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Alhambra & Boustead

Alhambra Ave & Boustead Ave · Toronto, Ontario · High Park-Swansea · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park

Alhambra & Boustead, in High Park-Swansea, is a low-volume local intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has a school within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: Dundas West Station (Line 2) 424 m away and Bloor GO 452 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
665
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 8, 2019
249 pedestrians · 60 cyclists
Collisions
10
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 8 property damage · #4248 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
1
TTC stop within 100 m
Dundas West Station 424 m · 4 streetcar routes · 9 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 11 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 80 vehicles an hour, 7% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 2.7 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 9.0% of vehicle volume, about 12× the typical share. On average 1 collision a year was reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Alhambra & Boustead

Getting here

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk

Transit & cycling

Subway
Dundas West Station (Line 2)424 m; Keele Station (Line 2)539 m
GO Transit
Bloor GO — Kitchener452 m
UP Express
Bloor GO/UP 452 m — trains to Pearson
Streetcar
504505506512 nearest 96 m
TTC bus
4021684080418918947203 nearest 123 m
Express
941989
Blue Night
304305306300340341
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Roncesvalles Ave at Boustead Ave South Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
2201 Dundas St W 124 m · 11 docks · 17 stations, 264 docks within 1 km

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

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (24)
  • Westminster Classical Christian Academy Elementary SchoolPrivate · 145 m
  • Bishop Marrocco Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 292 m
  • Howard Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 326 m
  • High Park Gardens Montessori SchoolPrivate · 639 m
  • Tamarack West Outdoor SchoolPrivate · 732 m
  • Academy of Enlightened MindsPrivate · 811 m
  • and 18 more
Community centres
  • Keele Community Centre856 m
Parks (22)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library High Park branch1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Junction Triangle (formely Perth/Dupont) branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Taras H. Shevchenko MuseumMuseum · 354 m
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 628 m
  • High ParkNature/ Park · 1.2 km

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 25 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores, and 155 eating places within a kilometre — 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Musoshin Ramen, 81 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2026.

Restaurants & cafés25 within 300 m · 155 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 34 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Greenfield Grocery · 484 Roncesvalles Avegrocery81 mPassed, Mar 2026
Musoshin Ramen · 484 Roncesvalles Ave81 mPassed, Sep 2026
Steven Tran Chocolatier · 476 Roncesvalles Ave86 mPassed, Mar 2026
Am Coffee Studio · 2233 Dundas St W97 mPassed, Mar 2026
Naturlandia · 2237 Dundas St W105 mPassed, Aug 2025
Starbucks Coffee · 2201 Dundas St W108 mPassed, Apr 2026
Jimmy's Coffee · 2210 Dundas St W119 mPassed, May 2025 · 1 infraction
Ali Baba · 2202 Dundas St W125 mPassed, Jul 2026

Every establishment Toronto Public Health inspects under DineSafe, screened by name to leave out kitchens inside schools, care homes and offices. A conditional pass means infractions had to be fixed by a follow-up visit, not that the premises is closed.

Washrooms & water

The nearest public washroom is Keele Community Centre Washroom, 855 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 302 m away at Ritchie Avenue Parkette.

  • Keele Community Centre Washroom · 181 Glenlake Ave
    View centre hours
    855 m
  • Macgregor Playground Washroom · 346 Lansdowne Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    886 m
  • Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom · 289 Sorauren Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    1 km
Drinking water
Ritchie Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 302 m; Chelsea Avenue Playground bottle filling station · 507 m

Park washrooms, washrooms in City buildings and automated street toilets, with hours and status as the City publishes them (park washrooms are seasonal). Malls, shops and TTC stations are not included.

Child care

13 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,093 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Ola Day Care Inc. (75 m, 36 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km13 centres · 1,093 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 13
  • Ola Day Care Inc. · 2211 Dundas St W
    36 spaces · toddler, preschool
    75 m
  • The Village Nursery School · 2241 Dundas St W
    18 spaces · preschool
    118 m
  • Tiny Explorers Academy · 404 Roncesvalles Ave
    134 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    269 m
  • Howard Park Children's Centre · 30 Marmaduke St
    198 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    326 m

Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (1.4 km), the nearest police station 11 Division (2.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.4 km away.

