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Avenue & Poplar Plains

Avenue Rd & Poplar Plains Cres · Toronto, Ontario · Yonge-St.Clair · Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's

Avenue & Poplar Plains is a high-volume crossing. It sits in Yonge-St.Clair. At the corner: a school within 250 m. Nearby: Summerhill Station (Line 1) 679 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
19,530
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 20, 2017
552 pedestrians · 273 cyclists
Collisions
23
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 20 property damage · #3187 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Summerhill Station 679 m · 1 streetcar route · 8 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 2,440 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 2.1× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 35 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 2.3 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 23%, from 13 in 2016–2020 to 10 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Avenue & Poplar Plains

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Summerhill Station (Line 1)679 m; St Clair Station (Line 1)885 m; Dupont Station (Line 1)914 m; Rosedale Station (Line 1)926 m
Streetcar
512 nearest 674 m
TTC bus
13192697127748882 nearest 122 m
Blue Night
312320
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Avenue Rd / Macpherson Ave 317 m · 15 docks · 18 stations, 258 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 (31)
  • de Lasalle College SchoolPrivate · 170 m
  • Cottingham Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 279 m
  • The Mabin SchoolPrivate · 394 m
  • Brown Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 497 m
  • The York School - Mdl and Sr CampusPrivate · 643 m
  • Arrowsmith School - Bldg 2Private · 751 m
  • and 25 more
Parks (49)
  • Robertson Davies Park266 m
  • Macpherson Avenue Parkette328 m
  • Poplar Plains Parkette343 m
  • Sergeant Ryan Russell Parkette373 m
  • Lionel Conacher Park373 m
  • Marlborough Place Parkette404 m
  • and 43 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Deer Park branch1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Yorkville branch1.3 km
  • Toronto Public Library Toronto Reference Library branch1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Spadina MuseumMuseum · 761 m
  • Casa LomaAttraction · 890 m
  • Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.3 km
  • Village of Yorkville ParkNature/ Park · 1.3 km
  • Toronto Reference LibraryLandmark · 1.4 km
  • Royal Conservatory of MusicPerforming Arts · 1.4 km
  • Koerner Hall (at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning)Performing Arts · 1.4 km
  • Gardiner MuseumMuseum · 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 2 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 127. The nearest is Scaramouche, 116 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026 with 3 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés2 within 300 m · 127 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 19 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Scaramouche · 1 Benvenuto Pl116 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
South Hill Market Inc · 398 Avenue Rdgrocery187 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Barberia Uno · 274 Avenue Rd250 mPassed, Dec 2025
Blondies · 16 Dupont St394 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Govinda's Vegetarian Cuisine · 243 Avenue Rd446 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 3 infractions
Lashgod · 236 Avenue Rd, Flr-3rd457 mPassed, May 2025
Playa Cabana · 111 Dupont St554 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
The Bradgate Arms · 54 Foxbar Rd569 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 4 infractions

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 Ramsden Park Washroom, 602 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 352 m away at Lionel Conacher Park.

  • Ramsden Park Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    602 m
  • Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    746 m
  • Sir Winston Churchill Park Washroom · 301 St. Clair Ave W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    850 m
Drinking water
Lionel Conacher Park bottle filling station · 352 m; Sergeant Ryan Russell Parkette bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 371 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

Eight licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 680 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Cottingham Child Care Centre (279 m, 80 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km8 centres · 680 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 8
  • Cottingham Child Care Centre · 85 Birch Ave
    80 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    279 m
  • Unicorn Day Care Centre · 240 Avenue Rd
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    434 m
  • Trust Child Care Inc. · 29 Birch Ave
    150 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day
    497 m
  • Unicorn Day Care Centre Toronto · 454 Avenue Rd
    170 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    497 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 311 (707 m), the nearest police station 53 Division (2.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 817 m away.

FireFire Station 311 · 707 m20 Balmoral Ave
Police53 Division · 2.8 km75 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 45 · 817 m135 Davenport Rd

