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Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy

Toronto, Ontario · Harbourfront-CityPlace · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York · CityPlace and Fort York BIA

Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy, in Harbourfront-CityPlace, in the downtown core, is an intersection of typical volume. At the corner: a live City traffic camera. Nearby: 12 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
6,046
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 24, 2022
1,016 pedestrians · 83 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
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
5 streetcar routes · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 85 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 760 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 65% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 6 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13.

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Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy

Live traffic camera

The City's RESCU camera at F G Gardiner Xy E & Bathurst St — a 320 × 240 still the City replaces every few minutes, with the frame's age and its four fixed reference views

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Live camera RESCU 9206 · F G Gardiner Xy E & Bathurst St · 29 m from the node
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Fixed views the City's reference still for each direction

The City's own feed for Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy, published as a 320 × 240 still that its server replaces every few minutes — the card checks for a new frame every 45 seconds while you are on the page (Reload checks now) and says whether the frame changed. The fixed views are the City's reference stills showing where the camera points in each direction.

Live camera · RESCU 9206 · F G Gardiner Xy E & Bathurst St
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Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
511509510504508 nearest 77 m
TTC bus
2963 nearest 823 m
Blue Night
310304307363329
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — Bathurst St at Fort York Blvd
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Bathurst St / Housey St 23 m · 23 docks · 55 stations, 1,296 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 (11)
  • City SchoolEnglish Public · 318 m
  • The Waterfront SchoolEnglish Public · 357 m
  • Bishop Macdonell Catholic ElementaryEnglish Separate · 499 m
  • Jean Lumb Public SchoolEnglish Public · 499 m
  • Alpha Alternative & Oasis AlternativeEnglish Public · 872 m
  • Niagara Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 922 m
  • and 5 more
Parks (43)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Fort York branch136 m
Places of interest
  • Fort York National Historic SiteMuseum · 345 m
  • Toronto Music GardenNature/ Park · 492 m
  • Arcadia EarthAttraction · 609 m
  • The WellLandmark · 640 m
  • iArts MuseumMuseum · 767 m
  • Factory TheatrePerforming Arts · 855 m
  • Beanfield CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 940 m
  • Rogers CentreSports / Entertainment Venue · 1 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 22 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 5 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 361 — 4.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Wingsup!, 47 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés22 within 300 m · 361 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience5 within 300 m · 39 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Wingsup! · 22 Bathurst St None47 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Am2pm Express Market · 26 Bathurst Stgrocery53 mPassed, May 2025
Gong Cha · 85 Housey St None84 mPassed, Mar 2026
McDonald's · 19 Bathurst St Unit-B88 mPassed, Jul 2026
Tim Hortons · 2 Bruyeres Mews91 mPassed, Aug 2025
Tim Hortons · 2 Bruyeres Mews91 mPassed, Aug 2026
Subway · 20 Bathurst St Unit-1396 mPassed, Jul 2026
Aroma Espresso Bar · 161 Fort York Blvd96 mPassed, Jul 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 Little Norway Park Washroom, 466 m away, open 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 325 m away at June Callwood Park.

  • Little Norway Park Washroom · 659 Queens Quay W
    9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. · accessible
    466 m
  • Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 95 Fort York Blvd
    View centre hours
    481 m
  • Coronation Park Toronto Washroom · 711 Lake Shore Blvd W
    9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
    552 m
Drinking water
June Callwood Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 325 m; Canoe Landing Park drinking fountain · 328 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 1,088 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Neighbourhood Group Harbourfront Child Care (281 m, 36 spaces, infant, toddler).

Within 1 km11 centres · 1,088 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 11
  • The Neighbourhood Group Harbourfront Child Care · 650 Queens Quay W
    36 spaces · infant, toddler · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    281 m
  • The Neighbourhood Group Waterfront Child Care Centre · 635 Queens Quay W
    122 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    357 m
  • City Kids Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 34 Bathurst St
    72 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    386 m
  • The Neighbourhood Group Canoe Landing Before and After Program · 20 Brunel Crt
    396 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    499 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 334 (936 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (2.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 936 m away.

