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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 · Nov 22, 2022
This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 2,602 westbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 365. Most cyclists arrived from the east (51 of 88). Morning rush is the busier period: 873 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 747 from 5:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 5.0% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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.
Peak hours: 873 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 747 from 5:00 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 10 collisions. 15% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 13 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 21% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 11% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 6 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 4, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 61 | #1763 of 5,519 |
| With an injury | 9 | #1890 of 4,669 |
| Property damage only | 42 | |
| Fail to remain | 13 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 4 | #937 of 3,196 |
| Involving a cyclist | 3 | #796 of 2,576 |
| Severity not classified | 10 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 6 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
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.
Speeds here, last measured in 2020
The City's counter on Ashdale Ave between Lane N of Gerrard and E of Hiawatha and Fairford Ave (153 m away) recorded an average of 29 km/h in its 2-day count in February 2020; 85% of drivers were at or under 37 km/h. That segment carries about 700 vehicles a day. The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 8 speed humps slow traffic on Ashdale Avenue between Queen St E and Gerrard St E, and 1 more calmed segment ends here.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashdale Ave · Lane N of Gerrard and E of Hiawatha – Fairford Ave · 153 m | Feb 2020 · 2 days | 681 | 29 km/h | 37 km/h | 40 km/h |
- Traffic calming
- Ashdale Avenue (Queen St E – Gerrard St E): 8 speed humps; Ashdale Avenue (Gerrard St E – Fairford Ave): 3 speed humps (installed 2005)
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.
- The crossing
- pedestrian crossover
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Streetcar
- 506 501 503 nearest 12 m
- TTC bus
- 22 31 nearest 241 m
- Blue Night
- 306 301 322
- Nearest stops
- 7 surface stops within 300 m — Gerrard St East at Ashdale Ave
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Eastwood Rd / Coxwell Ave 273 m · 3 min · 19 docks · 8 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.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- 15 car parks · about 947 spaces
- EV charging
- 1313 Gerrard ST E · 399 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 29 Bowmore Rd (743 m), 1715 DUNDAS ST E (805 m)
- Bike parking
- 49 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 31 mapped lots within 500 m, 337 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 151 Hiawatha Road · Surface | 134 m | 50 * | — |
| 268 Rhodes Ave · Surface | 165 m | 39 | 68% (Q1 2026) |
| 1091 Eastern Avenue · Surface | 1.1 km | 45 * | — |
| 1141 Eastern Ave · Surface | 1.3 km | 18 | 58% (Q1 2026) |
| 1167 Eastern Ave · Surface | 1.3 km | 66 | 32% (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
You can do a shop on foot from here: Victoria Whole Foods is 67 m away. There is also a specialist food shop, Sanagan's Meat Locker, 219 m away. There are 36 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 74 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Santa Madre, 25 m away. The nearest pharmacy is L&a Pharmacy, 156 m away, one of four within 300 m. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. Applegrove Community Complex runs a seniors' active living programme 867 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Santa Madre · 1437 Gerrard St E25 m
- Chai Culture · 1445 Gerrard St E Bldg--28 m
- Hakka Flame · 1433 Gerrard St E33 m
- Tandoori Wok · 1433 Gerrard St E33 m
- Kohinoor Foods · 1438 Gerrard St E36 m
- Grocery
- Victoria Whole Foods 67 m · 5 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Sanagan's Meat Locker 219 m · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Convenience
- 3 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
- Pharmacy
- L&a Pharmacy 156 m · 6 within 1 km
- Child care
- Petitecare · 34 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day84 m
- Blue Bell Academy Inc · 38 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day115 m
- Roden Community Child Care Centre · 59 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day241 m
- Washrooms
- Greenwood Park Fieldhouse Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.708 m · 8 min
- Monarch Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom · hours not listed861 m · 10 min
- Health and care
- Applegrove Community Complex · seniors' active living centre867 m · 10 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 (21)
- Fairford Avenue Parkette463 m · 6 min
- Moncur Playground517 m · 6 min
- Cairns Avenue Parkette678 m · 8 min
- The Rail Garden679 m · 8 min
- Coxwell Avenue Playground754 m · 9 min
- Community centres
- Fairmount Park Community Centre1 km · 11 min
- S.h. Armstrong Community Recreation Centre1.4 km · 16 min
- Schools (14)
- Roden Public & Equinox Holistic AlternativeEnglish Public · 241 m
- Kew Park Montessori School - HiawathaPrivate · 257 m · 3 min
- Duke of Connaught Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 851 m · 10 min
