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Arlington & Benson

Arlington Ave & Benson Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Wychwood · Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's

Arlington & Benson is a low-volume local intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in Wychwood. Nearby is 12 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
1,575
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 17, 2013
515 pedestrians · 135 cyclists
Collisions
12
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 10 property damage · #4033 of 5,508
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
1 streetcar route · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 200 vehicles, 17% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 3 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 8.6% of vehicle volume, about 11× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 1.2 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Arlington & Benson

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
512 nearest 192 m
TTC bus
1261276316190726 nearest 256 m
Blue Night
312340363307
Nearest stops
6 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Rushton Rd / St. Clair Ave W 200 m · 11 docks · 12 stations, 188 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)
  • McMurrich Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 272 m
  • Winona Drive Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 340 m
  • St Alphonsus Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 509 m
  • Oakwood Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 663 m
  • St Bruno and St Raymond Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 688 m
  • Humewood Community SchoolEnglish Public · 808 m
  • and 15 more
Community centres
Parks (35)
  • Graham Park291 m
  • Wychwood Barns Park364 m
  • Wychwood Parkette464 m
  • Mount Royal Parkette465 m
  • Hillcrest Park479 m
  • Humewood Park508 m
  • and 29 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Davenport branch533 m
  • Toronto Public Library Wychwood branch913 m
  • Toronto Public Library Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Artscape Wychwood BarnsLandmark · 355 m
  • Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.3 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 42 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 9 grocery and convenience stores, and 165 eating places within a kilometre — 2.3× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Zaza Espresso Bar, 163 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés42 within 300 m · 165 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience9 within 300 m · 27 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Zaza Espresso Bar · 775 St Clair Ave W163 mPassed, Jun 2026
Krave Coffee · 781 St Clair Ave W167 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Ferro · 769 St Clair Ave W173 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Aviv Immigrant Kitchen · 779 St Clair Ave W176 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 2 infractions
Volin's · 779 St Clair Ave W176 mPassed, Jun 2025
South St Burger · 743 St Clair Ave W176 mPassed, Mar 2025
Burgers N Fries Forever · 743 743 St Clair Ave W Ave187 mPassed, Mar 2026
Burgers N' Fries Forever · 743 St Clair Ave W 101187 mPassed, Jan 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 Hillcrest Park Washroom, 454 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 288 m away at Graham Park (currently off).

  • Hillcrest Park Washroom · 950 Davenport Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    454 m
Drinking water
Graham Park drinking fountain · 288 m · off; Wychwood Barns Park drinking fountain · 321 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

16 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,276 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Hippo Nursery School (204 m, 42 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km16 centres · 1,276 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 16
  • Hippo Nursery School · 729 St Clair Ave W
    42 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    204 m
  • McMurrich Sprouts · 115 Winona Dr
    177 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    272 m
  • Oakwood Children's House · 115 Winona Dr
    16 spaces · preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    272 m
  • McMurrich Co-Operative Playschool · 115 Winona Dr
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    272 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 343 (221 m), the nearest police station 13 Division (2.2 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.9 km away.

FireFire Station 343 · 221 m65 Hendrick Ave
Police13 Division · 2.2 km1435 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 34 · 1.9 km674 Markham St

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

85 registered apartment buildings with 3,962 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, 16 of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 3.7× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 781 St Clair Ave W (166 m, 16 units, 3 storeys, built 1921), which scored 90 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 72 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 17 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings85 · 3,962 units · 16 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202672 across the 85
Open fire-code violations17
Tallest23 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
781 St Clair Ave W · 781 Birch Properties Inc163192190 · Jul 20262166 m
747 St Clair Ave Wsocial housing · Aykler978198693 · Sep 20252173 m
55 Hendrick Ave · Akelius Canada Ltd293195691 · Aug 20260199 m
795 St Clair Ave W · Pain Rehabilitation Clinic Inc.193192994 · Aug 20260204 m
200 Ellsworth Avesocial housing · St Matthews Bracondale House183198286 · Nov 20250226 m
707 St Clair Ave Wsocial housing · St Matthews Bracondale House1307198297 · Aug 20260241 m
143 Arlington Ave · Akelius Canada Ltd284193089 · Aug 20263281 m
145 Arlington Ave · Akelius Canada Ltd324193092 · Jul 20264296 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 lots611 lots · ≈16,580 spaces · 49.7 ha
Within 500 m43 lots · ≈900 spaces
Green P (public)21 car parks · about 832 spaces
EV charging (City)580 Christie St · 274 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking83 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 5 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
789 St. Clair Avenue West · Surface190 m18 *
287 RUSHTON RD. · Surface277 m1737% (Q1 2026)
700 St. Clair Ave West · Surface307 m18 *
640 St Clair Ave W · Surface442 m1866% (Q1 2026)
11 Kenwood Ave · Surface636 m2568% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 158 m away, ≈8 spaces; 164 m away, ≈20 spaces; 174 m away, ≈22 spaces (Green P); 188 m away, ≈6 spaces; 195 m away, ≈19 spaces; 214 m away, ≈11 spaces. More EV charging: 273 Christie St (1.1 km, 2 ports); 91 Via Italia (1.4 km, 12 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, Sep 17, 2013

