Do you live in Chambly and have your eye on a new semi-detached home near Chambly? Before you even open the floor plans, a practical question comes up: how long does it take to get from Chambly to Sainte-Julie, and which way should you go?

The routes below were calculated with OSRM, a routing engine built on OpenStreetMap data. Starting point: Chambly's municipal service centre at 56 rue Martel. Destination: Geoffrion Street, home to BÉAcité's model home and sales office. The result: 28.1 km by road for 15.9 km as the crow flies, and about 26 minutes behind the wheel.

One caveat: these times assume an empty road. At rush hour, on Highway 30 as on Highway 20, the trip takes longer. Treat them as benchmarks, not commitments.

The fastest route: Route 112, the A-30 and the A-20

This is the route the calculation picks by default. It swings through Saint-Hubert to reach the highways:

leave the town centre by avenue De Salaberry, then follow boulevard De Périgny (routes 112 and 223) for about 1.6 km;
carry on along chemin de Chambly, still Route 112, through Carignan (about 3.3 km), then along boulevard Cousineau in Longueuil's Saint-Hubert borough (about 3.4 km);
get on Highway 30 East, the Autoroute de l'Acier, at exit 73, and drive about 8.6 km alongside Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville;
at exit 83, take Highway 20 East (Autoroute Jean-Lesage) for about 6.3 km, as far as exit 105;
follow rue Bernard-Pilon and montée des Quarante-Deux, which together form Route 229, then avenue des Bâtisseurs to Geoffrion Street.

On the way back, you simply reverse it: Highway 20 West, exit 98 toward Highway 30, then exit 73 toward Route 112. That is 27.8 km and, once again, about 26 minutes.

No highways: through Carignan and Saint-Basile-le-Grand

Prefer local roads? A second route, shorter in kilometres but slower, runs through Carignan and then Saint-Basile-le-Grand:

boulevard De Périgny, then chemin de Chambly (Route 112) for about 2.2 km;
chemin Bellevue in Carignan for about 4.6 km, then chemin and rue Bella-Vista into Saint-Basile-le-Grand;
rue Principale, montée Robert and a short stretch of boulevard Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier (Route 116), before picking up rue Principale northbound again;
chemin Trudeau, then Route 229, which crosses the exit 105 interchange and leads into the Vilamo neighbourhood.

The bottom line: 24.6 km and about 32 minutes without traffic. Six minutes more than via Highway 30, but without a single highway ramp to deal with.

How long from your part of town

A few minutes separate the different parts of town. Here are more benchmarks, still without traffic:

city hall, 1 place de la Mairie: 27.9 km, about 25 minutes;
Fort Chambly, 2 rue De Richelieu: 29.2 km, about 27 minutes;
Chambly terminus, at the corner of boulevards Fréchette and Brassard: 29.7 km, about 29 minutes.

What about Highway 10? That is Chambly's road to Montreal, not to Sainte-Julie. Forced along the 10 and then the 30, the trip climbs to 48.3 km and about 44 minutes: a detour, nothing more.

From Chambly to Sainte-Julie by bus: possible, but slow

Let's be frank: without a car, the trip takes patience. According to exo's official schedules, no single route serves both towns. Two transfers are possible:

on weekdays, route 481 links the Chambly terminus to the Brossard terminus in 14 or 15 minutes; route 600 then takes over to the Sainte-Julie terminus, in 22 to 29 minutes. Including the transfer, allow 45 to 60 minutes in most cases, and up to 78 minutes depending on the time of day;
on weekends, route 680 stops at Promenades St-Bruno, which is also served by route 340 toward Sainte-Julie. With only four departures each way on the 340, the best trip found takes 40 minutes, others more than an hour.

That still leaves 5.8 km between the Sainte-Julie terminus and Geoffrion Street, served on weekdays by the T34 taxibus, by reservation only. For a visit, then, driving is the realistic option. The good news: in Chambly as in Sainte-Julie, the local bus is free for everyone, at all times.

And what about getting to work?

In the 2021 Census, 70.6% of Chambly workers with a usual place of work had that job outside the Vallée-du-Richelieu regional county municipality, and 43.9% of commuters spent 30 minutes or more getting there, compared with 30.2% in Sainte-Julie. Driving is already part of daily life for many Chambly families.

One clarification, though: moving to Geoffrion Street does not bring you closer to downtown Montreal. Without traffic, Central Station is about 30 minutes from Chambly city hall and about 32 minutes from Geoffrion Street. The Longueuil terminus is a little closer to Sainte-Julie (about 21 minutes against 25), while the Brossard terminus is clearly closer to Chambly (about 17 minutes against 25). It all depends on where you work.

If the kilometres weigh on your week, working from home part of the time can make a real difference: our article on the house with home office near Chambly looks at where a workspace can fit in a BÉAcité home.

Visiting the model home on Geoffrion Street

Once you have picked your route, there is the destination itself: the sales office at 435 Geoffrion Street, where visitors are welcomed. Among the turnkey homes, the one at 423 is a three-bedroom Duo with a custom wine cellar, an open office for working from home and a finished basement. All four, at 405, 408, 423 and 435, can be toured by reservation.

Sales office hours:

Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.;
evenings, Saturday and Sunday, by appointment.

When you leave Highway 20 at exit 105, follow the signs for the Vallée-du-Richelieu golf club, then the BÉAcité project signs. To set up a time, contact Eddy Guessous, sales director, at 514-812-9633 by phone or text, or at ventes@beacite.com.

Bringing the kids along? Our article on the family semi-detached home near Chambly suggests a few things to look at during the visit: storage, the yard, natural light and shared living spaces.

Conclusion

From Chambly to Sainte-Julie, allow about 26 minutes without traffic via Route 112 and highways 30 and 20, or about 32 minutes through Carignan and Saint-Basile-le-Grand if you would rather avoid the highway. The bus, on the other hand, means a transfer and usually takes between three quarters of an hour and an hour. The fort, the canal and your loved ones stay roughly half an hour away, and the sales office at 435 Geoffrion Street is ready for you to judge in person.

From Chambly to Sainte-Julie: routes, travel times and a model home visit