Bois-Franc (AMT)

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Bois-Franc is a commuter rail station on the AMT Deux-Montagnes Line in the Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada area. The Bois-Franc station was intended to be an intermodal station with the Orange Line which was to have extended into Laval at this end. Bois-Franc is in Fare Zone 2.

Contents 1 Origin of name 2 Location 3 Connections 3.1 Bus routes 3.1.1 AMT 3.1.2 STM 3.1.3 STL 4 External links

[edit] Origin of name

Bois-Franc takes its name from the nearby Bois-Franc residential development, itself named for chemin du Bois-Franc, the original name of the stretch of boulevard Henri-Bourassa through this area, as Henri-Bourassa ended at the Laurentien Autoroute. Bois Franc was also the original name of the nearby pioneer airstrip that later was known as Cartierville Airport, unitl its closing in the 1980s.

Prior to the modernization of the Deux-Montagnes Line, between 1993 and 1995, the station was named Val-Royal; the original Val-Royal Station was demolished by vandals on June 5, 1995.

[edit] Location

The station is located at 5465 Henri-Bourassa Boulevard West in Saint-Laurent on the border with Cartierville. It is located near Henri-Bourassa Boulevard West, between Marcel-Laurin Boulevard/Boulevard Laurentien (Quebec route 117) and Grenet Street.

• 45°31′23″N, 73°42′33″W

[edit] Connections

[edit] Bus routes

[edit] AMT

(operated by STL)

• 902 Express Le Carrefour, to/from Terminus Le Carrefour at the Le Carrefour Laval and Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station

[edit] STM

• 64 Grenet to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station
• 126 Polyvalente-Emile-Legault -- School Special
• 164 Dudemaine to/from Terminus Henri-Bourassa Sud (also stops at Bois-de-Boulogne on the Blainville Line).
• 170 Keller to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station
• 215 Henri-Bourassa to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station and Fairview Mall in Pointe Claire
• 382 Pierrefonds to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station - night service only.

[edit] STL

All Routes going to, or coming from, Laval cannot pick up passengers for Montreal-only trips.

• 44, to/from Gare Sainte-Dorothée and Henri-Bourassa Terminus Nord
• 46, to/from Terminus Saint-Eustache in Saint-Eustache and Henri-Bourassa Terminus Nord
• 55, to/from Laval-Ouest and Henri-Bourassa Terminus Nord
• 144, to/from Gare Sainte-Dorothée and Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station
• 151, to/from Sainte-Rose and Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station

The first 2 lines above will no longer pass at Bois-Franc when the Montreal metro extends into the city of Laval [1].

[edit] External links

• Official website (In French)

AMT Commuter Rail: Deux-Montagnes Line

Gare Centrale | Canora | Mont-Royal | Montpellier | Du Ruisseau | Bois-Franc Sunnybrooke | Roxboro | Île-Bigras | Sainte-Dorothée | Grand-Moulin | Deux-Montagnes