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Bowmore & Fairmount

Bowmore Rd & Fairmount Cres · Toronto, Ontario · Woodbine Corridor · Ward 19, Beaches-East York

Bowmore & Fairmount, in Woodbine Corridor, is a low-volume local intersection, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: a school within 250 m and parks. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
493
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 2, 2021
496 pedestrians · 35 cyclists
Collisions
5
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 4 property damage · #4974 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
2 streetcar routes · 4 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 60 vehicles, 5% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.0 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 7.1% of vehicle volume, about 9.2× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 0.5 collisions a year here over 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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Bowmore & Fairmount

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
506503 nearest 101 m
TTC bus
92229170 nearest 406 m
Blue Night
306322300
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Fairmount Park 153 m · 19 docks · 11 stations, 199 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 (21)
  • Bowmore Road Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 111 m
  • Georges Etienne Cartier Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 410 m
  • Norway Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 671 m
  • Monarch Park Collegiate & School of Life ExperienceEnglish Public · 709 m
  • Earl Haig Public SchoolEnglish Public · 721 m
  • Roden Public & Equinox Holistic AlternativeEnglish Public · 775 m
  • and 15 more
Parks (30)
  • Fairmount Park163 m
  • Williamson Park Ravine254 m
  • Merrill Bridge Road Park464 m
  • Wildwood Crescent Playground474 m
  • Coxwell Avenue Parkette508 m
  • Fairford Avenue Parkette531 m
  • and 24 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Gerrard/Ashdale branch794 m
  • Toronto Public Library Danforth/Coxwell branch923 m
  • Toronto Public Library Main Street branch1.4 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 4 eating places within 300 m of this corner; within a kilometre the count is 100. The nearest is Bodega, 109 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in December 2025 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés4 within 300 m · 100 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 24 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bodega · 1801 Gerrard St E109 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 2 infractions
Bowmore Child Enrichment Centre · 80 Bowmore Rd Unit-11110 mPassed, May 2026
Bowmore Extended Day Program (Edp) · 80 Bowmore Rd110 mPassed, Mar 2026
The Wright Spot · 80 Bowmore Rd110 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough · 250 Gainsborough Rd410 mPassed, May 2026
Blue River · 1929 Gerrard St E457 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 1 infraction
Today's Menu · 1933 Gerrard St E467 mPassed, Sep 2024 · 2 infractions
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge · 419 Coxwell Ave484 mPassed, May 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 Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom, 52 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 86 m away at Fairmount Park.

  • Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom · 1725 Gerrard St E
    View centre hours
    52 m
  • Monarch Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom · 115 Felstead Ave
    View facility hours
    899 m
Drinking water
Fairmount Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 86 m; Fairmount Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 229 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

11 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 991 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Bowmore (111 m, 89 spaces, preschool, kindergarten).

Within 1 km11 centres · 991 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 11
  • Bowmore · 80 Bowmore Rd
    89 spaces · preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    111 m
  • Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough · 250 Gainsborough Rd
    167 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    410 m
  • Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Coxwell · 419 Coxwell Ave
    69 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    483 m
  • Downtown Montessori at Coatsworth (Formerly Ward Nine -Coatsworth) · 11 Coatsworth Cres
    57 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    575 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 227 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 55 Division (905 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.

FireFire Station 227 · 1.2 km1904 Queen St E
Police55 Division · 905 m101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 46 · 1.2 km105 Cedarvale 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 46 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,122 rental units, 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection — 21 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1845 Gerrard St E (223 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 91, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 53 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 6 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings46 · 2,122 units · 21 social housing
RentSafeTO score91 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202653 across the 46
Open fire-code violations6
Tallest9 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1845 Gerrard St Esocial housing · St Jude Community Homes203195089 · Jun 20240223 m
1691 Gerrard St E667195894 · Sep 20252282 m
11 Newbold AveToronto Community Housing · TCH214198483 · Sep 20240342 m
4 Newbold Ave124196488 · Oct 20250349 m
650 Woodbine Ave · Equiton Living384197795 · Nov 20250377 m
592 Woodbine Ave · Villettes Apartments365196693 · Nov 20250398 m
1908 Gerrard St E · North 44 Property Management Inc285200976 · Sep 20241418 m
1636 Gerrard St E · Signet Group Inc.486196092 · Sep 20262451 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 lots517 lots · ≈18,450 spaces · 55.3 ha
Within 500 m15 lots · ≈3,080 spaces
Green P (public)21 car parks · about 1,175 spaces
EV charging (City)29 Bowmore Rd · 295 m · 1 Level 2 ports
Bike parking5 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
268 Rhodes Ave · Surface730 m3968% (Q1 2026)
151 Hiawatha Road · Surface840 m50 *
72 Amroth Ave · Surface1 km5050% (Q1 2026)
1612 Danforth Ave · Surface1 km2275% (Q1 2026)
737 Rhodes Ave · Surface1 km2450% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 180 m away, ≈48 spaces; 292 m away, ≈48 spaces; 370 m away, ≈33 spaces; 376 m away, ≈24 spaces; 399 m away, ≈20 spaces; 405 m away, ≈53 spaces. More EV charging: 31 Roseheath Ave (556 m, 2 ports); 1612 Danforth Ave. (1 km, 2 ports); 543 Strathmore Blvd (1 km, 2 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, 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 16,183 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 north183southbound · 5 bikes · 5.5% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles493496 pedestrians · 35 cyclists · 8.1% heavy
From the east127westbound · 11 bikes · 6.3% heavy
From the south183northbound · 19 bikes · 12.0% heavy
AM peak hour119 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour86 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 2, 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 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), 1.0% of the 89,176 vehicles logged in July 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 segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Bowmore Rd · Wrenson Rd – Fairmount Cres · 102 mJul 2023 · 2 days54723 km/h30 km/h34 km/h

School-zone speed sign 173 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct36 · 42 km/h
Over the limit6.4%
50 km/h or more1.0%

Gerrard St E (eastbound), 1696 Gerrard Street East · 89,176 vehicles logged in July 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; 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 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.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions5#4974 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only4
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 20146latest Nov 12, 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

Police records place no theft from a vehicle or bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 8, 2014. 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. Its latest count is from Nov 2, 2021, 5% of the median for a counted intersection.

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), 1.0% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Bowmore & Fairmount?

The nearest Green P car park is 268 Rhodes Ave (730 m away, 39 spaces, 68% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 517 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 18,450 spaces — 15 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 29 Bowmore Rd (295 m).

How do I get to Bowmore & Fairmount by transit?

Streetcar routes 506, 503 stop within 1 km, the nearest 101 m away; bus routes 92, 22, 91, 70 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Bowmore & Fairmount?

4 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 100 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bodega (109 m), Bowmore Child Enrichment Centre (110 m), Bowmore Extended Day Program (Edp) (110 m), The Wright Spot (110 m) and Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough (410 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 Bowmore & Fairmount?

The nearest is Fairmount Park Community Centre Washroom, 1725 Gerrard St E, 52 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Monarch Park Outdoor Pool / Rink Washroom (899 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 Bowmore & Fairmount?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 991 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Bowmore (111 m, 89 spaces), Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Gainsborough (410 m, 167 spaces) and Le Petit Chaperon Rouge - Coxwell (483 m, 69 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bowmore & Fairmount?

46 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,122 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1845 Gerrard St E (223 m, 20 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 1691 Gerrard St E (282 m, 66 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 11 Newbold Ave (342 m, 21 units, RentSafeTO score 83) and 4 Newbold Ave (349 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 46 is 91 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.

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

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