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Alhambra & Bloor

Alhambra Ave & Bloor St W · Toronto, Ontario · High Park-Swansea · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park · Bloor By The Park BIA

At its last City count, in 2005, Alhambra & Bloor, in High Park-Swansea, was a busier-than-typical intersection. At the corner: Dundas West Station, a protected bikeway and a school within 250 m. Nearby: Bloor GO 323 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic
10,451
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 24, 2005
538 pedestrians · 12 cyclists
Collisions
18
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
Dundas West Station
subway station within 250 m
22 routes within 1 km · protected bikeway
Within a walk
75/100
city median 48 · #530 of 5,672
28 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 34 m

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Alhambra & Bloor

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Traffic volume8-hour count · Oct 24, 2005

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 6,076 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 58% of the total, against 150 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,636 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,639 from 4:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 21 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2005, not today's volume. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.

From the north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west6,076eastbound · 0 bikes · 2.9% heavy
Total vehicles10,451538 pedestrians · 12 cyclists · 3.4% heavy
From the east4,225westbound · 12 bikes · 3.8% heavy
From the south150northbound · 0 bikes · 12.7% heavy

Peak hours: 1,636 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,639 from 4:15 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).

Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m

The worst year was 2021, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 1. 3 collisions (17%) involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 17% of collisions. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (11%). Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 18, 2026.

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions18
With an injury3
Property damage only12
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian1
Involving a cyclist1
Severity not classified3
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.

How fast traffic moves here

On Bloor St W between Perth Ave and Dundas St W, 223 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2026 put the average speed at 33 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 40 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 45 km/h or more. That segment carries about 18,700 vehicles a day. Alhambra Ave between Radford Ave and Indian Trl measured slower: 29 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 38 km/h (Mar 2025). At the school-zone speed sign on Dundas St W (190 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 5,997 vehicles logged in April 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Alhambra Ave · Radford Ave – Indian Trl · 167 mMar 2025 · 3 days97229 km/h38 km/h44 km/h
Bloor St W · Perth Ave – Dundas St W · 223 mApr 2026 · 3 days18,74033 km/h40 km/h45 km/h
Speed sign
Dundas St W (northbound), 190 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 6 km/h, 85th percentile 19 km/h; 0.0% at 50 km/h or more. 5,997 vehicles logged in April 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

Subway
Dundas West Station (Line 2)218 m; Keele Station (Line 2)516 m · 6 min
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener323 m · 4 min
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 323 m · 4 min — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
504 505 506 512 nearest 124 m
TTC bus
402 168 40 41 189 80 89 47 nearest 124 m
Express
941 989
Blue Night
304 305 306 300 340 341
Nearest stops
12 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2020
Bike Share
Bloor St W / Dundas St W 203 m · 15 docks · 12 stations, 180 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Parking within 2 km

Green P
10 car parks · about 562 spaces
EV charging
2285 Dundas St W · 243 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 2251 Dundas St W (317 m), 430 Roncesvalles Ave (576 m)
Bike parking
104 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 42 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
31 mapped lots within 500 m, 396 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Keele Lot - 400 Indian Road · Surface318 m187 *—
2201 Dundas St W · Surface440 m1070% (Q1 2026)
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface1 km16over 100% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface1.2 km4963% (Q1 2026)
351 Keele St · Surface1.6 km7270% (Q1 2026)

Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.

Within a walk

What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.

Food, shops and services

A grocery store is within 300 m of the corner — the nearest is Fresh Picked Fruit Market, 34 m away. Two specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Andrea's Cookies at 229 m. Toronto Public Health inspects 28 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 120 — 2.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Bawara, 5 m away. Two pharmacies sit within 300 m of the corner; the nearest is Bloor Dundas Pharmacy, 120 m away. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. La Centre For Active Seniors - Rankin Apartments runs a seniors' active living programme 651 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Bawara · 1570 Bloor St W5 m
  • Cherie Cherry · 1572 Bloor St W23 m
  • Capone's Cocktail Lounge · 1573 Bloor St W34 m
  • Lithuanian House · 1573 Bloor St W34 m
  • Hoyra · 1566 Bloor St W35 m
28 within 300 m · 120 within 1 km
Grocery
Fresh Picked Fruit Market 34 m · 10 within 1 km
Food shops
Andrea's Cookies 229 m · 2 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
4 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Bloor Dundas Pharmacy 120 m · 7 within 1 km
Child care
  • The Village Nursery School · 18 spaces, preschool308 m · 4 min
  • Ola Day Care Inc. · 36 spaces, toddler, preschool402 m · 5 min
  • Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) · 75 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day541 m · 6 min
8 licensed centres · 785 spaces within 1 km · 4 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Keele Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed899 m · 11 min
Drinking water: Chelsea Avenue Playground 357 m · 4 min (off); High Park 560 m · 7 min
Health and care
  • La Centre For Active Seniors - Rankin Apartments · seniors' active living centre651 m · 8 min

Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.

