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Bloor & Delaware (East)

Bloor St W & Delaware Ave (East) · Toronto, Ontario · Palmerston-Little Italy · Ward 9, Davenport · Bloorcourt Village BIA

Bloor & Delaware (East), in Palmerston-Little Italy, in central Toronto, is an intersection of typical volume, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has Ossington Station, a protected bikeway and a park at the corner.

Traffic
12,934
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jan 7, 2025
5,933 pedestrians · 1,329 cyclists
Collisions
58
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured · #1839 of 5,519
Getting there
Ossington Station
subway station within 250 m
15 routes within 1 km · protected bikeway
Within a walk
78/100
city median 48 · #403 of 5,672
55 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 84 m

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Bloor & Delaware (East)

Traffic and safety

The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets

Traffic volume14-hour count · Jan 7, 2025

The west leg carries the load — 6,882 eastbound vehicles, or 53% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 4. Most cyclists arrived from the west (685 of 1,329). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,036 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 1,096 from 2:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. The count is 22 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north4southbound · 19 bikes · 25.0% heavy
From the west6,882eastbound · 685 bikes · 2.6% heavy
Total vehicles12,9345,933 pedestrians · 1,329 cyclists · 3.0% heavy
From the east5,751westbound · 589 bikes · 3.5% heavy
From the south297northbound · 36 bikes · 3.4% heavy

Peak hours: 1,036 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m. and 1,096 from 2:45 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).

Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 8 collisions. 17% of collisions here involved an injury, in line with the 15% citywide. 10 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 17% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 17% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Sep 11, 2026.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions58#1839 of 5,519
With an injury10#1677 of 4,669
Property damage only42
Fail to remain10
Involving a pedestrian2#1582 of 3,196
Involving a cyclist8#186 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
Severity not classified6
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.

Speeds here, last measured in 2022

The City's counter on Bloor St W between Westmoreland Ave and Rusholme Rd (231 m away) recorded an average of 33 km/h in its 7-day count in June 2022; 85% of drivers were at or under 43 km/h. That segment carries about 11,000 vehicles a day. The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Delaware Ave between Lane N of Bloor and E of Delaware and Northumberland St measured slower: 20 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 29 km/h (Nov 2019).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Delaware Ave · Lane N of Bloor and E of Delaware – Northumberland St · 83 mNov 2019 · 2 days94720 km/h29 km/h33 km/h
Bloor St W · Westmoreland Ave – Rusholme Rd · 231 mJun 2022 · 7 days10,98933 km/h43 km/h49 km/h

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.

Getting there

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park

Transit and cycling

Subway
Ossington Station (Line 2)79 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)543 m · 6 min; Christie Station (Line 2)820 m · 10 min
Streetcar
506 nearest 1 km · 12 min
TTC bus
161 63 94 402 29 126 nearest 109 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306 300 363 329
Nearest stops
13 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2020
Bike Share
Concord Ave / Bloor St W 118 m · 15 docks · 15 stations, 259 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Parking within 2 km

Green P
16 car parks · about 746 spaces
EV charging
685 Dovercourt Rd · 291 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 705 Shaw St (549 m), 283 Ossington Ave (1.5 km)
Bike parking
127 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 48 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
42 mapped lots within 500 m, 438 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
745 Ossington Ave · Surface255 m4667% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface351 m3374% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface458 m3763% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface1 km3468% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface1.1 km4963% (Q1 2026)

Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.

Within a walk

What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.

Food, shops and services

You can do a shop on foot from here: Strictly Bulk is 84 m away, one of four grocery stores within 300 m. For everything else there are four convenience stores and gas bars within 300 m. There are 55 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 170 eating places within a kilometre — 4.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Ambassador Pizza Co., 5 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Bloor Court Pharmacy, 42 m away, one of two within 300 m. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. For seniors' housing: The O'neill Centre, a long-term care home 897 m away; New Horizons Tower, a retirement home 664 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Ambassador Pizza Co. · 946 Bloor St W5 m
  • Laziza Mediterranean Cuisine · 950 Bloor St W39 m
  • Hurricanes Roadhouse Restaurant · 963 Bloor St W53 m
  • Sistering · 962 Bloor St W64 m
  • Teddy Beer · 928 Bloor St W68 m
55 within 300 m · 170 within 1 km
Grocery
Strictly Bulk 84 m · 4 within 300 m
Food shops
Vince Gasparro's Meat Market 325 m · 4 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Convenience
4 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Bloor Court Pharmacy 42 m · 9 within 1 km
Child care
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 39 spaces, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day229 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day287 m · 3 min
  • Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre · 106 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day297 m · 4 min
8 licensed centres · 620 spaces within 1 km · 6 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed685 m · 8 min
  • Dovercourt Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.751 m · 9 min
Drinking water: Salem Parkette 267 m · 3 min; Northumberland Playground 298 m · 4 min
Health and care
  • The O'neill Centre · long-term care home897 m · 11 min
  • New Horizons Tower · retirement home664 m · 8 min

Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.

Parks, schools and places

Parks (19)
and 14 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (18)
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 750 m · 9 min
  • St Mary Catholic Academy Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 774 m · 9 min
  • St Anthony Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 839 m · 10 min
  • Dewson Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 845 m · 10 min
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 857 m · 10 min
and 13 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch536 m · 6 min
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch1.2 km · 15 min

Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.

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Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #403 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food30/30

    4 grocery stores within 300 m · 55 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit28/28

    Ossington Station · 13 stops within 300 m · 15 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go5/14

    library 536 m away

  • Parks and recreation10/10

    4 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care5/8

    nearest school 0.8 km · 3 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

17 registered apartment buildings with 1,222 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, three of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 220 Delaware Ave (86 m, 16 units, 4 storeys, built 1930), which scored 79 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 17 scored below 70; the average is 81, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 202586 m
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 2025205 m
1019 Bloor St W · Donros Developments Limited263192863 · Jul 2026251 m · 3 min
730 Dovercourt Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management35620196797 · Jul 2025306 m · 4 min
357 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management26716196995 · Jul 2026309 m · 4 min
675 Dovercourt Rd113194045 · Jul 2026362 m · 4 min

17 registered buildings · 1,222 units · 3 social housing · tallest 20 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.

Thefts reported at this corner

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

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and 17 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 3.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 4 in 2023–2025, about 1.3 a year, against 2.1 a year before that. 41% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft1740street/outdoor (7), transit property (5)

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 & Delaware (East) a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 58 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 & Delaware (East)?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Jan 7, 2025, 80% of the median for a counted intersection, and #356 for pedestrians.

Is Bloor & Delaware (East) a walkable intersection?

Bloor & Delaware (East) scores 78 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #403 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 4 grocery stores within 300 m · 55 places to eat within 300 m; Ossington Station · 13 stops within 300 m · 15 routes within 1 km; 4 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m.

How fast do cars go at Bloor & Delaware (East)?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Bloor St W between Westmoreland Ave and Rusholme Rd (June 2022), found an average of 33 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Bloor & Delaware (East)?

The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (255 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 438 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,880 spaces — 42 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (291 m).

How do I get to Bloor & Delaware (East) by transit?

Ossington Station (Line 2) is 79 m away; streetcar route 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 1.0 km away; bus routes 161, 63, 94, 402, 29, 126, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Bloor & Delaware (East)?

55 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 170 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Ambassador Pizza Co. (5 m), Laziza Mediterranean Cuisine (39 m), Hurricanes Roadhouse Restaurant (53 m), Sistering (64 m) and Teddy Beer (68 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Bloor & Delaware (East)?

The nearest is Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 485 Montrose Ave, 685 m away. Next nearest: Dovercourt Park Washroom (751 m); Christie Pits Park Washroom (801 m).

Is there child care near Bloor & Delaware (East)?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 620 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (229 m, 39 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (287 m, 49 spaces) and Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre (297 m, 106 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bloor & Delaware (East)?

17 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,222 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 220 Delaware Ave (86 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79), 767 Dovercourt Rd (205 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 1019 Bloor St W (251 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 63) and 730 Dovercourt Rd (306 m, 356 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 17 is 81 out of 100; 3 scored below 70.

How many thefts are reported at Bloor & Delaware (East)?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and 17 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Palmerston-Little Italy page.

What neighbourhood is Bloor & Delaware (East) in?

Bloor & Delaware (East) is in Palmerston-Little Italy (City of Toronto neighbourhood 080). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo. 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