, during renovations to the Souvenir Boulevard overpass over Highway 15, the southern section collapsed onto the highway, causing the death of one person.
  • On September 30, 2006, the De la Concorde overpass over Autoroute 19 suddenly collapsed killing five people.

Public transit

Metro

  • In April 2007, the Montreal Metro was extended to Laval with three stations. The long-awaited stations were begun in 2003 and completed in April 2007, two months ahead of the revised schedule, at a cost of $803 million, funded entirely by the Quebec government. The stations are Cartier, De La Concorde, and Montmorency. The arrival of the metro in Laval was long awaited as it was first promised in the 1960s.
  • Public transit users must purchase the $109 per month (2009) TRAM-3 card to access the metro from Laval’s three new stations or pay $2.75 per trip towards Montreal since regular Montreal tickets and the CAM pass are not valid at the three new stations.
  • On July 22, 2007, the mayor of Laval, Gilles Vaillancourt, announced his wish to loop the Orange linefrom Montmorency to Cote-Vertu stations with the addition of six new stations (three in Laval and another three in Montreal). He proposes that Transports Quebec, the provincial transport department, set aside $100M annually to fund the project, which is expected to cost upwards of $1.5 billion

Commuter railway

The Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) operates two commuter train lines on the island. The Deux-Montagnes and Blainville-Saint-Jerome lines connect Laval to downtown Montreal in as little as 30 minutes. Including De la Concorde, there are currently five train stations.

Buses

See the Société de transport de Laval page for the public transit system. The STL’s network consists of 35 regular lines, two rush hour lines, two trainbus lines, three express lines, one community circuit and several taxi lines.

  • There are reserved lanes for buses and taxis on Chomedey Blvd between Le Carrefour Blvd and theDes Prairies River (Lachapelle Bridge) and beyond as well as along boulevard des Laurentides between rue Proulx and boulevard Cartier (the reserved lane, in this case for buses only, continues onto the Pont Viau bridge into Montreal until the Terminus Laval at the Henri-Bourassa metro station). Most buses that use the reserved lane end their journey at the Cartier metro station.
  • The AMT and the City of Laval have developed a reserved bus and taxi lane on Notre-Dame Boulevard between Vincent Massey Street and Place Alton-Goldbloom and another on De la Concorde Blvd between De l’Avenir and Laval Blvds, as well as between Ampere Ave and Roanne St. These reserved lanes (Notre-Dame and De la Concorde are the same boulevard but change name where they meet underAutoroute 15) opened shortly after October 31, 2007.