Montréal Grocery Access

How much does public transit expand grocery shopping options?

Maximum trip time

Includes walking to transit, waiting, riding, and the final walk.

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Some dissemination areas did not have walking paths that could be adequately mapped.

How the numbers are calculated

The analysis covers 15, 30, and 45-minute trips to 1,241 food shops, including grocery stores, fruiteries, butchers, and fishmongers. Each shop counts as a possible destination. Access is measured from the official starting point of each dissemination area.

Travel time includes walking, waiting, riding, and transfers, with walking modelled at one metre per second. Transit counts average 48 departures, sampled every five minutes from 11 am to 12.55 pm and 4 pm to 5.55 pm on 10 June 2026. Walking remains an option. These mobility assumptions will not fit every older resident.

Store markers cover all sampled departures, so they may outnumber the average shown. Click a store for its travel time and access information.

Walking network built with City2Graph, Sato et al. (2026), Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 130, 102492.

Analysis and map by CityWork.io. Data from Statistics Canada (2021 Census), Overture Maps, and STM (GTFS).