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Barton & Clinton

Barton Ave & Clinton St · Toronto, Ontario · Annex · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

In the Annex, in central Toronto, Barton & Clinton is a low-volume local intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has a bike lane at the corner. Nearby: Christie Station (Line 2) 278 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
1,741
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 5, 2005
676 pedestrians · 526 cyclists
Collisions
10
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 9 property damage · #4251 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
1
TTC stop within 100 m
Christie Station 278 m · 1 streetcar route · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings)
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 220 vehicles an hour, 19% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 2.6 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 30.2% of vehicle volume, about 39× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 1 collision 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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Barton & Clinton

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Christie Station (Line 2)278 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)509 m; Ossington Station (Line 2)793 m
Streetcar
511 nearest 574 m
TTC bus
1267266394161 nearest 95 m
Blue Night
300307363
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m — Christie St at Barton Ave
Cycling
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Barton Ave installed 2001
Bike Share
Essex St / Christie St 250 m · 19 docks · 27 stations, 510 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 (35)
  • Palmerston Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 297 m
  • Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 355 m
  • Monsignor Fraser College - Annex CampusEnglish Separate · 378 m
  • St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 383 m
  • Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 481 m
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 501 m
  • and 29 more
Community centres
Parks (38)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch392 m
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Davenport branch1.2 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 702 m
  • Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 1 km
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 1.2 km
  • Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 1.4 km
  • Casa LomaAttraction · 1.4 km
  • Bata Shoe 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

There are 3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 275 eating places within a kilometre — 3.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Brokn Milk, 90 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés3 within 300 m · 275 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 34 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Brokn Milk · 151 Barton Ave90 mPassed, Jul 2026
Morellina's · 146 Christie St147 mPassed, May 2026
The Tiny General Store · 80 Barton Ave192 mPassed, May 2026 · 4 infractions
Fiesta Farms Supermarket · 200 Christie St Unit-1grocery245 mPassed, Apr 2026
Yellow Flower · 721 Palmerston Ave306 mPassed, Aug 2026
Champions On Bloor · 696 Bloor St W315 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Karma Co-Operative · 739 Palmerston Ave315 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Pour Boy Pub · 666 Manning Ave323 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction

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 Christie Pits Park Washroom, 288 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 324 m away at Christie Pits Park.

  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    288 m
  • Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · 779 Crawford St
    View outdoor pool hours
    355 m
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    515 m
Drinking water
Christie Pits Park drinking fountain · 324 m; Alex Duff Memorial Pool drinking fountain · 351 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

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 927 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Palmerston Community Daycare (297 m, 139 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km10 centres · 927 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 10
  • Palmerston Community Daycare · 734 Palmerston Ave
    139 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    297 m
  • Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care · 50 Essex St
    179 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    355 m
  • Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie · 703 Bloor St W
    56 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    375 m
  • Les Bouts D'choux · 98 Essex St
    116 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    481 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 344 (865 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 429 m away.

FireFire Station 344 · 865 m240 Howland Ave
Police14 Division · 1.8 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 34 · 429 m674 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

34 registered apartment buildings with 1,346 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 161 Christie St (146 m, 15 units, 4 storeys, built 1965), which scored 91 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 34 scored below 70; the average is 86, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 10 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 16 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings34 · 1,346 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score86 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202610 across the 34
Open fire-code violations16
Tallest18 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
161 Christie St · Canlight Management Inc.154196591 · Jul 20260146 m
42 Barton Ave · Tyndallwood Investments Ltd2441929100 · Jul 20260367 m
711 Bloor St W123192023 · Jul 20260374 m
723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate1641920100 · Jul 20260385 m
38 Barton Ave · Castlehill Property Management184191976 · Oct 20251 · 5 fire389 m
336 Clinton St173199295 · Oct 20250460 m
922 Bathurst St · Aston Court Residences Inc183193093 · Jun 20260489 m
496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc243193085 · Jul 20250490 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 lots832 lots · ≈21,610 spaces · 64.8 ha
Within 500 m47 lots · ≈760 spaces
Green P (public)29 car parks · about 1,588 spaces
EV charging (City)273 Christie St · 489 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking27 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 101 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
376 Clinton St · Surface272 m3468% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface308 m4981% (Q1 2026)
557 Palmerston Ave · Surface436 m5580% (Q1 2026)
365 Lippincott St · Surface730 m13654% (Q1 2026)
745 Ossington Ave · Surface759 m4667% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 129 m away, ≈18 spaces; 137 m away, ≈9 spaces; 195 m away, ≈39 spaces; 233 m away, ≈38 spaces; 246 m away, ≈11 spaces; 251 m away, ≈14 spaces. More EV charging: 705 Shaw St (713 m, 2 ports); 365 Lippincott St. (721 m, 10 ports); 685 Dovercourt Rd (1.2 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, Oct 5, 2005

The west leg carries the load — 492 eastbound vehicles, or 28% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 379. Most cyclists arrived from the west (219 of 526). Morning rush is the busier period: 350 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 259 from 4:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 0.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 21 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2005, 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 north379southbound · 68 bikes · 0.5% heavy
From the west492eastbound · 219 bikes · 0.8% heavy
Total vehicles1,741676 pedestrians · 526 cyclists · 0.6% heavy
From the east473westbound · 180 bikes · 0.4% heavy
From the south397northbound · 59 bikes · 0.8% heavy
AM peak hour350 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour259 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 5, 2005

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 Clinton St between Shady Lane and Follis Ave (109 m away) recorded an average of 35 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2008; 85% of drivers were at or under 47 km/h. That segment carries about 500 vehicles a day. Barton Ave between Lane W of Palmerston Av and S of Barton and Euclid Ave measured slower: 24 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 31 km/h (Jan 2026). The reading is 18 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Euclid Ave (214 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.3% of the 39,047 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Clinton St · Shady Lane – Follis Ave · 109 mNov 2008 · 3 days46535 km/h47 km/h53 km/h
Barton Ave · Lane W of Palmerston Av and S of Barton – Euclid Ave · 229 mJan 2026 · 3 days1,97724 km/h31 km/h36 km/h

School-zone speed sign 214 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct19 · 29 km/h
Over the limit2.3%
40 km/h or more0.3%

Euclid Ave (northbound), 798 Euclid Avenue · 39,047 vehicles logged in July 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

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 2 collisions. 10% of collisions here involved an injury. 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 Apr 2, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions10#4251 of 5,508
With an injury1#4082 of 4,660
Property damage only9
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201413latest Apr 2, 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 eight thefts from vehicles and four bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 2 in 2023–2025, about 0.7 a year, against 1.4 a year before that. 50% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle820street/outdoor (4), house driveway/garage (3)
Bicycle theft400house driveway/garage (2), other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jan 2, 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 Annex.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Barton & Clinton a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 10 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 Barton & Clinton?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 5, 2005, 19% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Barton & Clinton?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Clinton St between Shady Lane and Follis Ave (November 2008), found an average of 35 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 47 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 214 m away (30 km/h), 0.3% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Barton & Clinton?

The nearest Green P car park is 376 Clinton St (272 m away, 34 spaces, 68% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 832 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,610 spaces — 47 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 273 Christie St (489 m).

How do I get to Barton & Clinton by transit?

Christie Station (Line 2) is 278 m away; streetcar route 511 stop within 1 km, the nearest 574 m away; bus routes 126, 7, 26, 63, 94, 161 within 1 km (nearest stop: Christie St at Barton Ave, 95 m).

What restaurants are near Barton & Clinton?

3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 275 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Brokn Milk (90 m), Morellina's (147 m), The Tiny General Store (192 m), Yellow Flower (306 m) and Champions On Bloor (315 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 Barton & Clinton?

The nearest is Christie Pits Park Washroom, 750 Bloor St W, 288 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (355 m); Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (515 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 Barton & Clinton?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 927 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Palmerston Community Daycare (297 m, 139 spaces), Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care (355 m, 179 spaces) and Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie (375 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Barton & Clinton?

34 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,346 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 161 Christie St (146 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 42 Barton Ave (367 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 711 Bloor St W (374 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 23) and 723 Bloor St W (385 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 34 is 86 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 Barton & Clinton?

Toronto Police place eight thefts from vehicles and four 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 Annex page.

What neighbourhood is Barton & Clinton in?

Barton & Clinton is in Annex (City of Toronto neighbourhood 095). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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