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Blythwood & Strathgowan

Blythwood Rd & Strathgowan Cres · Toronto, Ontario · Mount Pleasant East · Ward 15, Don Valley West

In Mount Pleasant East, Blythwood & Strathgowan is a mid-volume intersection. At the corner: 2 schools within 250 m. Nearby: 8 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
5,092
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 24, 2022
80 pedestrians · 8 cyclists
Collisions
10
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 7 property damage · #4262 of 5,508 · +1 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 640 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 55% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 64 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). That comes with about 1 reported collision 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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Blythwood & Strathgowan

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
741031112416297 nearest 468 m
Blue Night
352320
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Sunnybrook Health Centre - S Wing 909 m · 11 docks · 2 stations, 24 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 (24)
  • Sunny View Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 125 m
  • Blythwood Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 130 m
  • Manor Montessori School - Mt PleasantPrivate · 856 m
  • Northern Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Blyth Academy School - Lawrence ParkPrivate · 1 km
  • Toronto French School - Sr LawrencePrivate · 1.1 km
  • and 18 more
Community centres
  • Bedford Park Community Centre1.4 km
Parks (27)
  • Sherwood Park291 m
  • Blythdale Greenbelt331 m
  • Blythwood Ravine Park607 m
  • Sunnydene Park701 m
  • Stratford Park752 m
  • Lawrence Park Ravine833 m
  • and 21 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Sunnybrook Hospital branch1.2 km
  • Toronto Public Library Locke branch1.3 km
Places of interest
  • Alexander Muir Memorial GardensNature/ Park · 1.1 km

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 30 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is The Homeway, 762 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 30 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 3 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Summerhill Market · 1054 Mount Pleasant Rdgrocery537 mPassed, May 2026
Circle K · 957 Mount Pleasant Rdgrocery735 mPassed, Jun 2025
The Homeway · 955 Mount Pleasant Rd762 mPassed, Mar 2026
Robyn's Cookie · 953 Mount Pleasant Rd767 mPassed, Oct 2025 · 1 infraction
Robyn's Cookie · 953 Mount Pleasant Rd768 mPassed, Aug 2026
L'amour Cafe and Pastry · 927 Mount Pleasant Rd823 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
L'amour Cafe and Pastry · 927 Mount Pleasant Rd823 mPassed, Jul 2025
Erskine Tuck Shop · 140 Erskine Ave853 mPassed, Jun 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 Sherwood Park Washroom, 236 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 219 m away at Sherwood Park.

  • Sherwood Park Washroom · 190 Sherwood Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    236 m
  • Lawrence Park Ravine Tennis Clubhouse Washroom · 51 Alexander Muir Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    872 m
Drinking water
Sherwood Park drinking fountain · 219 m; Sherwood Park dog fountain · 332 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

Five licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 245 spaces; two accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Plasp Blythwood Junior Public School (131 m, 73 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km5 centres · 245 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 5
  • Plasp Blythwood Junior Public School · 2 Strathgowan Cres
    73 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    131 m
  • Manor Montessori School · 9 Elvina Gdns
    25 spaces · preschool
    850 m
  • Manor Montessori School 3 · 909 Mount Pleasant Rd
    16 spaces · preschool
    856 m
  • Sunnybrook Creche · 2075 Bayview Ave
    71 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    908 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 131 (1.4 km), the nearest police station 53 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 908 m away.

FireFire Station 131 · 1.4 km3135 Yonge St
Police53 Division · 1.7 km75 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 57 · 908 m2075 Bayview Ave

