Bois-Franc (AMT)

Bois-Franc AMT (Commuter)
Station statistics
Address	5465, boul. Henri-Bourassa Ouest, Saint-Laurent, QC
Coordinates	45°31′23″N 73°42′35″W
Connections	STM buses   Société de transport de Laval
Parking	764 park-and-ride places
Bicycle facilities	21 place bicycle racks
Other information
Electrified	25 kV AC 60 Hz catenary
Fare zone	2
Formerly	Lazard, Val-Royal
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	707,200 (AMT)
Services
Preceding station   AMT   Following station Sunnybrooke toward Deux-Montagnes Deux-Montagnes Du Ruisseau toward Montreal

Bois-Franc is a commuter rail station on the AMT Deux-Montagnes Line in the Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada area. The Orange Line of the Montreal Metro was to have been extended to de Salaberry Street at the corner of Laurentian Boulevard, but that would have been too far away to have made an intermodal station possible.

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, which had previously ended at the Laurentien Autoroute. Bois Franc was also the original name of the nearby pioneer airstrip that later was known as Cartierville Airport, until its closing in the 1980s.

History

The original station was named Lazard (likely for the merchant bank Lazard Frères & Co. which underwrote the construction of the Mount Royal Tunnel on this railline). In 1926 the station was renamed Val-Royal. After the modernization of the Deux-Montagnes Line, between 1993 and 1995, a new station named Bois-Franc was built; the original station was then demolished at the request of the Canadian National Railway and with the permission of Transport Canada, on June 5, 1995.

Location

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

Cartierville branch and station

A single-track electrified (2400 V DC) branch to Cartierville, a relic of when the line terminated there in Canadian Northern Railway days, left the line at (then) Val-Royal station. In later Canadian National years, only one rush-hour trip in each direction existed. It was abandoned in the early 1980s when STM predecessor STCUM took over operation of the Deux-Montagnes line. The Cartierville station was located at the corner of West Gouin and Laurentian boulevards.

Connecting bus routes

Société de transport de Montréal

Main articles: Société de transport de Montréal and List of Montreal bus routes

STM Regular Bus Routes
No.	Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
64	Grenet (to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station)	Map	Schedule
126	Polyvalente-Emile-Legault -- School Special	Map	Schedule
164	Dudemaine (to/from Terminus Henri-Bourassa Sud) (also stops at Bois-de-Boulogne on the Blainville-Saint-Jerome Line).	Map	Schedule
170	Keller (to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station)	Map	Schedule
215	Henri Bourassa, 100 m south on boulevard Henri-Bourassa / boulevard Marcel-Laurin (to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station and Terminus Fairview)	Map	Schedule
468	Trainbus Pierrefonds, 100 m south on rue Grenet at boulevard Henri-Bourassa to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station and the filtration station on boulevard Gouin in Pierrefonds-Roxboro.	Map	Schedule
STM Night Bus Routes
No.	Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
382	Pierrefonds (to/from Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station).	Map	Schedule

Société de transport de Laval

Main article: Société de transport de Laval

Société de transport de Laval
No.	Route Description	Route Map (Click on "Route map")	Schedule
55	to/from Laval-Ouest and Henri-Bourassa Terminus Nord via Gare Du Ruisseau and via Gare Bois-de-Boulogne. The stops are on Grenet Street.	Map	Schedule, north bound South bound
144	to/from Sainte-Dorothée, Chomedey, and Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station. The stops are on Marcel Laurin Boulevard.	Map	Schedule, west bound East bound
151	to/from Chomedey, Fabreville, Sainte-Rose and Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station. The stops are on Marcel Laurin Boulevard.	Map	Schedule, north bound South bound
902	to/from Terminus Le Carrefour at Le Carrefour Laval and Terminus Côte-Vertu at the Côte-Vertu Metro station. The stops are on Marcel Laurin Boulevard.	Map	Schedule, north bound South bound
All bus routes coming from Laval cannot pick up passengers for Montreal-only trips. The same routes will pick up passengers for trips heading back to Laval but will not allow passengers to descend until it reaches Laval. Route No. 46 no longer passes by this station, AMT has neglected to bring this up to date on their website.

See also

• Montreal metro Future projects
• Future Line 2 orange of the (West Branch to East Branch)

External links

Media related to Bois-Franc (AMT) at Wikimedia Commons

• Bois Franc
• STL 2011 map