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Bloor & Roxton

Bloor St W & Roxton Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Dovercourt Village · Ward 11, University-Rosedale · Bloorcourt Village BIA

In Dovercourt Village, in central Toronto, Bloor & Roxton is a moderately travelled crossing, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: Ossington Station, a protected bikeway and parks.

Traffic volume
7,423
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 15, 2021
2,880 pedestrians · 2,399 cyclists
Collisions
62
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
13 with an injury · 32 property damage · #1742 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
Ossington Station
subway station within 250 m
1 streetcar route · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track
Bike Share: 45 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 930 vehicles, 80% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 2.6 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 32.3% of vehicle volume, about 42× the typical share. That comes with about 6.2 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions edged down 6%, from 32 in 2016–2020 to 30 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Bloor & Roxton

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Ossington Station (Line 2)136 m; Christie Station (Line 2)484 m; Dufferin Station (Line 2)779 m
Streetcar
506 nearest 878 m
TTC bus
63161941262926402 nearest 97 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306300363329
Nearest stops
16 surface stops within 300 m — Bloor St West at Shaw St; Bloor St West at Ossington Ave
Cycling
Cycle Track on Bloor St W installed 2020
Bike Share
Bloor St W / Shaw St - SMART 107 m · 34 docks · 26 stations, 457 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 · 368 m
  • St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 426 m
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 514 m
  • Montrose Jr & Delta Alternative SrEnglish Public · 599 m
  • Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 623 m
  • Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 685 m
  • and 28 more
Parks (33)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch814 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch862 m
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch885 m
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.1 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 55 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 7 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 288 — 3.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Hwunet, 1 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés55 within 300 m · 288 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience7 within 300 m · 47 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Hwunet · 856 Bloor St W1 mPassed, Aug 2026
Zema Lounge & Bar · 867 Bloor St W12 mPassed, Mar 2026
Saving Gigi · 859 Bloor St W14 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 2 infractions
Eggsmart · 864 Bloor St W19 mPassed, Aug 2026
Vit Beo · 858 Bloor St W Bldg-122 mPassed, Aug 2026
Vince Gasparro's Meat Market · 857 Bloor St Wgrocery23 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 3 infractions
Electric Bill · 866 Bloor St W23 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Gg Sushi · 865 Bloor St W28 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions

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, 330 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 94 m away at Irene Avenue Parkette.

  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    330 m
  • Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · 779 Crawford St
    View outdoor pool hours
    356 m
  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    412 m
Drinking water
Irene Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 94 m; Northumberland Playground drinking fountain · 166 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

14 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,417 spaces; 11 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (122 m, 39 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km14 centres · 1,417 spaces
Fee subsidy11 of 14
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South · 720 Ossington Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    122 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North · 756 Ossington Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    151 m
  • Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre · 823 Dovercourt Rd
    106 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    440 m
  • Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie · 703 Bloor St W
    56 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    562 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 345 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.2 km) and the nearest ambulance station 448 m away.

FireFire Station 345 · 1.2 km1285 Dufferin St
Police14 Division · 1.2 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 448 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 25 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 1,421 rental units — three social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 805 Bloor St W (240 m, 24 units, 4 storeys, built 1989), which scored 86 out of 100 at its September 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 25 scored below 70; the average is 83, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 39 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings25 · 1,421 units · 3 social housing
RentSafeTO score83 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202639 across the 25
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
805 Bloor St Wsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes244198986 · Sep 20250 · 1 fire240 m
496 Montrose Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Management Inc243193085 · Jul 20250277 m
220 Delaware Ave · Imtradex Corp164193079 · Jul 20250334 m
177 Pendrith StToronto Community Housing · TCH543196485 · Aug 20250379 m
767 Dovercourt Rd · Jdc Property Management Inc.193200894 · Jul 20250397 m
675 Dovercourt Rd113194045 · Jul 20260462 m
730 Dovercourt Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management35620196797 · Jul 202514484 m
723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate1641920100 · Jul 20260509 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 lots775 lots · ≈22,080 spaces · 66.2 ha
Within 500 m44 lots · ≈720 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 1,049 spaces
EV charging (City)705 Shaw St · 178 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking104 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 33 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
745 Ossington Ave · Surface102 m4667% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface600 m3374% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface600 m3468% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface709 m3763% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface726 m4981% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 61 m away, ≈3 spaces; 62 m away, ≈15 spaces; 69 m away, ≈19 spaces; 73 m away, ≈22 spaces (Green P); 84 m away, ≈3 spaces; 95 m away, ≈4 spaces. More EV charging: 685 Dovercourt Rd (457 m, 2 ports); 273 Christie St (1 km, 2 ports); 74 Clinton Street (1.1 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

