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Avenue & Douglas

Avenue Rd & Douglas Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Bedford Park-Nortown · Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence

In Bedford Park-Nortown, Avenue & Douglas is a heavily travelled arterial crossing. It has parks at the corner. Nearby: 4 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
20,618
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 2, 2018
852 pedestrians · 47 cyclists
Collisions
17
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 13 property damage · #3593 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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 2,580 vehicles an hour, 2.2× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 24 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. On average 1.7 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Avenue & Douglas

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
6152 nearest 11 m
Express
952
Blue Night
352
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m — Avenue Rd at Douglas Ave; Avenue Rd at Douglas Ave North Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Woburn Ave / Avenue Rd 191 m · 15 docks · 2 stations, 30 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 (20)
  • Avro AcademyPrivate · 267 m
  • Havergal Jr SchoolPrivate · 420 m
  • Havergal College Sr SchoolPrivate · 427 m
  • Lawrence Park Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 496 m
  • John Wanless Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 662 m
  • Glenview Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 683 m
  • and 14 more
Community centres
Parks (23)
  • Douglas Greenbelt147 m
  • Glengarry Park233 m
  • Bedford Parkette359 m
  • Brookdale Park368 m
  • Heart Park604 m
  • Phil Givens Park630 m
  • and 17 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Locke branch1.2 km
  • Toronto Public Library Barbara Frum branch1.3 km
Places of interest
  • Alexander Muir Memorial GardensNature/ 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 12 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 38 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Da Venezia Gourmet Pizza, 30 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés12 within 300 m · 38 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Iq Foods · 1560 Avenue Rdgrocery28 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Da Venezia Gourmet Pizza · 1568 Avenue Rd Unit-230 mPassed, Jul 2026
Moto Via Avenue · 1554 Avenue Rd42 mPassed, Aug 2025
Motovia · 1554 Avenue Rd43 mConditional pass, Jul 2026 · 5 infractions
12 Tables · 1552 Avenue Rd46 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Pizzaiolo · 1548 Avenue Rd57 mPassed, Apr 2026
Rosie's Burgers · 1542 Avenue Rd75 mPassed, Sep 2026 · 1 infraction
Bento Sushi · 1539 Avenue Rd76 mPassed, Dec 2025

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 Otter Creek Centre Outdoor Rink Washroom, 606 m away — currently listed as closed (closed for the season); in season it is View outdoor rink hours. A drinking fountain is 294 m away at Brookdale Park.

  • Otter Creek Centre Outdoor Rink Washroom · 140 Cheritan Ave
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    606 m
  • Ledbury Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom · 160 Ledbury St
    View facility hours
    804 m
  • Woburn Avenue Playground Washroom · 75 Woburn Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    924 m
Drinking water
Brookdale Park drinking fountain · 294 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 905 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Avenue Road Child Care (1498 Avenue Road) (199 m, 93 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km7 centres · 905 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 7
  • Avenue Road Child Care (1498 Avenue Road) · 1498 Avenue Rd
    93 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    199 m
  • John Wanless Child Care · 245 Fairlawn Ave
    254 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    662 m
  • Alphabet Treehouse Childcare Centre · 1780 Avenue Rd
    140 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool
    678 m
  • Toronto Cheder · 410 Lawrence Ave W
    16 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    688 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 132 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 53 Division (2.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.4 km away.

FireFire Station 132 · 1.1 km476 Lawrence Ave W
Police53 Division · 2.3 km75 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 18 · 2.4 km643 Eglinton Ave 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

Three registered apartment buildings with 115 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 312 Douglas Ave (41 m, 11 units, 3 storeys, built 1951), which scored 75 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 83, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 1 final order naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings3 · 115 units
RentSafeTO score83 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20261 across the 3
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest7 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
312 Douglas Ave · Avenue Road Investment Limited113195175 · Jun 20240 · 2 fire41 m
284 Lawrence Ave W · Landlord Property and Rental Management153194077 · Sep 20251160 m
515 Rosewell Ave · Bentallgreenoak897200598 · Sep 20250284 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 lots447 lots · ≈15,850 spaces · 47.5 ha
Within 500 m34 lots · ≈1,070 spaces
Green P (public)6 car parks · about 403 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking21 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1880 Avenue Rd · Surface1 km3232% (Q1 2026)
23 Bedford Park Ave · Surface1 km4254% (Q1 2026)
246 Brooke Ave · Surface1.1 km9467% (Q1 2026)
25 Glenforest Road · Surface1.3 km26 *
6 Sherwood Avenue · Surface1.8 km46 *

Nearest lots: 38 m away, ≈34 spaces; 53 m away, ≈26 spaces; 60 m away, ≈41 spaces; 109 m away, ≈148 spaces; 112 m away, ≈3 spaces; 128 m away, ≈20 spaces.