FireFire Station 426 · 1.4 km140 Lansdowne Ave
Police11 Division · 2.1 km2054 Davenport Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 32 · 1.4 km9 Clendenan Ave

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Apartment buildings nearby

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

32 registered apartment buildings with 4,297 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, eight of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 470 Roncesvalles Ave (80 m, 49 units, 4 storeys, built 1960), which scored 96 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 36 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 9 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings32 · 4,297 units · 8 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202636 across the 32
Open fire-code violations9
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
470 Roncesvalles Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc494196096 · Aug 2025280 m
469 Roncesvalles Ave · 1584062 Ontario Ltd.154193083 · Sep 20251122 m
467 Roncesvalles Ave · Ez Property Management Ltd.154192089 · Jul 20240126 m
1585 Bloor St W483193092 · Aug 20250284 m
1639 Bloor St W · Greenwin Corp.466196092 · Aug 20260323 m
1643 Bloor St W · Berkley Property Management Inc243193076 · Aug 20260328 m
1624 Bloor St Wsocial housing · Aykler Real Estate Inc.946199297 · Aug 20254380 m
320 Roncesvalles Ave · Orchard Park Property Management164191891 · Jul 20251403 m

The City's RentSafeTO register — rental apartment buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units — with the score from each building's latest City evaluation (out of 100; poor scores trigger a full audit). LTB orders are final Landlord and Tenant Board orders naming the address (Jan 2026 – Jun 2026); fire-code violations are open items in Toronto Fire Services' inspection data. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport. Condominiums and houses are not registered.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots556 lots · ≈20,220 spaces · 60.7 ha
Within 500 m44 lots · ≈1,650 spaces
Green P (public)15 car parks · about 1,051 spaces
EV charging (City)2251 Dundas St W · 149 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking96 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 42 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
2201 Dundas St W · Surface120 m1070% (Q1 2026)
Keele Lot - 400 Indian Road · Surface446 m187 *
695 Lansdowne Ave · Surface1 km16over 100% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface1.2 km4963% (Q1 2026)
9 Bonar Pl · Surface1.5 km3471% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 80 m away, ≈17 spaces; 130 m away, ≈12 spaces (Green P); 139 m away, ≈10 spaces; 150 m away, ≈19 spaces; 185 m away, ≈45 spaces; 236 m away, ≈34 spaces. More EV charging: 430 Roncesvalles Ave (187 m, 2 ports); 2285 Dundas St W (215 m, 2 ports); 115 High Park Avenue (1.2 km, 2 ports).

Lot count and area from the City's topographic mapping of parking-lot footprints (every visible surface lot, public or private); spaces are estimated at one per 30 m² of lot. Lots not run by Green P are private, commercial or institutional and may be for customers or residents only. Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; rates are not shown because that list is stale — check Green P). EV chargers are City-operated only; on-street and underground parking are not included.

Traffic volume

The City's latest turning-movement count — 8-hour, May 8, 2019

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 410 westbound vehicles, or 62% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 3. Most cyclists arrived from the east (31 of 60). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 113 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 59% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (71). Heavy vehicles made up 1.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 7 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2019, 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 north252southbound · 25 bikes · 2.0% heavy
From the west3eastbound · 4 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles665249 pedestrians · 60 cyclists · 1.8% heavy
From the east410westbound · 31 bikes · 1.7% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour71 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour113 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 8, 2019

Approach figures are vehicles entering the intersection from that leg over the whole count. A count is one day's traffic, not an annual average; the City recounts on an ad-hoc schedule.

