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Argyle & Lisgar

Argyle St & Lisgar St · Toronto, Ontario · Little Portugal · Ward 9, Davenport

In Little Portugal, in central Toronto, Argyle & Lisgar is a low-volume local intersection, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: a bike lane and a park. Nearby: 15 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
657
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 13, 2021
822 pedestrians · 687 cyclists
Collisions
9
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 6 property damage · #4372 of 5,508 · +1 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
5 streetcar routes · 3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow, Sharrows
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 80 vehicles, 7% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.3 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 104.6% of vehicle volume, about 135× the typical share. That comes with about 0.9 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Argyle & Lisgar

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501505504508506 nearest 329 m
TTC bus
6329402 nearest 401 m
Express
929
Blue Night
301305304306363329
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Argyle St installed 2015; Sharrows on Argyle St installed 2015
Bike Share
Osler Playground (Argyle St) 226 m · 15 docks · 32 stations, 655 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 (21)
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Ave & the GroveEnglish Public · 335 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 564 m
  • Pope Francis Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 699 m
  • The Orchard Montessori SchoolPrivate · 713 m
  • Ossington Old Orchard Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 772 m
  • Shirley St Jr & City View AlternativeEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 15 more
Parks (38)
  • Osler Playground196 m
  • Paul E. Garfinkel Park385 m
  • Lisgar Park396 m
  • Pessoa Park428 m
  • Lakeview Avenue Parkette432 m
  • Harrison-Dovercourt Parkette502 m
  • and 32 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch824 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 345 m
  • Coca-Cola Coliseum (formerly Ricoh Coliseum)Sports / Entertainment Venue · 1.4 km
  • Medieval Times Dinner and TournamentPerforming Arts · 1.5 km
  • Queen Elizabeth TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.5 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 8 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 350 — 4.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Pizzeria Badiali, 105 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés8 within 300 m · 350 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 50 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Pizzeria Badiali · 181 Dovercourt Rd105 mPassed, Aug 2026
Nobrega's Variety - Vilda's · 209 Dovercourt Rdgrocery116 mPassed, May 2026
Bernhardts · 202 Dovercourt Rd136 mPassed, May 2026 · 4 infractions
Misc Coffee · 155 Dovercourt Rd149 mPassed, Jun 2026
Shiroshi Downtown · 1128 Queen St W285 mPassed, Jun 2026
Twist Gallery · 1100 Queen St W293 mPassed, Feb 2026
Bar Prima · 1136 Queen St W294 mPassed, Dec 2025
Saigon Pai · 1138 Queen St W295 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 Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom, 695 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 196 m away at Osler Playground.

  • Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom · 66 Sheridan Ave
    View centre hours
    695 m
  • Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 155 Crawford St
    View centre hours · accessible
    789 m
  • Trinity Bellwoods Playground Washroom · 790 Queen St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    803 m
Drinking water
Osler Playground bottle filling station, drinking fountain, dog fountain · 196 m; Paul E. Garfinkel Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 377 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

15 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,107 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA (335 m, 120 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km15 centres · 1,107 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 15
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA · 108 Gladstone Ave
    120 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    335 m
  • Bumble Bee Garden Child Care Ltd. · 1275 Dundas St W
    28 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    373 m
  • Queen Street Childcare Centre · 10 White Squirrel Way
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    545 m
  • Givins/Shaw School Community Day Care · 49 Givins St
    121 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    564 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (607 m) and the nearest ambulance station 613 m away.

FireFire Station 426 · 1.1 km140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 607 m350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 37 · 613 m1288 Queen St W

