Map
Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time
Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · Nov 2, 2021
This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 183 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 37% of the total, against 127 from the east. Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 119 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 38% above the afternoon peak from 4:45 p.m. (86). Trucks and buses were 8.1% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,177 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.
Peak hours: 119 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 86 from 4:45 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 1 collision. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 20% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Nov 12, 2025.
No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 5 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 4 | |
| Fail to remain | 1 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 1 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
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.
How fast traffic moves here
On Bowmore Rd between Wrenson Rd and Fairmount Cres, 102 m from the corner, a 2-day count in July 2023 put the average speed at 23 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 30 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 34 km/h or more. That segment carries about 500 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Gerrard St E (173 m away, 40 km/h limit), 1.1% of the 85,641 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority. 1 speed hump slow traffic on Fairmount Crescent between Bowmore Rd and Bellhaven Rd.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowmore Rd · Wrenson Rd – Fairmount Cres · 102 m | Jul 2023 · 2 days | 547 | 23 km/h | 30 km/h | 34 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Gerrard St E (eastbound), 173 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 37 km/h, 85th percentile 42 km/h; 1.1% at 50 km/h or more. 85,641 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
- Traffic calming
- Fairmount Crescent (Bowmore Rd – Bellhaven Rd): 1 speed hump
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
- Streetcar
- 506 503 nearest 104 m
- TTC bus
- 92 22 nearest 592 m · 7 min
- Blue Night
- 306 322
- Nearest stops
- 2 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Fairmount Park 309 m · 4 min · 18 docks · 4 stations, 71 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
- 15 car parks · about 470 spaces
- EV charging
- 29 Bowmore Rd · 298 m · 1 Level 2 ports; also 543 Strathmore Blvd (1.3 km), 1760 Queen St E. (1.4 km)
- Bike parking
- 2 post-and-rings within 300 m
- Other lots
- 4 mapped lots within 500 m, 294 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 268 Rhodes Ave · Surface | 1 km | 39 | 68% (Q1 2026) |
| 72 Amroth Ave · Surface | 1.2 km | 50 | 50% (Q1 2026) |
| 151 Hiawatha Road · Surface | 1.2 km | 50 * | — |
| 101 Cedarvale Ave · Surface | 1.3 km | 35 | 50% (Q1 2026) |
| 116 Winners Crcl · Surface | 1.5 km | 10 | 52% (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
No grocery store is within 300 m of the corner. The closest is No Frills, 845 m away. Toronto Public Health inspects 2 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 29. The nearest is Bodega, 110 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Zara's Pharmacy, 385 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Bodega · 1801 Gerrard St E110 m
- The Wright Spot · 80 Bowmore Rd136 m
- Blue River · 1929 Gerrard St E523 m · 6 min
- Today's Menu · 1933 Gerrard St E549 m · 7 min
- Naqha · 1933 Gerrard St E550 m · 7 min
- Grocery
- No Frills 845 m · 10 min
- Food shops
- Sanagan's Meat Locker 860 m · 10 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Zara's Pharmacy 385 m · 5 min · 4 within 1 km
- Child care
- Bowmore · 89 spaces, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day137 m
- Beach Hill Montessori · 65 spaces, toddler, preschool706 m · 8 min
- Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough · 167 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day779 m · 9 min
- Washrooms
- Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom · hours not listed52 m
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 (21)
- Williamson Park Ravine400 m · 5 min
- Fairmount Park413 m · 5 min
- Wildwood Crescent Playground624 m · 7 min
- Fairford Avenue Parkette697 m · 8 min
- Cairns Avenue Parkette863 m · 10 min
- Community centres
- Schools (8)
- Bowmore Road Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 137 m
- Georges Etienne Cartier Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 779 m · 9 min
- Norway Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 905 m · 11 min
- Roden Public & Equinox Holistic AlternativeEnglish Public · 1 km · 12 min
- Monarch Park Collegiate & School of Life ExperienceEnglish Public · 1.3 km · 15 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Gerrard/Ashdale branch1.1 km · 13 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.
Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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
Within a kilometre there are 18 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 740 rental units — nine social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1845 Gerrard St E (284 m, 20 units, 3 storeys, built 1950), which scored 89 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1845 Gerrard St E social housing · St Jude Community Homes | 20 | 3 | 1950 | 89 · Jun 2024 | 284 m · 3 min |
| 1691 Gerrard St E | 66 | 7 | 1958 | 94 · Sep 2025 | 468 m · 6 min |
| 1908 Gerrard St E · North 44 Property Management Inc | 28 | 5 | 2009 | 76 · Sep 2024 | 487 m · 6 min |
| 11 Newbold Ave Toronto Community Housing · TCH | 21 | 4 | 1984 | 83 · Sep 2024 | 532 m · 6 min |
| 592 Woodbine Ave · Villettes Apartments | 36 | 5 | 1966 | 93 · Nov 2025 | 543 m · 6 min |
| 763 Woodbine Ave · Realstar | 64 | 7 | 2016 | 95 · Jun 2024 | 598 m · 7 min |
18 registered buildings · 740 units · 9 social housing · tallest 7 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
Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.
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 Woodbine Corridor.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Bowmore & Fairmount 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 Bowmore & Fairmount?
A low-volume local intersection at the City's last count here, in 2021. Its latest count is from Nov 2, 2021, 5% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Bowmore & Fairmount a walkable intersection?
Bowmore & Fairmount scores 41 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; 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: 2 parks within 500 m · 1 community centre within 800 m; 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 grocery store within 1 km · 2 places to eat within 300 m. The crossing itself: traffic calming.
How fast do cars go at Bowmore & Fairmount?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Bowmore Rd between Wrenson Rd and Fairmount Cres (July 2023), found an average of 23 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 30 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 173 m away (40 km/h), 1.1% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Bowmore & Fairmount?
The nearest Green P car park is 268 Rhodes Ave (1.0 km away, 39 spaces, 68% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 294 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 11,340 spaces — 4 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 29 Bowmore Rd (298 m).
How do I get to Bowmore & Fairmount by transit?
Streetcar routes 506, 503 stop within 1 km, the nearest 104 m away; bus routes 92, 22 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Bowmore & Fairmount?
2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 29 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Bodega (110 m), The Wright Spot (136 m), Blue River (523 m), Today's Menu (549 m) and Naqha (550 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Bowmore & Fairmount?
The nearest is Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom, 1725 Gerrard St E, 52 m away.
Is there child care near Bowmore & Fairmount?
Six licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 548 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Bowmore (137 m, 89 spaces), Beach Hill Montessori (706 m, 65 spaces) and Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough (779 m, 167 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Bowmore & Fairmount?
18 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 740 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1845 Gerrard St E (284 m, 20 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 1691 Gerrard St E (468 m, 66 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 1908 Gerrard St E (487 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 76) and 11 Newbold Ave (532 m, 21 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 18 is 92 out of 100.
What neighbourhood is Bowmore & Fairmount in?
Bowmore & Fairmount is in Woodbine Corridor (City of Toronto neighbourhood 064). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Nov 2, 2021.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary); Traffic Calming Database.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 19 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.67706, -79.31451 · centreline node 13462102.