- Georges Etienne Cartier Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 859 m · 10 min
- Bowmore Road Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km · 11 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Gerrard/Ashdale branch23 m
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.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #982 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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
22 registered apartment buildings with 806 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, 13 of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1430 Gerrard St E (59 m, 25 units, 4 storeys, built 1927), which scored 94 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1430 Gerrard St E · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc. | 25 | 4 | 1927 | 94 · Nov 2025 | 59 m |
| 279 Woodfield Rd | 42 | 4 | 1915 | 83 · Dec 2025 | 190 m |
| 1395 Gerrard St E · 2239032 Ontario Inc. | 12 | 3 | 1965 | 90 · Nov 2025 | 209 m |
| 15 Eastwood Rd · North 44 Property Management Inc | 24 | 4 | 1960 | 91 · Oct 2025 | 293 m · 3 min |
| 1320 Gerrard St E social housing | 45 | 5 | 1994 | 96 · Nov 2025 | 384 m · 5 min |
| 1636 Gerrard St E · Signet Group Inc. | 48 | 6 | 1960 | 92 · Sep 2026 | 565 m · 7 min |
22 registered buildings · 806 units · 13 social housing · tallest 7 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
Toronto Police place 24 thefts from vehicles and seven bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 5.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 3.1 a year. 71% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 43% of the bike thefts were from other premises.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 24 | 8 | 0 | street/outdoor (17), house driveway/garage (5) |
| Bicycle theft | 7 | 2 | 0 | other (3), house driveway/garage (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 Greenwood-Coxwell.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Ashdale & Gerrard a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 61 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 Ashdale & Gerrard?
A moderately travelled crossing at the City's last count here, in 2022. Its latest count is from Nov 22, 2022, 56% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Ashdale & Gerrard a walkable intersection?
Ashdale & Gerrard scores 68 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #982 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: 2 schools within 500 m · 4 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 36 places to eat within 300 m; 7 stops within 300 m · 8 routes within 1 km. The crossing itself: pedestrian crossover · traffic calming.
How fast do cars go at Ashdale & Gerrard?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Ashdale Ave between Lane N of Gerrard and E of Hiawatha and Fairford Ave (February 2020), found an average of 29 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 37 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.
Where can I park near Ashdale & Gerrard?
The nearest Green P car park is 151 Hiawatha Road (134 m away, 50 spaces). The City's mapping shows 337 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,780 spaces — 31 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1313 Gerrard ST E (399 m).
How do I get to Ashdale & Gerrard by transit?
Streetcar routes 506, 501, 503 stop within 1 km, the nearest 12 m away; bus routes 22, 31 within 1 km (nearest stop: Gerrard St East at Ashdale Ave, 241 m).
What restaurants are near Ashdale & Gerrard?
36 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 74 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Santa Madre (25 m), Chai Culture (28 m), Hakka Flame (33 m), Tandoori Wok (33 m) and Kohinoor Foods (36 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Ashdale & Gerrard?
The nearest is Greenwood Park Fieldhouse Washroom, 150 Greenwood Ave, 708 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Monarch Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom (861 m); Greenwood Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom (889 m).
Is there child care near Ashdale & Gerrard?
11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 833 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Petitecare (84 m, 34 spaces), Blue Bell Academy Inc (115 m, 38 spaces) and Roden Community Child Care Centre (241 m, 59 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Ashdale & Gerrard?
22 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 806 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1430 Gerrard St E (59 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 279 Woodfield Rd (190 m, 42 units, RentSafeTO score 83), 1395 Gerrard St E (209 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 90) and 15 Eastwood Rd (293 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 91). The average RentSafeTO score across the 22 is 91 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Ashdale & Gerrard?
Toronto Police place 24 thefts from vehicles and seven bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Greenwood-Coxwell page.
What neighbourhood is Ashdale & Gerrard in?
Ashdale & Gerrard is in Greenwood-Coxwell (City of Toronto neighbourhood 065). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher. The corner falls inside the Gerrard India Bazaar Business Improvement Area.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Nov 22, 2022.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; Traffic Calming Database.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 14 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.67231, -79.32183 · centreline node 13462953.