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Bloor & Elsfield

Bloor St W & Elsfield Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Stonegate-Queensway · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore · The Kingsway BIA

Bloor & Elsfield is a moderately travelled crossing. It sits in Stonegate-Queensway. At the corner: Royal York Station and a protected bikeway. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
15,812
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 23, 2024
4,408 pedestrians · 596 cyclists · #1233 busiest
Collisions
15
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 9 property damage · #3769 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
Royal York Station
subway station within 250 m
6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track
Bike Share: 54 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 1,130 vehicles, about the citywide median. 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 3.8% of vehicle volume, about 4.9× the typical share. That comes with about 1.5 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 1.0 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Bloor & Elsfield

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Royal York Station (Line 2)87 m
TTC bus
4814973157666 nearest 158 m
Blue Night
300315373
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2023
Bike Share
9 Willingdon Blvd 89 m · 39 docks · 5 stations, 119 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 (7)
  • The Learning CommonPrivate · 569 m
  • Sunnylea Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 629 m
  • Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 789 m
  • Etobicoke Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • Lambton Kingsway Jr Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • St Marguerite D'youville Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 1.3 km
  • and 1 more
Community centres
Parks (20)
  • Birchview Boulevard Parkette495 m
  • Jackson Parkette608 m
  • Spring Garden Park796 m
  • Kingsway Gate Parkette796 m
  • Sunnylea Park926 m
  • Tom Riley Park1 km
  • and 14 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Brentwood branch404 m
Places of interest
  • Montgomery's InnMuseum · 1.4 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 28 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 46. The nearest is Magic Spot Grill, 29 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés28 within 300 m · 46 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience4 within 300 m · 6 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Magic Spot Grill · 2973 Bloor St W29 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Hot Oven Bakery · 2974 Bloor St Wgrocery30 mPassed, Jun 2026
Sushi 2 GO · 2976 Bloor St W33 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Whitehouse Meats · 2978 Bloor St Wgrocery37 mPassed, Jun 2026
Casa Barcelona · 2980 Bloor St W44 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Momiji Japanese Grill · 2955 Bloor St W54 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Swiss Chalet · 2955 Bloor St W54 mPassed, Apr 2026
Cafe de Flore · 2989 Bloor St W57 mPassed, Aug 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 Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom, 842 m away, View centre hours.

  • Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom · 44 Montgomery Rd
    View centre hours
    842 m
  • Central Arena Washroom · 50 Montgomery Rd
    View arena hours
    866 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 594 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Prince Edward Montessori School of Toronto (359 m, 32 spaces, preschool).

Within 1 km7 centres · 594 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 7
  • Prince Edward Montessori School of Toronto · 2850 Bloor St W
    32 spaces · preschool
    359 m
  • Royal York Road School · 851 Royal York Rd
    47 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    569 m
  • Kingsway Nursery School · 85 the Kingsway
    31 spaces · toddler, preschool
    573 m
  • Treasured Moments - Bloor · 3107 Bloor St W
    78 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    584 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 431 (382 m), the nearest police station 22 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.4 km away.

FireFire Station 431 · 382 m308 Prince Edward Dr S
Police22 Division · 1.7 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 31 · 1.4 km4219 Dundas St 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 eight RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 205 rental units. The nearest is 2846 Bloor St W (441 m, 16 units, 4 storeys, built 1955), which scored 95 out of 100 at its December 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 93, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. No Landlord and Tenant Board order named any of them in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings8 · 205 units
RentSafeTO score93 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20260 across the 8
Open fire-code violations6
Tallest6 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2846 Bloor St W164195595 · Dec 20250441 m
2844 Bloor St W163195588 · Jul 20240463 m
69 Old Mill Ter · Dash Property Management264195596 · Oct 20250 · 6 fire867 m
2696 Bloor St W153195783 · Nov 20250897 m
810 Royal York Rd606196098 · Nov 20250923 m
2692-2694 Bloor St W · Orchard Apartments (Bloor) Inc404194994 · Jul 202601 km
2675 Bloor St W · Syrmium Holdings Inc143196097 · Oct 202501 km
2690 Bloor St W · Orchard Apartments (Bloor) Inc184194995 · Oct 202501 km

