# Getting to Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve 2027: Metro & Ferry

> Cars are banned on the island. How to ride the Metro Yellow Line to Jean-Drapeau, avoid 90-minute station queues, use river ferries, and 747 bus hacks.

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## Page content

Canadian Grand Prix / Transit, Metro & River Ferries

## Getting to Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve:
*Metro Yellow Line vs River Ferry.*

Cars and rideshares are completely banned on Île Notre-Dame. Master the Metro Yellow Line, the Old Port River Shuttle, and avoiding 90-minute exit bottlenecks.

[Back to the guide](<https://above.guide/canada-f1>)

Your trip planner

### Plan your budget & race weekend.

Choose your travel dates, grandstand preference and budget to plan your Montreal race weekend.

### Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve

**Drawing route** The itinerary still works without the map.

**Sector 1**  ≈ 1.165 km   **Sector 2**  ≈ 1.498 km   **Sector 3**  ≈ 1.698 km



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## Related machine-readable resources

- [Tenant index](https://above.guide/canada-f1/llms.txt)
- [Complete tenant bundle](https://above.guide/canada-f1/llms-full.txt)
- [Manifest](https://above.guide/canada-f1/ai/manifest.json)
