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Bloor & Poplar

Bloor St W & Poplar Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Islington · Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore

In Islington, Bloor & Poplar is an above-average intersection for traffic. Nearby is Kipling Station (Line 2) 618 m away and Kipling GO 618 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
14,389
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 6, 2015
100 pedestrians · 51 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 3 property damage · #4972 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
2
TTC stops within 100 m
Kipling Station 618 m · 10 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 1,800 vehicles, 1.56× the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 144 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 0.5 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Bloor & Poplar

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Kipling Station (Line 2)618 m
GO Transit
Kipling GO — Milton618 m; GO bus 29 Guelph / Mississauga at Kipling Bus Terminal600 m
TTC bus
4911111212345461451494044 nearest 46 m
Express
945900944927
Blue Night
300345
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Bloor St West at Acorn Ave
Regional
MiWay 1 Dundas3 Bloor11 Westwood20 Rathburn26 Burnhamthorpe35 Eglinton70 Keaton71 Sheridan101 Dundas Express108 Financial Express109 Meadowvale Express126 Burnhamthorpe Express at Bloor St at Acorn Ave58 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Bloor St W / Dundas St W (2) 896 m · 15 docks · 1 station, 15 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)
  • Mindwerx4kids Learning Centre SchoolPrivate · 406 m
  • Kingsley Primary SchoolPrivate · 526 m
  • Wedgewood Jr SchoolEnglish Public · 643 m
  • Our Lady of Peace Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 710 m
  • Academy of Math and EnglishPrivate · 1 km
  • Etobicoke Secondary Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • and 5 more
Community centres
  • Islington Seniors' Centre1.3 km
Parks (13)
  • Greenfield Park264 m
  • Six Points Park535 m
  • Wedgewood Park - Etobicoke621 m
  • Smithwood Park663 m
  • Cloverdale Park726 m
  • Silverhill Park1 km
  • and 7 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Eatonville branch1.5 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 5 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store; within a kilometre the count is 51. The nearest is Milano's Pizza, 50 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés5 within 300 m · 51 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Milano's Pizza · 3886 Bloor St W50 mPassed, Aug 2026
Dairy Jug · 3884 Bloor St W60 mPassed, Apr 2026
The Steak Master · 3882 Bloor St W61 mPassed, Aug 2026
Vatra Cheese & Deli · 3878 Bloor St Wgrocery71 mPassed, Aug 2026
Stari Grad · 3862 Bloor St W273 mPassed, Aug 2026
Haroo Korean Restaurant · 3858 Bloor St W287 mPassed, Aug 2026
Greek Freak · 3836 Bloor St W331 mPassed, Aug 2026
Kanu · 3832a Bloor St W347 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 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 Wedgewood Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 629 m away — currently listed as closed (closed for the season); in season it is View outdoor rink hours. A drinking fountain is 552 m away at Six Points Park.

  • Wedgewood Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 15 Swan Ave
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    629 m
Drinking water
Six Points Park bottle filling station · 552 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

Four licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 417 spaces; three accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Beamish Academy (469 m, 42 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km4 centres · 417 spaces
Fee subsidy3 of 4
  • Beamish Academy · 3819 Bloor St W
    42 spaces · toddler, preschool
    469 m
  • Wedgewood School Age YMCA · 5 Swan Ave
    129 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    643 m
  • Our Lady of Peace School Age Program (YMCA) · 70 Mattice Ave
    127 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    711 m
  • Growing Tykes Learning Centre (5150 Dundas Street West) · 5150 Dundas St W
    119 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    785 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 445 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 22 Division (1.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 2.0 km away.

FireFire Station 445 · 1 km280 Burnhamthorpe Rd
Police22 Division · 1.1 km3699 Bloor Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 39 · 2 km155 the East Mall

