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Bloor & Crawford

Bloor St W & Crawford St · Toronto, Ontario · Palmerston-Little Italy · Ward 11, University-Rosedale · Bloorcourt Village BIA

Bloor & Crawford is an intersection of typical volume, with significant cycling traffic. It sits in Palmerston-Little Italy, in central Toronto. At the corner: a protected bikeway, a school within 250 m and parks. Nearby: Christie Station (Line 2) 290 m away.

Traffic volume
7,461
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 15, 2021
2,008 pedestrians · 2,420 cyclists
Collisions
76
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
7 with an injury · 47 property damage · #1445 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
Christie Station 290 m · 2 streetcar routes · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track
Bike Share: 34 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 930 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 81% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 4 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 32.4% of vehicle volume, about 42× the typical share. That comes with about 7.6 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions rose 24%, from 34 in 2016–2020 to 42 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Bloor & 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)290 m; Ossington Station (Line 2)328 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)848 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)1 km
Streetcar
506511 nearest 878 m
TTC bus
6316112694267 nearest 293 m
Blue Night
306300363307
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Bloor St West at Montrose Ave; Bloor St West at Shaw St
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2016
Bike Share
Bloor St W / Shaw St - SMART 93 m · 34 docks · 27 stations, 486 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 (34)
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 183 m
  • St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 361 m
  • Montrose Jr & Delta Alternative SrEnglish Public · 524 m
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 534 m
  • Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 591 m
  • Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 607 m
  • and 28 more
Parks (34)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch688 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch864 m
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 907 m

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 46 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 5 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 299 — 4.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Overpressure Club, 20 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2025 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés46 within 300 m · 299 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience5 within 300 m · 50 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Overpressure Club · 815 Bloor St W20 mPassed, Apr 2025 · 1 infraction
Banjara Indian Cuisine · 796 Bloor St W22 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Madras Masala · 796 Bloor St W22 mPassed, Jun 2026
Chantecler · 798 Bloor St W24 mPassed, Aug 2026
Hello Coffee · 800 Bloor St W28 mPassed, Aug 2026
One Cup · 821 Bloor St W A43 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Banjara Indian Cuisine- Mobile Truck · 796 Bloor St W 243 mPassed, Jun 2026
Fresh Habesha and BBQ Restaurant · 810 Bloor St W45 mPassed, Jun 2026

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 Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 147 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 132 m away at Irene Avenue Parkette.

  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    147 m
  • Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · 779 Crawford St
    View outdoor pool hours
    239 m
  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    252 m
Drinking water
Irene Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 132 m; Christie Pits Park drinking fountain · 213 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

13 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,332 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (315 m, 39 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km13 centres · 1,332 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 13
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 720 Ossington Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    315 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 756 Ossington Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    335 m
  • Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie · 703 Bloor St W
    56 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    365 m
  • Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. · 301 Montrose Ave
    117 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    524 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (1.4 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.3 km) and the nearest ambulance station 644 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 1.4 km1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 1.3 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 644 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 30 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,843 rental units — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 805 Bloor St W (48 m, 24 units, 4 storeys, built 1989), which scored 86 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 30 scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 42 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 8 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings30 · 1,843 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score85 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202642 across the 30
Open fire-code violations8
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
805 Bloor St Wsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes244198986 · Sep 20250 · 1 fire48 m
496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc243193085 · Jul 2025081 m
723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate1641920100 · Jul 20260312 m
711 Bloor St W123192023 · Jul 20260351 m
336 Clinton St173199295 · Oct 20250375 m
318 Clinton St123197076 · Oct 20250408 m
177 Pendrith StToronto Community Housing · TCH543196485 · Aug 20250423 m
333 Harbord St · 1569625 Ontario Limited103191389 · Jun 20260445 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 lots808 lots · ≈20,420 spaces · 61.3 ha
Within 500 m48 lots · ≈760 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 1,049 spaces
EV charging (City)705 Shaw St · 182 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking74 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 36 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
745 Ossington Ave · Surface291 m4667% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface405 m3468% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface529 m4981% (Q1 2026)
557 Palmerston Ave · Surface727 m5580% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface797 m3374% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 24 m away, ≈18 spaces; 36 m away, ≈2 spaces; 43 m away, ≈4 spaces; 50 m away, ≈17 spaces; 60 m away, ≈10 spaces; 63 m away, ≈29 spaces. More EV charging: 685 Dovercourt Rd (644 m, 2 ports); 273 Christie St (891 m, 2 ports); 74 Clinton Street (1 km, 4 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, Sep 15, 2021

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 4,116 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 55% of the total, against 490 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the west (1,345 of 2,420). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,006 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,060 from 4:00 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 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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 · 23 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west4,116eastbound · 1,345 bikes · 3.1% heavy
Total vehicles7,4612,008 pedestrians · 2,420 cyclists · 3.3% heavy
From the east2,855westbound · 995 bikes · 3.9% heavy
From the south490northbound · 57 bikes · 2.2% heavy
AM peak hour1,006 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,060 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Sep 15, 2021

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, 307 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. The reading is 7 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 4 speed humps slow traffic on Crawford Street between Harbord St and Bloor St W.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Bloor St W · Carling Ave – Ossington Ave · 259 mSep 2019 · 7 days7,798
Crawford St · Christie Pits Park Trl – Barton Ave · 307 mNov 2019 · 2 days1,11332 km/h40 km/h44 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Crawford Street · Harbord St – Bloor St W
    4 speed humps

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 2023, with 13 collisions; 2025 recorded 7. 7 collisions (9%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 24 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 32% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 5 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (7%), 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 May 11, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions76#1445 of 5,508
With an injury7#2186 of 4,660
Property damage only47
Fail to remain24
Involving a pedestrian1#2243 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist4#548 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified22
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201491latest May 11, 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.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Seven thefts from vehicles and nine bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.7× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.6 a year. 86% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 44% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Jun 12, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle710street/outdoor (6), apartment parking (1)
Bicycle theft941street/outdoor (4), other (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 12, 2026. 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 Palmerston-Little Italy.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Bloor & Crawford a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 76 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 Bloor & Crawford?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Sep 15, 2021, 81% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Bloor & 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.

Where can I park near Bloor & Crawford?

The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (291 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 808 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 20,420 spaces — 48 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 705 Shaw St (182 m).

How do I get to Bloor & Crawford by transit?

Christie Station (Line 2) is 290 m away; streetcar routes 506, 511 stop within 1 km, the nearest 878 m away; bus routes 63, 161, 126, 94, 26, 7 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bloor St West at Montrose Ave, 293 m).

What restaurants are near Bloor & Crawford?

46 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 299 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Overpressure Club (20 m), Banjara Indian Cuisine (22 m), Madras Masala (22 m), Chantecler (24 m) and Hello Coffee (28 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 Bloor & Crawford?

The nearest is Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 485 Montrose Ave, 147 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (239 m); Christie Pits Park Washroom (252 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 Bloor & Crawford?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,332 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (315 m, 39 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (335 m, 49 spaces) and Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie (365 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bloor & Crawford?

30 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,843 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 805 Bloor St W (48 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 496 Montrose Ave (81 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 723 Bloor St W (312 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 100) and 711 Bloor St W (351 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 23). The average RentSafeTO score across the 30 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 Bloor & Crawford?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and nine bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. 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 Palmerston-Little Italy page.

What neighbourhood is Bloor & Crawford in?

Bloor & Crawford is in Palmerston-Little Italy (City of Toronto neighbourhood 080). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe. The corner falls inside the Bloorcourt Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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