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 72 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 5,727 rental units, 3.1× the median for a Toronto intersection — two social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 330 Avenue Rd (34 m, 19 units, 3 storeys, built 1925), which scored 93 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 111 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 29 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings72 · 5,727 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026111 across the 72
Open fire-code violations29
Tallest32 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
330 Avenue Rd193192593 · Jul 2026234 m
340 Avenue Rd244192597 · Jul 2026236 m
326 Avenue Rd183192596 · Nov 2025144 m
342 Avenue Rd244192594 · Jul 2026047 m
320 Avenue Rd244192596 · Aug 2026055 m
394 Avenue Rd · Cromwell Management Inc.416193193 · Aug 20250147 m
396 Avenue Rd · Cromwell Management Inc.516193198 · Aug 20260168 m
291 Avenue Rd · Habosh Investments Inc.968195697 · Aug 20264172 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 lots756 lots · ≈29,420 spaces · 88.2 ha
Within 500 m40 lots · ≈1,070 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 3,054 spaces
EV charging (City)20 Delisle Ave. · 1 km · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parking9 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 10 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
251 Maherson Ave · Surface390 m4024% (Q1 2026)
15 Price St · Surface734 m71 *
30 St. Clair Avenue West · Garage856 m173 *
21 Pleasant Blvd. · Garage863 m557 *
1010 Yonge St. · Surface939 m48 *

Nearest lots: 91 m away, ≈7 spaces; 97 m away, ≈19 spaces; 145 m away, ≈34 spaces; 184 m away, ≈443 spaces; 185 m away, ≈11 spaces; 189 m away, ≈17 spaces. More EV charging: 10 Delisle St (1 km, 4 ports); 74 Yorkville Ave (1.2 km, 9 ports); 41 Inglewood Dr (1.5 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, Jun 20, 2017

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 9,722 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 50% of the total, against 177 from the west. Most cyclists arrived from the north (164 of 273). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,770 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 2,715 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 9 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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 north9,722southbound · 164 bikes · 2.5% heavy
From the west177eastbound · 11 bikes · 4.5% heavy
Total vehicles19,530552 pedestrians · 273 cyclists · 2.7% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south9,631northbound · 98 bikes · 3.0% heavy
AM peak hour2,770 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour2,715 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jun 20, 2017

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 Avenue Rd between Dupont St and Macpherson Ave, 388 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2024 put the average speed at 33 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 45 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 50 km/h or more. That segment carries about 47,300 vehicles a day. Poplar Plains Cres between Avenue Rd and Rathnelly Ave measured slower: 31 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 39 km/h (Oct 2025).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Poplar Plains Cres · Avenue Rd – Rathnelly Ave · 108 mOct 2025 · 3 days73631 km/h39 km/h44 km/h
Poplar Plains Rd · Cottingham St – Poplar Plains Cres · 369 mFeb 2024 · 3 days2,58024 km/h32 km/h35 km/h
Avenue Rd · Dupont St – Macpherson Ave · 388 mMay 2024 · 3 days47,28933 km/h45 km/h50 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 2022, with 5 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 3 collisions (13%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 9% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Aug 28, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions23#3187 of 5,508
With an injury3#3171 of 4,660
Property damage only20
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist2#985 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
All since 201429latest Aug 28, 2024

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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Jun 25, 2008.

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 one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft100apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 11, 2019. 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 Yonge-St.Clair.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Avenue & Poplar Plains a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 23 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 & Poplar Plains?

A high-volume crossing. Its latest count is from Jun 20, 2017, 2.1× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Avenue & Poplar Plains?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Avenue Rd between Dupont St and Macpherson Ave (May 2024), found an average of 33 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 45 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Avenue & Poplar Plains?

The nearest Green P car park is 251 Maherson Ave (390 m away, 40 spaces, 24% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 756 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 29,420 spaces — 40 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 20 Delisle Ave. (1.0 km).

How do I get to Avenue & Poplar Plains by transit?

Summerhill Station (Line 1) is 679 m away; streetcar route 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 674 m away; bus routes 13, 19, 26, 97, 127, 74, 88, 82 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Avenue & Poplar Plains?

2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 127 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Scaramouche (116 m), Barberia Uno (250 m), Blondies (394 m), Govinda's Vegetarian Cuisine (446 m) and Lashgod (457 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 & Poplar Plains?

The nearest is Ramsden Park Washroom, 1020 Yonge St, 602 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (746 m); Sir Winston Churchill Park Washroom (850 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 & Poplar Plains?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 680 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Cottingham Child Care Centre (279 m, 80 spaces), Unicorn Day Care Centre (434 m, 39 spaces) and Trust Child Care Inc. (497 m, 150 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Avenue & Poplar Plains?

72 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 5,727 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 330 Avenue Rd (34 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 340 Avenue Rd (36 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 97), 326 Avenue Rd (44 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 342 Avenue Rd (47 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 72 is 91 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 & Poplar Plains?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle 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 Yonge-St.Clair page.

What neighbourhood is Avenue & Poplar Plains in?

Avenue & Poplar Plains is in Yonge-St.Clair (City of Toronto neighbourhood 097). It is in Ward 12, Toronto-St. Paul's, represented by Councillor Josh Matlow.

Sources

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