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 five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,112 rental units. The nearest is 5294 Dundas St W (406 m, 45 units, 7 storeys, built 1960), which scored 92 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 98, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 17 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 16 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings5 · 1,112 units
RentSafeTO score98 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202617 across the 5
Open fire-code violations16
Tallest41 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
5294 Dundas St W · Six Points Suites Inc457196092 · Jun 20250406 m
5249 Dundas St W · Centurion Property Associates Inc.333412021100 · Jul 20245462 m
20 Samuel Wood Way · Concert Real Estate Corporation233212023100 · Aug 20264611 m
3 Summerland Ter283262012100 · Oct 20255 · 6 fire881 m
7 Summerland Ter218212011100 · Jul 20243 · 10 fire926 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 lots473 lots · ≈73,190 spaces · 219.6 ha
Within 500 m38 lots · ≈1,980 spaces
Green P (public)6 car parks · about 2,371 spaces
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
Kipling South Lot - 400 Munster Avenue · Surface788 m1,200 *
16 Royalavon Cres · Surface1 km5938% (Q1 2026)
22 Fieldway Rd · Surface1.2 km270 *
Islington Main Lot - 3330 Bloor Street West · Surface1.4 km534 *
7 Monkton Ave · Surface1.7 km2561% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 43 m away, ≈8 spaces; 47 m away, ≈15 spaces; 62 m away, ≈25 spaces; 78 m away, ≈39 spaces; 81 m away, ≈42 spaces; 84 m away, ≈49 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, Oct 6, 2015

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 8,588 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 60% of the total, against 251 from the south. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 2,720 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 2,633 from 4:45 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 11 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2015, 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 north651southbound · 4 bikes · 2.3% heavy
From the west8,588eastbound · 25 bikes · 2.0% heavy
Total vehicles14,389100 pedestrians · 51 cyclists · 2.4% heavy
From the east4,899westbound · 22 bikes · 3.3% heavy
From the south251northbound · 0 bikes · 1.2% heavy
AM peak hour2,720 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour2,633 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 6, 2015

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 Bloor St W between Poplar Ave and Wilmar Rd, 84 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in November 2003 put the average speed at 48 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 56 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 62 km/h or more. That segment carries about 19,700 vehicles a day. The reading is 23 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 5 speed humps slow traffic on Poplar Avenue between Dundas St W and Bloor St W.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Bloor St W · Poplar Ave – Wilmar Rd · 84 mNov 2003 · 24 h19,71448 km/h56 km/h62 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Poplar Avenue · Dundas St W – Bloor St W
    5 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 2018, with 2 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 40% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Apr 30, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#4972 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only3
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 20145latest Apr 30, 2024

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 one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200street/outdoor (1), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft100other (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 23, 2021. 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 Islington.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Bloor & Poplar a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 5 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 & Poplar?

An above-average intersection for traffic. Its latest count is from Oct 6, 2015, 1.56× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Bloor & Poplar?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Bloor St W between Poplar Ave and Wilmar Rd (November 2003), found an average of 48 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 56 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Bloor & Poplar?

The nearest Green P car park is Kipling South Lot - 400 Munster Avenue (788 m away, 1,200 spaces). The City's mapping shows 473 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 73,190 spaces — 38 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Bloor & Poplar by transit?

Kipling Station (Line 2) is 618 m away; Kipling GO is 618 m away; bus routes 49, 111, 112, 123, 45, 46, 145, 149 and 6 more within 1 km (nearest stop: Bloor St West at Acorn Ave, 46 m); MiWay routes 1 Dundas, 3 Bloor, 11 Westwood, 20 Rathburn at Bloor St at Acorn Ave.

What restaurants are near Bloor & Poplar?

5 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 51 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Milano's Pizza (50 m), Dairy Jug (60 m), The Steak Master (61 m), Stari Grad (273 m) and Haroo Korean Restaurant (287 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 & Poplar?

The nearest is Wedgewood Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 15 Swan Ave, 629 m away (View outdoor rink hours). The City currently lists it as closed: closed for the season. 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 & Poplar?

Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 417 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Beamish Academy (469 m, 42 spaces), Wedgewood School Age YMCA (643 m, 129 spaces) and Our Lady of Peace School Age Program (YMCA) (711 m, 127 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bloor & Poplar?

Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,112 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 5294 Dundas St W (406 m, 45 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 5249 Dundas St W (462 m, 333 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 20 Samuel Wood Way (611 m, 233 units, RentSafeTO score 100) and 3 Summerland Ter (881 m, 283 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 98 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 & Poplar?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft 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 Islington page.

What neighbourhood is Bloor & Poplar in?

Bloor & Poplar is in Islington (City of Toronto neighbourhood 158). It is in Ward 3, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, represented by Councillor Amber Morley.

Sources

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