How fast traffic moves here

Midblock speed counts on the intersection's streets, the nearest school-zone speed sign, and traffic calming

The City's counter on Alhambra Ave between Radford Ave and Indian Trl (145 m away) recorded an average of 29 km/h in its 3-day count in March 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 38 km/h. That segment carries about 1,000 vehicles a day. Boustead Ave between Alhambra Ave and Indian Rd measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 30 km/h (Dec 2023). At the school-zone speed sign on Dundas St W (188 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 4,185 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Boustead Ave · Alhambra Ave – Indian Rd · 128 mDec 2023 · 3 days97223 km/h30 km/h34 km/h
Alhambra Ave · Radford Ave – Indian Trl · 145 mMar 2025 · 3 days97229 km/h38 km/h44 km/h

School-zone speed sign 188 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct0 · 20 km/h
Over the limit0.0%
50 km/h or more0.0%

Dundas St W (northbound), 2258 Dundas Street West · 4,185 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; the 85th-percentile speed is the figure engineers use — 85% of drivers were at or below it. Counts are ad hoc, so some are years old. A midblock reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data.

All police-reported collisions

Every collision reported to Toronto Police within 65 m, any severity, 2016–2025

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 2 collisions. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 40% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 26, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions10#4248 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only8
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201412latest May 26, 2026

Source: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data — every collision reported to police since 2014, within 65 m of this node. Records through Jun 30, 2026.

Killed or seriously injured

Collisions in which someone died or was seriously injured, within 65 m, 2016–2025 — the basis of the danger rankings

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

KSI = killed or seriously injured. A collision is counted if its recorded location is within 65 m of this intersection's centreline node, whether the police coded it as intersection-related or mid-block. Records can lag a year or more, so the current year is excluded from rankings.

Thefts reported at this corner

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

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and three bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle410street/outdoor (3), other (1)
Bicycle theft300house driveway/garage (2), apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 18, 2024. 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 & Boustead a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 10 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 & Boustead?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from May 8, 2019, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Alhambra & Boustead?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Alhambra Ave between Radford Ave and Indian Trl (March 2025), found an average of 29 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 38 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 188 m away (40 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Alhambra & Boustead?

The nearest Green P car park is 2201 Dundas St W (120 m away, 10 spaces, 70% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 556 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 20,220 spaces — 44 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 2251 Dundas St W (149 m).

How do I get to Alhambra & Boustead by transit?

Dundas West Station (Line 2) is 424 m away; Bloor GO is 452 m away; streetcar routes 504, 505, 506, 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 96 m away; bus routes 402, 168, 40, 80, 41, 89, 189, 47 and 3 more within 1 km (nearest stop: Roncesvalles Ave at Boustead Ave South Side, 123 m).

What restaurants are near Alhambra & Boustead?

25 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 155 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Musoshin Ramen (81 m), Steven Tran Chocolatier (86 m), Am Coffee Studio (97 m), Naturlandia (105 m) and Starbucks Coffee (108 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Alhambra & Boustead?

The nearest is Keele Community Centre Washroom, 181 Glenlake Ave, 855 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Macgregor Playground Washroom (886 m); Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom (1.0 km). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Alhambra & Boustead?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,093 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Ola Day Care Inc. (75 m, 36 spaces), The Village Nursery School (118 m, 18 spaces) and Tiny Explorers Academy (269 m, 134 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Alhambra & Boustead?

32 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,297 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 470 Roncesvalles Ave (80 m, 49 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 469 Roncesvalles Ave (122 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 83), 467 Roncesvalles Ave (126 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 1585 Bloor St W (284 m, 48 units, RentSafeTO score 92). The average RentSafeTO score across the 32 is 92 out of 100. Condos and houses are not on the City's register. Each building's full record — score history, LTB orders, fire-code inspections, permits — is on LandlordReport.

How many thefts are reported at Alhambra & Boustead?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and three bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the High Park-Swansea page.

What neighbourhood is Alhambra & Boustead in?

Alhambra & Boustead is in High Park-Swansea (City of Toronto neighbourhood 087). It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks.

Sources

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