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 — 2,871 rental units — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 172 Sherwood Ave (455 m, 18 units, 3 storeys, built 1965), which scored 94 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 94, above the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 48 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 22 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings30 · 2,871 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score94 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202648 across the 30
Open fire-code violations22
Tallest30 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
172 Sherwood Ave · 6716741 Canada Inc183196594 · Nov 20252455 m
200 Erskine Ave154196194 · Oct 20250695 m
1000 Mount Pleasant Rd · Homestead Land Holdings Limited15513201099 · Jul 20264714 m
170 Erskine Ave314195791 · Sep 20260769 m
160 Erskine Ave · Homestead Land Holdings Limited25023196999 · Oct 20254800 m
171 Erskine Ave · Berkley Property Management Inc.4713196093 · Aug 20240812 m
140 Erskine Ave · Homestead Land Holdings Limited501301972100 · Jul 20245 · 1 fire825 m
165 Erskine Ave · Homestead Land Holdings Limited404195095 · Sep 20264839 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 lots420 lots · ≈21,000 spaces · 63 ha
Within 500 m5 lots · ≈320 spaces
Green P (public)10 car parks · about 989 spaces
EV charging (City)75 Holly St. · 1.5 km · 28 Level 2 + 1 fast ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
2170 Bayview avenue · Surface892 m69 *
6 Sherwood Avenue · Surface1 km46 *
20 Castlefield Avenue · Surface1.2 km163 *
730 Mount Pleasant Rd · Garage1.4 km5342% (Q1 2026)
30 Roehampton Ave · Garage1.4 km18735% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 46 m away, ≈19 spaces; 77 m away, ≈35 spaces; 153 m away, ≈115 spaces; 348 m away, ≈98 spaces; 381 m away, ≈53 spaces; 607 m away, ≈4,360 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, Feb 24, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 2,740 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 54% of the total, against 220 from the north. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 826 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m., 11% above the afternoon peak from 4:00 p.m. (746). Heavy vehicles made up 2.0% 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 2022, 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 north220southbound · 0 bikes · 3.6% heavy
From the west2,740eastbound · 4 bikes · 2.2% heavy
Total vehicles5,09280 pedestrians · 8 cyclists · 2.0% heavy
From the east2,132westbound · 4 bikes · 1.6% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour826 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour746 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 24, 2022

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 Blythwood Rd between Mount Pleasant Rd and Sherwood Park Trl, 293 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2026 put the average speed at 42 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 49 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 54 km/h or more. That segment carries about 9,400 vehicles a day. Strathgowan Cres between Blythwood Rd and Strathgowan Ave measured slower: 27 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 37 km/h (Feb 2024).

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Strathgowan Cres · Blythwood Rd – Strathgowan Ave · 89 mFeb 2024 · 3 days65027 km/h37 km/h41 km/h
Strathgowan Ave · Garland Ave – Strathgowan Cres · 206 mJan 2023 · 3 days26826 km/h34 km/h39 km/h
Blythwood Rd · Mount Pleasant Rd – Sherwood Park Trl · 293 mApr 2026 · 3 days9,41542 km/h49 km/h54 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 2016, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 2 collisions (20%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 10% of collisions. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (20%). Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Feb 2, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions10#4262 of 5,508
With an injury2#3625 of 4,660
Property damage only7
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian2#1594 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201413latest Feb 2, 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

One theft from a vehicle 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 vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 22, 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 Mount Pleasant East.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Blythwood & Strathgowan a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 10 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 Blythwood & Strathgowan?

A mid-volume intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 24, 2022, 55% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Blythwood & Strathgowan?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Blythwood Rd between Mount Pleasant Rd and Sherwood Park Trl (April 2026), found an average of 42 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 49 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Blythwood & Strathgowan?

The nearest Green P car park is 2170 Bayview avenue (892 m away, 69 spaces). The City's mapping shows 420 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,000 spaces — 5 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 75 Holly St. (1.5 km).

How do I get to Blythwood & Strathgowan by transit?

Bus routes 74, 103, 11, 124, 162, 97 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Blythwood & Strathgowan?

None within 300 m, and 30 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are The Homeway (762 m), Robyn's Cookie (767 m), Robyn's Cookie (768 m), L'amour Cafe and Pastry (823 m) and L'amour Cafe and Pastry (823 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 Blythwood & Strathgowan?

The nearest is Sherwood Park Washroom, 190 Sherwood Ave, 236 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Lawrence Park Ravine Tennis Clubhouse Washroom (872 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 Blythwood & Strathgowan?

Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 245 spaces in total; 2 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Plasp Blythwood Junior Public School (131 m, 73 spaces), Manor Montessori School (850 m, 25 spaces) and Manor Montessori School 3 (856 m, 16 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Blythwood & Strathgowan?

30 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,871 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 172 Sherwood Ave (455 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 200 Erskine Ave (695 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 1000 Mount Pleasant Rd (714 m, 155 units, RentSafeTO score 99) and 170 Erskine Ave (769 m, 31 units, RentSafeTO score 91). The average RentSafeTO score across the 30 is 94 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 Blythwood & Strathgowan?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle 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 Mount Pleasant East page.

What neighbourhood is Blythwood & Strathgowan in?

Blythwood & Strathgowan is in Mount Pleasant East (City of Toronto neighbourhood 099). It is in Ward 15, Don Valley West, represented by Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin.

Sources

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