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Broadview & Torrens

Broadview Ave & Torrens Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Broadview North · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Broadview & Torrens is a moderately travelled crossing. It sits in Broadview North. At the corner: a protected bikeway and parks. Nearby: 11 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
7,255
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 31, 2022
411 pedestrians · 63 cyclists
Collisions
21
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 16 property damage · #3368 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
1
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 1 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #1410 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
8 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track
Bike Share: 23 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 910 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 78% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 18 vehicles, close to the citywide median. That comes with about 2.1 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions rose 63%, from 8 in 2016–2020 to 13 in 2021–2025. Just one of those 21 collisions left someone killed or seriously injured.

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Broadview & Torrens

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
8258772100625128 nearest 43 m
Express
925
Blue Night
322325
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Broadview Ave at Don Valley Dr; Broadview Ave at Don Valley Dr North Side
Cycling
Cycle Track on Broadview Ave installed 2024
Bike Share
Gamble Ave / Broadview Ave 134 m · 23 docks · 7 stations, 126 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 (9)
  • Chester Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 407 m
  • Westwood Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 538 m
  • William Burgess Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 593 m
  • Centennial College School - Carlaw CampusCollege · 805 m
  • Jackman Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • Holy Cross Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.2 km
  • and 3 more
Parks (24)
  • Livingstone Park154 m
  • Lower Don Parklands206 m
  • Westwood Park457 m
  • Charles Sauriol Parkette537 m
  • Gamble Playground661 m
  • Todmorden Mills Park770 m
  • and 18 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Todmorden Room branch485 m
Places of interest
  • Todmorden Mills Heritage SiteLandmark · 588 m
  • Evergreen Brick WorksAttraction · 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 3 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 43. The nearest is Golden Pizza Geo, 85 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026 with 2 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés3 within 300 m · 43 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience2 within 300 m · 8 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Hidden Gemm Variety · 1223 Broadview Avegrocery20 mPassed, Jun 2025
Hidden Gemm Variety · 1229 Broadview Avegrocery29 mPassed, May 2026
Golden Pizza Geo · 1201 Broadview Ave85 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
S. Marjanovic - Toronto Plate No. 01038 (Hot Dog Cart) · 1152 Broadview Ave210 mPassed, Mar 2026
Sisters of St Joseph · 2 O'connor Dr259 mPassed, Jul 2026
Nourish By Medcan · 1129 Broadview Ave332 mPassed, Jul 2026
Salvation Army Broadview Village · 1132 Broadview Ave363 mPassed, Oct 2025
Dollarama · 1099 Broadview Avegrocery444 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 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 East York Community Centre Washroom, 503 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 163 m away at Livingstone Park.

  • East York Community Centre Washroom · 1081 Pape Ave
    View centre hours
    503 m
Drinking water
Livingstone Park drinking fountain · 163 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

Seven licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 583 spaces; five accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Chester Jr YMCA (407 m, 161 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km7 centres · 583 spaces
Fee subsidy5 of 7
  • Chester Jr YMCA · 115 Gowan Ave
    161 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    407 m
  • Abiona Centre For Infant and Early Mental Health Elc Broadview Campus · 1102 Broadview Ave
    62 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    422 m
  • Petite Maison Montessori · 126 O Connor Dr
    63 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    502 m
  • William Burgess Jr YMCA · 100 Torrens Ave
    166 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    593 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 322 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 55 Division (3.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 473 m away.

FireFire Station 322 · 1 km256 Cosburn Ave
Police55 Division · 3.8 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 41 · 473 m1300 Pape 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 66 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,455 rental units, 2.9× the median for a Toronto intersection — one social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1243 Broadview Ave (58 m, 38 units, 4 storeys, built 1955), which scored 96 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 66 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 125 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 53 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings66 · 4,455 units · 1 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026125 across the 66
Open fire-code violations53
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1243 Broadview Ave · Apartments R Us Property Mgmt Ltd384195596 · Nov 2025058 m
2 Gamble Ave · Arilex Apartment Travel Lodge123195086 · Sep 2024099 m
20 Gamble Ave · Ranee Management21312196488 · Jul 20255 · 3 fire138 m
1175 Broadview Ave · Dms Property Management13412197097 · Jul 20251148 m
68 Hillside Dr · Greenwin Corp.444195395 · Jul 20240159 m
15 Gamble Ave · Valour Management Inc.273195890 · Jul 20250 · 3 fire164 m
39 Torrens Ave · 1455522 Ontario Ltd283195493 · Jun 20250177 m
1 Fernwood Gdns · 1202074 Ontario Inc123196572 · Jul 20260180 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 lots469 lots · ≈27,410 spaces · 82.2 ha
Within 500 m57 lots · ≈1,230 spaces
Green P (public)13 car parks · about 557 spaces
EV charging (City)41 FULTON AVE · 891 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
838 Broadview Ave · Surface1.3 km1176% (Q1 2026)
14 Arundel Ave · Surface1.4 km3763% (Q1 2026)
18 Ferrier Ave · Surface1.4 km2358% (Q1 2026)
25 Ferrier Ave · Surface1.4 km4682% (Q1 2026)
77 Gough Ave · Surface1.4 km1783% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 28 m away, ≈14 spaces; 59 m away, ