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Bathurst & Old Orchard

Bathurst St & Old Orchard Grv · Toronto, Ontario · Bedford Park-Nortown · Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence

Bathurst & Old Orchard is a busier-than-typical intersection. It sits in Bedford Park-Nortown. At the corner: a school within 250 m. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
17,832
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 13, 1993
581 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Collisions
27
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 17 property damage · #2941 of 5,508 · +2 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
6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 19 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 2,230 vehicles, 1.93× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 31 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 2.7 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions edged down 7%, from 14 in 2016–2020 to 13 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Bathurst & Old Orchard

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
740010996165160 nearest 48 m
Express
996
Blue Night
307396
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — Bathurst St at Baycrest Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Baycrest Ave / Bathurst St 73 m · 19 docks · 1 station, 19 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 (23)
  • Bais Chomesh High School For GirlsPrivate · 240 m
  • Associated Hebrew Jr School - Posluns CampusPrivate · 322 m
  • Ledbury Park Elementary & Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 432 m
  • Clover School Midtown - Elementary CampusPrivate · 660 m
  • St Margaret - Beatrice Campus and Baycrest PublicEnglish Separate · 779 m
  • Bais Yaakov Elementary SchoolPrivate · 852 m
  • and 17 more
Parks (19)
  • Elijah Park463 m
  • Ledbury Park584 m
  • Grey Parkette773 m
  • Prince Charles Park775 m
  • Woburn Park - North York793 m
  • Touraine Parkette815 m
  • and 13 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Barbara Frum branch932 m
  • Toronto Public Library Armour Heights branch1.4 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 30 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 62. The nearest is Surreal Sweets, 13 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026 with 3 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés30 within 300 m · 62 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 10 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Surreal Sweets · 3513 Bathurst St13 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Soul Bagel · 3515 Bathurst St28 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Hartmans · 3500 Bathurst St30 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 4 infractions
Tinuno · 3520 Bathurst St31 mPassed, Jul 2026
Dr. Laffa On the GO · 3519 Bathurst St33 mPassed, Jun 2025
Gouter · 3507 Bathurst St41 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Tov-Li Pizza & Falafel · 3523 Bathurst St42 mConditional pass, Sep 2026 · 4 infractions
Tov-Li Pizza & Falafel · 3523 Bathurst St42 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 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 Ledbury Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom, 600 m away, View facility hours. A drinking fountain is 582 m away at Ledbury Park.

  • Ledbury Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom · 160 Ledbury St
    View facility hours
    600 m
  • Barbara Frum Community Centre Washroom · 20 Covington Rd
    View centre hours
    933 m
Drinking water
Ledbury Park drinking fountain · 582 m; Ledbury Park drinking fountain · 587 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 875 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Posluns Education Centre (322 m, 120 spaces, preschool, kindergarten).

Within 1 km8 centres · 875 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 8
  • Posluns Education Centre · 18 Neptune Dr
    120 spaces · preschool, kindergarten · $10-a-day
    322 m
  • Gan Shalom Preschool (Op-Chabad On the Avenue) · 157 Falkirk St
    133 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    386 m
  • Ledbury Park Child Care Program · 95 Falkirk St
    166 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    432 m
  • The Clover School · 3180 Bathurst St
    114 spaces · toddler, preschool
    717 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 13 Division (3.4 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.1 km away.

FireFire Station 132 · 1.1 km476 Lawrence Ave W
Police13 Division · 3.4 km1435 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 54 · 2.1 km4135 Bathurst 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

Within a kilometre there are 81 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,273 rental units, 3.5× the median for a Toronto intersection — six social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 23 Neptune Dr (254 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1950), which scored 92 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 51 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 11 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings81 · 2,273 units · 6 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202651 across the 81
Open fire-code violations11
Tallest19 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
23 Neptune Dr103195092 · Sep 20250254 m
21 Neptune Dr103195094 · Sep 20250260 m
31 Wasdale Cres113195097 · Aug 20260270 m
33 Wasdale Cres · 1957248 Ontario Inc113196083 · Oct 20250282 m
35 Wasdale Cres · Greto Investments103195594 · Jul 20240292 m
3575 Bathurst St · Sterling Karamar Property Management617196087 · Aug 202417 · 8 fire302 m
37 Wasdale Cres · Cristina Dolenz113196093 · Sep 20240308 m
3388 Bathurst St · Sterling Karamar Property Management344195896 · Jul 20254314 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 lots464 lots · ≈31,510 spaces · 94.5 ha
Within 500 m48 lots · ≈2,730 spaces
Green P (public)5 car parks · about 1,728 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parking1 post-and-ring within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
246 Brooke Ave · Surface1 km9467% (Q1 2026)
1880 Avenue Rd · Surface1.1 km3232% (Q1 2026)
Wilson South Lot - 30 Tippett Road · Surface1.3 km645 *
Wilson Main Lot - 50 Wilson Heights Blvd · Surface1.6 km885 *
Transit Road Lot - 25 Transit Rd · Surface1.7 km72 *

Nearest lots: 27 m away, ≈62 spaces; 42 m away, ≈18 spaces; 52 m away, ≈26 spaces; 60 m away, ≈57 spaces; 61 m away, ≈12 spaces; 78 m away, ≈47 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 13, 1993

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 9,078 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 342 from the east. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,419 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,536 from 4:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 33 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 1993, 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 north9,078southbound · 0 bikes · 2.9% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles17,832581 pedestrians · 0 cyclists · 3.3% heavy
From the east342westbound · 0 bikes · 5.0% heavy
From the south8,412northbound · 0 bikes · 3.5% heavy
AM peak hour2,419 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour2,536 vehicles from 4:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 13, 1993

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 most recent midblock count on Bathurst St between Old Orchard Grv and Baycrest Ave (30 m away, May 2013) recorded volume only — about 15,759 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Bathurst St · Old Orchard Grv – Baycrest Ave · 30 mMay 2013 · 3 days15,759

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 2016, with 8 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 4 collisions (15%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 7 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 26% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (4%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Apr 10, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions27#2941 of 5,508
With an injury4#2882 of 4,660
Property damage only17
Fail to remain7
Involving a pedestrian1#2195 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified6
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201432latest Apr 10, 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

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Bathurst & Old Orchard a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 27 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 Bathurst & Old Orchard?

A busier-than-typical intersection. Its latest count is from May 13, 1993, 1.93× the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Bathurst & Old Orchard?

The nearest Green P car park is 246 Brooke Ave (1.0 km away, 94 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 464 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 31,510 spaces — 48 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Bathurst & Old Orchard by transit?

Bus routes 7, 400, 109, 96, 165, 160, 996 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bathurst St at Baycrest Ave, 48 m).

What restaurants are near Bathurst & Old Orchard?

30 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 62 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Surreal Sweets (13 m), Soul Bagel (28 m), Hartmans (30 m), Tinuno (31 m) and Dr. Laffa On the GO (33 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 Bathurst & Old Orchard?

The nearest is Ledbury Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom, 160 Ledbury St, 600 m away (View facility hours). Next nearest: Barbara Frum Community Centre Washroom (933 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 Bathurst & Old Orchard?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 875 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Posluns Education Centre (322 m, 120 spaces), Gan Shalom Preschool (Op-Chabad On the Avenue) (386 m, 133 spaces) and Ledbury Park Child Care Program (432 m, 166 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bathurst & Old Orchard?

81 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,273 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 23 Neptune Dr (254 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 21 Neptune Dr (260 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 31 Wasdale Cres (270 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 33 Wasdale Cres (282 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 81 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.

What neighbourhood is Bathurst & Old Orchard in?

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

Sources

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