FireFire Station 334 · 936 m339 Queens Quay W
Police52 Division · 2 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 36 · 936 m339 Queens Quay 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

Within a kilometre there are 19 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,436 rental units — seven social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 146 Fort York Blvd (171 m, 25 units, 7 storeys, built 2000), which scored 90 out of 100 at its September 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 95, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 65 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 31 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings19 · 4,436 units · 7 social housing
RentSafeTO score95 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202665 across the 19
Open fire-code violations31
Tallest46 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
146 Fort York BlvdToronto Community Housing · Greenwin257200090 · Sep 20240171 m
125 Queens Wharf RdToronto Community Housing · Greenwin737199093 · Aug 20262221 m
150 Dan Leckie WayToronto Community Housing · Greenwin29841201293 · Aug 20262230 m
25 Bishop Tutu BlvdToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation11910198788 · Aug 20260256 m
679 Queens Quay WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1066198894 · Aug 20260382 m
39 Niagara St · Minto Properties50119201999 · Jul 202510441 m
50 Portland St · Morguard23210200596 · Aug 20260599 m
450 Front St W · Rhapsody Property Management Services592462023100 · Jul 20252637 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 lots482 lots · ≈21,490 spaces · 64.5 ha
Within 500 m30 lots · ≈1,280 spaces
Green P (public)20 car parks · about 2,472 spaces
EV charging (City)10 Portland St · 1 km · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parking103 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 48 bikes within 600 m · Indoor bike station, 25 York St (1.6 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
545 Lake Shore Boulevard West · Surface213 m110 *
2 Portland St · Garage412 m3797% (Q1 2026)
250 Fort York Blvd. · Surface509 m49 *
800 Fleet Street · Surface774 m94 *
300 Remembrance Drive · Surface877 m65 *

Nearest lots: 79 m away, ≈25 spaces; 133 m away, ≈25 spaces; 134 m away, ≈32 spaces; 173 m away, ≈36 spaces; 182 m away, ≈15 spaces; 219 m away, ≈43 spaces. More EV charging: 10 Palmerston Ave (1.2 km, 2 ports); 10 Soho St. (1.4 km, 4 ports); 40 York St (1.6 km, 12 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, Feb 24, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the south: 3,675 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 61% of the total, against 424 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the south (46 of 83). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 989 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 20% above the afternoon peak from 5:00 p.m. (822). Heavy vehicles made up 3.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north1,947southbound · 30 bikes · 2.9% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles6,0461,016 pedestrians · 83 cyclists · 3.8% heavy
From the east424westbound · 7 bikes · 2.8% heavy
From the south3,675northbound · 46 bikes · 4.5% heavy
AM peak hour989 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour822 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 24, 2022

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 Bathurst St between Queens Quay W and Lake Shore Blvd W, 240 m from the corner, a 3-day count in June 2013 put the average speed at 32 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 42 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 45 km/h or more. That segment carries about 5,800 vehicles a day. The reading is 13 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Bathurst St · Queens Quay W – Lake Shore Blvd W · 240 mJun 2013 · 3 days5,79832 km/h42 km/h45 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

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no collisions of any severity. 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 St & Gardiner Expy?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Feb 24, 2022, 65% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Bathurst St between Queens Quay W and Lake Shore Blvd W (June 2013), found an average of 32 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy?

The nearest Green P car park is 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West (213 m away, 110 spaces). The City's mapping shows 482 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,490 spaces — 30 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Portland St (1.0 km).

How do I get to Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy by transit?

Streetcar routes 511, 509, 510, 504 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 77 m away; bus routes 29, 63 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bathurst St at Fort York Blvd, 823 m).

What restaurants are near Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy?

22 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 361 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Wingsup! (47 m), Gong Cha (84 m), McDonald's (88 m), Tim Hortons (91 m) and Tim Hortons (91 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 St & Gardiner Expy?

The nearest is Little Norway Park Washroom, 659 Queens Quay W, 466 m away (open 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Canoe Landing Community Recreation Centre Washroom (481 m); Coronation Park Toronto Washroom (552 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 St & Gardiner Expy?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,088 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Neighbourhood Group Harbourfront Child Care (281 m, 36 spaces), The Neighbourhood Group Waterfront Child Care Centre (357 m, 122 spaces) and City Kids Early Learning & Child Care Centre (386 m, 72 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy?

19 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,436 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 146 Fort York Blvd (171 m, 25 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 125 Queens Wharf Rd (221 m, 73 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 150 Dan Leckie Way (230 m, 298 units, RentSafeTO score 93) and 25 Bishop Tutu Blvd (256 m, 119 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 19 is 95 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 St & Gardiner Expy in?

Bathurst St & Gardiner Expy is in Harbourfront-CityPlace (City of Toronto neighbourhood 165). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik. The corner falls inside the CityPlace and Fort York Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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