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

Within a kilometre there are 53 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 5,296 rental units, 2.3× the median for a Toronto intersection — 13 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 255 Dovercourt Rd (282 m, 16 units, 3 storeys, built 1912), which scored 85 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 53 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 123 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 26 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings53 · 5,296 units · 13 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026123 across the 53
Open fire-code violations26
Tallest35 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
255 Dovercourt Rd · 2153244 Ontario Inc163191285 · Aug 20250282 m
8 Beaconsfield Ave · Dsm Investment Group Limited114193291 · Jul 20250283 m
1176 Queen St W253191554 · Jul 20260336 m
1289 Dundas St Wsocial housing · Villa Luso Non Profit Housing Corp1497198698 · Aug 20260370 m
55 Lisgar St · Medallion Corporation1169200596 · Aug 20261391 m
410 Dufferin St · Rhapsody Property Management Services198102021100 · Jul 20255 · 1 fire450 m
180 Sudbury Stsocial housing · St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society19018201182 · Sep 20242 · 2 fire452 m
400 Dufferin St · Rhapsody Property Management Service15213202199 · Jul 20255 · 1 fire455 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 lots728 lots · ≈27,400 spaces · 82.2 ha
Within 500 m39 lots · ≈730 spaces
Green P (public)27 car parks · about 1,893 spaces
EV charging (City)1051 Queen Street W · 411 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 76 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface279 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)
45 Abell St · Garage453 m12460% (Q1 2026)
18 Ossington Ave · Surface457 m20over 100% (Q1 2026)
146 Harrison St · Surface500 m7968% (Q1 2026)
1117 Dundas St W · Surface521 m3786% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 169 m away, ≈7 spaces; 170 m away, ≈5 spaces; 181 m away, ≈6 spaces; 203 m away, ≈8 spaces; 240 m away, ≈6 spaces; 291 m away, ≈10 spaces. More EV charging: 45 Abell St (490 m, 16 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (584 m, 2 ports); 248 Shaw St (652 m, 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, Oct 13, 2021

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 417 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 63% of the total, against 240 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the east (296 of 687). Evening rush dominates here: 125 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 80 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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 north240southbound · 54 bikes · 1.7% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 314 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles657822 pedestrians · 687 cyclists · 1.7% heavy
From the east417westbound · 296 bikes · 1.7% heavy
From the south0northbound · 23 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour80 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour125 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 13, 2021

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

On Argyle St between Lane E of Gladstone and S of Argyle and Gladstone Ave, 267 m from the corner, a 3-day count in December 2021 put the average speed at 25 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 32 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 35 km/h or more. That segment carries about 900 vehicles a day. Lisgar St between Afton Ave and Lane S of Afton and W of Lisgar measured slower: 21 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 29 km/h (Sep 2021). The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Lisgar St · Afton Ave – Lane S of Afton and W of Lisgar · 128 mSep 2021 · 3 days45621 km/h29 km/h34 km/h
Argyle St · Lane E of Gladstone and S of Argyle – Gladstone Ave · 267 mDec 2021 · 3 days86625 km/h32 km/h35 km/h

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 worst year was 2021, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 1 collision (11%) involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (11%). Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 18, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions9#4372 of 5,508
With an injury1#4058 of 4,660
Property damage only6
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian1#2146 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201412latest Apr 18, 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

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

One theft from a vehicle and two bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft200house driveway/garage (1), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 16, 2021. 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 Little Portugal.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Argyle & Lisgar a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 Argyle & Lisgar?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 13, 2021, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Argyle & Lisgar?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Argyle St between Lane E of Gladstone and S of Argyle and Gladstone Ave (December 2021), found an average of 25 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 32 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Argyle & Lisgar?

The nearest Green P car park is 110 Dovercourt Rd (279 m away, 8 spaces). The City's mapping shows 728 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 27,400 spaces — 39 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1051 Queen Street W (411 m).

How do I get to Argyle & Lisgar by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 505, 504, 508 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 329 m away; bus routes 63, 29, 402, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Argyle & Lisgar?

8 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 350 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Pizzeria Badiali (105 m), Bernhardts (136 m), Misc Coffee (149 m), Shiroshi Downtown (285 m) and Twist Gallery (293 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 Argyle & Lisgar?

The nearest is Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom, 66 Sheridan Ave, 695 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom (789 m); Trinity Bellwoods Playground Washroom (803 m). 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 Argyle & Lisgar?

15 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,107 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA (335 m, 120 spaces), Bumble Bee Garden Child Care Ltd. (373 m, 28 spaces) and Queen Street Childcare Centre (545 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Argyle & Lisgar?

53 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 5,296 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 255 Dovercourt Rd (282 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 8 Beaconsfield Ave (283 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 1176 Queen St W (336 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 54) and 1289 Dundas St W (370 m, 149 units, RentSafeTO score 98). The average RentSafeTO score across the 53 is 88 out of 100; 2 scored below 70. 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 Argyle & Lisgar?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and two 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 Little Portugal page.

What neighbourhood is Argyle & Lisgar in?

Argyle & Lisgar is in Little Portugal (City of Toronto neighbourhood 084). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

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