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 lots436 lots · ≈26,310 spaces · 78.9 ha
Within 500 m72 lots · ≈1,020 spaces
Green P (public)14 car parks · about 1,750 spaces
EV charging (City)8 Kings Lynn Rd · 404 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking41 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
7 Jackson Ave · Surface55 m4038% (Q1 2026)
9 Willingdon Blvd · Surface91 m11623% (Q1 2026)
12 Willingdon Blvd · Surface132 m6457% (Q1 2026)
11 Grenview Blvd N · Surface145 m8341% (Q1 2026)
934 Royal York Rd · Surface210 m1164% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 27 m away, ≈5 spaces; 30 m away, ≈3 spaces; 36 m away, ≈3 spaces; 36 m away, ≈3 spaces (Green P); 40 m away, ≈3 spaces (Green P); 40 m away, ≈3 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 — 14-hour, Oct 23, 2024

This is a three-leg intersection with no north leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 8,079 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 219 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the west (308 of 596). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,254 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 1,310 from 6:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 23 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north0southbound · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west8,079eastbound · 308 bikes · 2.2% heavy
Total vehicles15,8124,408 pedestrians · 596 cyclists · 2.4% heavy
From the east7,514westbound · 279 bikes · 2.6% heavy
From the south219northbound · 8 bikes · 1.4% heavy
AM peak hour1,254 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour1,310 vehicles from 6:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Oct 23, 2024

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 Elsfield Rd between Lane S of Bloor and E of Elsfield and Meadowvale Dr, 126 m from the corner, a 3-day count in March 2025 put the average speed at 32 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 40 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 45 km/h or more. That segment carries about 400 vehicles a day. Bloor St W between Cliveden Ave and Brentwood Rd S measured slower: 30 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 39 km/h (Apr 2026).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Elsfield Rd · Lane S of Bloor and E of Elsfield – Meadowvale Dr · 126 mMar 2025 · 3 days40432 km/h40 km/h45 km/h
Bloor St W · Cliveden Ave – Brentwood Rd S · 325 mApr 2026 · 3 days17,88630 km/h39 km/h44 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

The worst year was 2017, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 1 collision (7%) involved an injury. 5 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (13%). The most recent report on file is from Nov 8, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 1.0 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions15#3769 of 5,508
With an injury1#4112 of 4,660
Property damage only9
Fail to remain5
Involving a pedestrian1#2246 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist1#1620 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified5
All since 201416latest Nov 8, 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

Two thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle210other (1), commercial premises (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 1, 2024. 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 Stonegate-Queensway.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Bloor & Elsfield a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 15 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 & Elsfield?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1233 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, about the median for a counted intersection, and #443 for pedestrians.

How fast do cars go at Bloor & Elsfield?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Elsfield Rd between Lane S of Bloor and E of Elsfield and Meadowvale Dr (March 2025), 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 & Elsfield?

The nearest Green P car park is 7 Jackson Ave (55 m away, 40 spaces, 38% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 436 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 26,310 spaces — 72 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 8 Kings Lynn Rd (404 m).

How do I get to Bloor & Elsfield by transit?

Royal York Station (Line 2) is 87 m away; bus routes 48, 149, 73, 15, 76, 66 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Bloor & Elsfield?

28 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 46 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Magic Spot Grill (29 m), Sushi 2 GO (33 m), Casa Barcelona (44 m), Momiji Japanese Grill (54 m) and Swiss Chalet (54 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 & Elsfield?

The nearest is Memorial Pool and Health Club Washroom, 44 Montgomery Rd, 842 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Central Arena Washroom (866 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 & Elsfield?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 594 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Prince Edward Montessori School of Toronto (359 m, 32 spaces), Royal York Road School (569 m, 47 spaces) and Kingsway Nursery School (573 m, 31 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bloor & Elsfield?

Eight RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 205 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2846 Bloor St W (441 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 95), 2844 Bloor St W (463 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 69 Old Mill Ter (867 m, 26 units, RentSafeTO score 96) and 2696 Bloor St W (897 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 8 is 93 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.

How many thefts are reported at Bloor & Elsfield?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no 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 Stonegate-Queensway page.

What neighbourhood is Bloor & Elsfield in?

Bloor & Elsfield is in Stonegate-Queensway (City of Toronto neighbourhood 016). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley. The corner falls inside the The Kingsway Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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