The west leg carries the load — 617 eastbound vehicles, or 39% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 293. Most cyclists arrived from the west (71 of 135). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 383 vehicles in the hour from 4:15 p.m., 22% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (313). Heavy vehicles were a negligible share of traffic (0.3%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 13 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2013, 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 north328southbound · 5 bikes · 0.3% heavy
From the west617eastbound · 71 bikes · 0.5% heavy
Total vehicles1,575515 pedestrians · 135 cyclists · 0.3% heavy
From the east337westbound · 5 bikes · 0.3% heavy
From the south293northbound · 54 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour313 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour383 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Sep 17, 2013

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 Arlington Ave between Feel Good Lane and Humewood Gdns (324 m away) recorded an average of 29 km/h in its 3-day count in September 2013; 85% of drivers were at or under 35 km/h. That segment carries about 1,900 vehicles a day. Benson Ave between Robert Zend Lane and Greensides Ave measured slower: 27 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 35 km/h (Jun 2022). The reading is 13 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Benson Ave · Robert Zend Lane – Greensides Ave · 76 mJun 2022 · 7 days1,42827 km/h35 km/h39 km/h
Arlington Ave · Feel Good Lane – Humewood Gdns · 324 mSep 2013 · 3 days1,88029 km/h35 km/h40 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

2024 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 8% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 8% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Sep 17, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions12#4033 of 5,508
With an injury1#4102 of 4,660
Property damage only10
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 201414latest Sep 17, 2025

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 three thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft 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 vehicle320street/outdoor (2), apartment parking (1)
Bicycle theft100other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 12, 2023. 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 Wychwood.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Arlington & Benson a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 12 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 Arlington & Benson?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Sep 17, 2013, 17% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Arlington & Benson?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Arlington Ave between Feel Good Lane and Humewood Gdns (September 2013), found an average of 29 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 35 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Arlington & Benson?

The nearest Green P car park is 789 St. Clair Avenue West (190 m away, 18 spaces). The City's mapping shows 611 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 16,580 spaces — 43 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 580 Christie St (274 m).

How do I get to Arlington & Benson by transit?

Streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 192 m away; bus routes 126, 127, 63, 161, 90, 7, 26 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Arlington & Benson?

42 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 165 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Zaza Espresso Bar (163 m), Krave Coffee (167 m), Ferro (173 m), Aviv Immigrant Kitchen (176 m) and Volin's (176 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 Arlington & Benson?

The nearest is Hillcrest Park Washroom, 950 Davenport Rd, 454 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.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 Arlington & Benson?

16 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,276 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Hippo Nursery School (204 m, 42 spaces), McMurrich Sprouts (272 m, 177 spaces) and Oakwood Children's House (272 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Arlington & Benson?

85 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,962 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 781 St Clair Ave W (166 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 747 St Clair Ave W (173 m, 97 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 55 Hendrick Ave (199 m, 29 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 795 St Clair Ave W (204 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 85 is 90 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 Arlington & Benson?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft 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 Wychwood page.

What neighbourhood is Arlington & Benson in?

Arlington & Benson is in Wychwood (City of Toronto neighbourhood 094). It is in Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's, represented by Councillor Josh Matlow.

Sources

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