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 2, 2018

The south leg carries the load — 10,464 northbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 142. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,773 vehicles in the hour from 7:30 a.m. and 2,853 from 4:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.2% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 8 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2018, 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 north9,817southbound · 21 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the west142eastbound · 2 bikes · 0.7% heavy
Total vehicles20,618852 pedestrians · 47 cyclists · 3.2% heavy
From the east195westbound · 2 bikes · 1.5% heavy
From the south10,464northbound · 22 bikes · 3.2% heavy
AM peak hour2,773 vehicles from 7:30 a.m.
PM peak hour2,853 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 2, 2018

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 Douglas Ave between Avenue Rd and Grey Rd (120 m away) recorded an average of 33 km/h in its 24-hour count in May 2009; 85% of drivers were at or under 44 km/h. That segment carries about 900 vehicles a day. The reading is 17 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Rosewell Ave (312 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 524 vehicles logged in May 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Douglas Ave · Avenue Rd – Grey Rd · 120 mMay 2009 · 24 h85433 km/h44 km/h49 km/h
Avenue Rd · Lawrence Ave W – Glengarry Ave · 129 mSep 2012 · 3 days14,081

School-zone speed sign 312 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct0 · 0 km/h
Over the limit0.0%
40 km/h or more0.0%

Rosewell Ave (southbound), W Side Rosewell Ave Approx 107m S of Lawrence Ave W · 524 vehicles logged in May 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

2017 was the peak year (4 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 12% of collisions here involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 18% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 5, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions17#3593 of 5,508
With an injury2#3585 of 4,660
Property damage only13
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201425latest Jun 5, 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 no 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 vehicle410apartment parking (2), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 16, 2025. 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 Bedford Park-Nortown.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Avenue & Douglas a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 17 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 Avenue & Douglas?

A heavily travelled arterial crossing. Its latest count is from May 2, 2018, 2.2× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Avenue & Douglas?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Douglas Ave between Avenue Rd and Grey Rd (May 2009), found an average of 33 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 44 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 312 m away (30 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in May 2026.

Where can I park near Avenue & Douglas?

The nearest Green P car park is 1880 Avenue Rd (1.0 km away, 32 spaces, 32% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 447 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 15,850 spaces — 34 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Avenue & Douglas by transit?

Bus routes 61, 52, 952 within 1 km (nearest stop: Avenue Rd at Douglas Ave, 11 m).

What restaurants are near Avenue & Douglas?

12 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 38 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Da Venezia Gourmet Pizza (30 m), Moto Via Avenue (42 m), Motovia (43 m), 12 Tables (46 m) and Pizzaiolo (57 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 Avenue & Douglas?

The nearest is Otter Creek Centre Outdoor Rink Washroom, 140 Cheritan Ave, 606 m away (View outdoor rink hours). The City currently lists it as closed: closed for the season. Next nearest: Ledbury Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom (804 m); Woburn Avenue Playground Washroom (924 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 Avenue & Douglas?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 905 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Avenue Road Child Care (1498 Avenue Road) (199 m, 93 spaces), John Wanless Child Care (662 m, 254 spaces) and Alphabet Treehouse Childcare Centre (678 m, 140 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Avenue & Douglas?

Three RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 115 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 312 Douglas Ave (41 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 75), 284 Lawrence Ave W (160 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 77) and 515 Rosewell Ave (284 m, 89 units, RentSafeTO score 98). The average RentSafeTO score across the 3 is 83 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 Avenue & Douglas?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and no 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 Bedford Park-Nortown page.

What neighbourhood is Avenue & Douglas in?

Avenue & Douglas is in Bedford Park-Nortown (City of Toronto neighbourhood 039). It is in Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence, represented by Councillor Mike Colle.

Sources

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