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 4,190 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 56% of the total, against 3,233 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the west (1,341 of 2,399). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,078 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,028 from 4:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.1% 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 · 13 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west4,190eastbound · 1,341 bikes · 2.8% heavy
Total vehicles7,4232,880 pedestrians · 2,399 cyclists · 3.1% heavy
From the east3,233westbound · 1,014 bikes · 3.5% heavy
From the south0northbound · 31 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour1,078 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,028 vehicles from 4:45 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 Roxton Rd between Lane S of Bloor and W of Shaw and Bloor St W, 23 m from the corner, a 3-day count in September 2021 put the average speed at 22 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 33 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 38 km/h or more. That segment carries about 700 vehicles a day. The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 5 speed humps slow traffic on Roxton Road between Bloor St W and Harbord St.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Roxton Rd · Lane S of Bloor and W of Shaw – Bloor St W · 23 mSep 2021 · 3 days66922 km/h33 km/h38 km/h
Bloor St W · Carling Ave – Ossington Ave · 61 mSep 2019 · 7 days7,798

Traffic calming

  • Roxton Road · Bloor St W – Harbord St
    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 2024, with 10 collisions; 2025 recorded 9. 13 collisions (21%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 19 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 31% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 14 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (23%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Nov 16, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions62#1742 of 5,508
With an injury13#1340 of 4,660
Property damage only32
Fail to remain19
Involving a pedestrian2#1590 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist12#92 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified17
All since 201471latest Nov 16, 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

Nine thefts from vehicles and 14 bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 3.8× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 0 in 2023–2025, about 0.0 a year, against 3.3 a year before that. 67% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 36% of the bike thefts were from commercial premises — shops, offices and their lots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Jun 1, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle901street/outdoor (6), other (1)
Bicycle theft1400commercial premises (5), house driveway/garage (3)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 1, 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 Dovercourt Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Bloor & Roxton a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 62 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 & Roxton?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Sep 15, 2021, 80% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Bloor & Roxton?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Roxton Rd between Lane S of Bloor and W of Shaw and Bloor St W (September 2021), found an average of 22 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Bloor & Roxton?

The nearest Green P car park is 745 Ossington Ave (102 m away, 46 spaces, 67% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 775 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,080 spaces — 44 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 705 Shaw St (178 m).

How do I get to Bloor & Roxton by transit?

Ossington Station (Line 2) is 136 m away; streetcar route 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 878 m away; bus routes 63, 161, 94, 126, 29, 26, 402, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Bloor St West at Shaw St, 97 m).

What restaurants are near Bloor & Roxton?

55 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 288 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Hwunet (1 m), Zema Lounge & Bar (12 m), Saving Gigi (14 m), Eggsmart (19 m) and Vit Beo (22 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 & Roxton?

The nearest is Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 485 Montrose Ave, 330 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (356 m); Christie Pits Park Washroom (412 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 & Roxton?

14 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,417 spaces in total; 11 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue South (122 m, 39 spaces), Network Child Care Services - Ossington Avenue North (151 m, 49 spaces) and Bloorcourt Village Early Learning Centre (440 m, 106 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bloor & Roxton?

25 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,421 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 805 Bloor St W (240 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 496 Montrose Ave (277 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 220 Delaware Ave (334 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 79) and 177 Pendrith St (379 m, 54 units, RentSafeTO score 85). The average RentSafeTO score across the 25 is 83 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 & Roxton?

Toronto Police place nine thefts from vehicles and 14 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 Dovercourt Village page.

What neighbourhood is Bloor & Roxton in?

Bloor & Roxton is in Dovercourt Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 172). 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