Parks, schools and places

Parks (17)
  • Chelsea Avenue Playground347 m · 4 min
  • Perth Avenue Parkette637 m · 8 min
  • West Toronto Railpath682 m · 8 min
  • Ritchie Avenue Parkette690 m · 8 min
  • Erwin Krickhahn Park860 m · 10 min
and 12 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
  • Keele Community Centre877 m · 10 min
Schools (14)
  • Bishop Marrocco Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 187 m
  • Tamarack West Outdoor SchoolPrivate · 538 m · 6 min
  • Westminster Classical Christian Academy Elementary SchoolPrivate · 566 m · 7 min
  • Keele St Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 866 m · 10 min
  • Howard Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 912 m · 11 min
and 9 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library High Park branch1.4 km · 16 min
Places of interest
  • Taras H. Shevchenko MuseumMuseum · 139 m
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 933 m · 11 min

Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.

Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.

75of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #530 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food28/30

    1 grocery store within 300 m · 28 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit28/28

    Dundas West Station · 12 stops within 300 m · 22 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go7/14

    library 1.4 km away · 1 place of interest within 500 m

  • Parks and recreation5/10

    1 park within 500 m · nearest centre 0.9 km

  • Schools and child care7/8

    1 school within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

Within a kilometre there are 24 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 3,342 rental units — seven social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1585 Bloor St W (90 m, 48 units, 3 storeys, built 1930), which scored 92 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
1585 Bloor St W483193092 · Aug 202590 m
1639 Bloor St W · Greenwin Corp.466196092 · Aug 2026186 m
1624 Bloor St W social housing · Aykler Real Estate Inc.946199297 · Aug 2025204 m
2350 Dundas St W · Creccal Investments Ltd45729197694 · Sep 2024212 m
2360 Dundas St W · Creccal Investments Ltd63829197694 · Aug 2025218 m
1643 Bloor St W · Berkley Property Management Inc243193076 · Aug 2026222 m

24 registered buildings · 3,342 units · 7 social housing · tallest 29 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Two thefts from vehicles and two bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200other (1), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft210apartment parking (2)

Police offset every occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing, so these are thefts on the streets and premises around this node, not necessarily at the corner itself. Other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see High Park-Swansea.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Alhambra & Bloor a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 18 lesser collisions. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.

How busy is Alhambra & Bloor?

A busier-than-typical intersection at the City's last count here, in 2005. Its latest count is from Oct 24, 2005, about today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Alhambra & Bloor a walkable intersection?

Alhambra & Bloor scores 75 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #530 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: Dundas West Station · 12 stops within 300 m · 22 routes within 1 km; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 28 places to eat within 300 m; 1 school within 500 m · 2 licensed child care within 500 m.

How fast do cars go at Alhambra & Bloor?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Bloor St W between Perth Ave and Dundas St W (April 2026), found an average of 33 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 40 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 190 m away (40 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in April 2026.

Where can I park near Alhambra & Bloor?

The nearest Green P car park is Keele Lot - 400 Indian Road (318 m away, 187 spaces). The City's mapping shows 396 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,990 spaces — 31 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2285 Dundas St W (243 m).

How do I get to Alhambra & Bloor by transit?

Dundas West Station (Line 2) is 218 m away; Bloor GO is 323 m away; streetcar routes 504, 505, 506, 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 124 m away; bus routes 402, 168, 40, 41, 189, 80, 89, 47 and 2 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Alhambra & Bloor?

28 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 120 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Bawara (5 m), Cherie Cherry (23 m), Capone's Cocktail Lounge (34 m), Lithuanian House (34 m) and Hoyra (35 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Alhambra & Bloor?

The nearest is Keele Community Centre Washroom, 181 Glenlake Ave, 899 m away.

Is there child care near Alhambra & Bloor?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 785 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Village Nursery School (308 m, 18 spaces), Ola Day Care Inc. (402 m, 36 spaces) and Candy Factory Swallows Day Care (the) (541 m, 75 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Alhambra & Bloor?

24 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,342 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1585 Bloor St W (90 m, 48 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 1639 Bloor St W (186 m, 46 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 1624 Bloor St W (204 m, 94 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 2350 Dundas St W (212 m, 457 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 24 is 92 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at Alhambra & Bloor?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the High Park-Swansea page.

What neighbourhood is Alhambra & Bloor in?

Alhambra & Bloor is in High Park-Swansea (City of Toronto neighbourhood 087). It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks. The corner falls inside the Bloor By The Park Business Improvement Area.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined