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Barton & Crawford

Barton Ave & Crawford St · Toronto, Ontario · Dovercourt Village · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

In Dovercourt Village, in central Toronto, Barton & Crawford is a lightly travelled intersection, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: a bike lane, a school within 250 m and a park. Nearby: Christie Station (Line 2) 379 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
955
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 11, 2006
298 pedestrians · 204 cyclists
Collisions
22
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 15 property damage · #3268 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
Christie Station 379 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 120 vehicles an hour, 10% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 3 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 21.4% of vehicle volume, about 28× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 2.2 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions rose 44%, from 9 in 2016–2020 to 13 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Barton & Crawford

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)379 m; Ossington Station (Line 2)429 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)881 m
Streetcar
511 nearest 1 km
TTC bus
1266316194267 nearest 303 m
Blue Night
363300307
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Crawford St installed 2001; Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Barton Ave installed 2001
Bike Share
Shaw St / Essex St - SMART 221 m · 15 docks · 22 stations, 407 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)
  • St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 42 m
  • Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 261 m
  • Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 300 m
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 448 m
  • Palmerston Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 705 m
  • Monsignor Fraser College - Annex CampusEnglish Separate · 785 m
  • and 25 more
Parks (37)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch734 m
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Davenport branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1 km
  • 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

Toronto Public Health inspects 4 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 237 — 3.2× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Paleta Kings Storage On Essex, 229 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés4 within 300 m · 237 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 41 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Paleta Kings Storage On Essex · 127 Essex St229 mPassed, Jun 2026
Ecole Elementaire Catholique du Sacre-Coeur Snp · 98 Essex St262 mPassed, May 2024
Les Bouts D'choux · 98 Essex St262 mPassed, Sep 2026
Banjara Indian Cuisine- Mobile Truck · 796 Bloor St W 2294 mPassed, Jun 2026
Ba Noi · 806 Bloor St W301 mPassed, Jun 2026
Chantecler · 798 Bloor St W311 mPassed, Aug 2026
Hello Coffee · 800 Bloor St W312 mPassed, Aug 2026
Banjara Indian Cuisine · 796 Bloor St W322 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 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 Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom, 128 m away, View outdoor pool hours. A drinking fountain is 115 m away at Alex Duff Memorial Pool.

  • Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · 779 Crawford St
    View outdoor pool hours
    128 m
  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    222 m
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    429 m
Drinking water
Alex Duff Memorial Pool drinking fountain · 115 m; Christie Pits Park drinking fountain · 246 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

11 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 951 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Les Bouts D'choux (261 m, 116 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km11 centres · 951 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 11
  • Les Bouts D'choux · 98 Essex St
    116 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    261 m
  • Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care · 50 Essex St
    179 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    300 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 756 Ossington Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    410 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 720 Ossington Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    485 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 691 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 1.2 km1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 1.6 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 691 m760 Dovercourt 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 28 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,659 rental units — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 177 Pendrith St (194 m, 54 units, 3 storeys, built 1964), which scored 85 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 28 scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 38 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 6 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings28 · 1,659 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202638 across the 28
Open fire-code violations6
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
177 Pendrith StToronto Community Housing · TCH543196485 · Aug 20250194 m
496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc243193085 · Jul 20250355 m
805 Bloor St Wsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes244198986 · Sep 20250 · 1 fire356 m
161 Christie St · Canlight Management Inc.154196591 · Jul 20260364 m
723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate1641920100 · Jul 20260473 m
711 Bloor St W123192023 · Jul 20260498 m
336 Clinton St173199295 · Oct 20250569 m
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 20250578 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 lots816 lots · ≈21,470 spaces · 64.4 ha
Within 500 m40 lots · ≈710 spaces
Green P (public)28 car parks · about 1,115 spaces
EV charging (City)705 Shaw St · 491 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingno post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 44 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
745 Ossington Ave · Surface404 m4667% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface474 m3468% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface591 m4981% (Q1 2026)
557 Palmerston Ave · Surface780 m5580% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface849 m3374% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 93 m away, ≈33 spaces; 94 m away, ≈28 spaces; 181 m away, ≈45 spaces; 219 m away, ≈21 spaces; 281 m away, ≈13 spaces; 292 m away, ≈17 spaces. More EV charging: 273 Christie St (598 m, 2 ports); 685 Dovercourt Rd (802 m, 2 ports); 365 Lippincott St. (1.1 km, 10 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, May 11, 2006

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. No single direction dominates: each approach carried between 287 and 353 vehicles. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 292 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 154% above the afternoon peak from 4:15 p.m. (115). Heavy vehicles made up 0.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 20 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2006, 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 north0southbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west315eastbound · 77 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles955298 pedestrians · 204 cyclists · 0.5% heavy
From the east287westbound · 65 bikes · 1.4% heavy
From the south353northbound · 62 bikes · 0.3% heavy
AM peak hour292 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour115 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 11, 2006

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 Crawford St between Christie Pits Park Trl and Barton Ave, 23 m from the corner, a 2-day count in November 2019 put the average speed at 32 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 40 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 44 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,100 vehicles a day. Barton Ave between Sandra Shamas Lane and Shaw St measured slower: 26 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 34 km/h (Sep 2021). The reading is 7 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Essex St (277 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 31,094 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Crawford St · Christie Pits Park Trl – Barton Ave · 23 mNov 2019 · 2 days1,11332 km/h40 km/h44 km/h
Barton Ave · Sandra Shamas Lane – Shaw St · 76 mSep 2021 · 3 days1,02326 km/h34 km/h39 km/h

School-zone speed sign 277 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct21 · 30 km/h
Over the limit0.1%
50 km/h or more0.0%

Essex St (westbound), Opp 49 Essex · 31,094 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 5 collisions. 1 collision (5%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 7 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 32% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Nov 23, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions22#3268 of 5,508
With an injury1#4083 of 4,660
Property damage only15
Fail to remain7
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified6
All since 201426latest Nov 23, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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

Three thefts from vehicles and six bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 67% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle310street/outdoor (2), commercial premises (1)
Bicycle theft620house driveway/garage (4), street/outdoor (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 8, 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 Dovercourt Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Barton & Crawford a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 22 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 & Crawford?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from May 11, 2006, 10% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Barton & Crawford?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Crawford St between Christie Pits Park Trl and Barton Ave (November 2019), found an average of 32 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 40 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 277 m away (40 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Barton & Crawford?

The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (404 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 816 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,470 spaces — 40 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 705 Shaw St (491 m).

How do I get to Barton & Crawford by transit?

Christie Station (Line 2) is 379 m away; streetcar route 511 stop within 1 km, the nearest 1.0 km away; bus routes 126, 63, 161, 94, 26, 7 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Barton & Crawford?

4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 237 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Paleta Kings Storage On Essex (229 m), Ecole Elementaire Catholique du Sacre-Coeur Snp (262 m), Les Bouts D'choux (262 m), Banjara Indian Cuisine- Mobile Truck (294 m) and Ba Noi (301 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 & Crawford?

The nearest is Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom, 779 Crawford St, 128 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Christie Pits Park Washroom (222 m); Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (429 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 & Crawford?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 951 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Les Bouts D'choux (261 m, 116 spaces), Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care (300 m, 179 spaces) and Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (410 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Barton & Crawford?

28 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,659 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 177 Pendrith St (194 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 496 Montrose Ave (355 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 805 Bloor St W (356 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 161 Christie St (364 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 91). The average RentSafeTO score across the 28 is 85 out of 100; 3 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 & Crawford?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and six 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 Dovercourt Village page.

What neighbourhood is Barton & Crawford in?

Barton & Crawford is in Dovercourt Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 172). 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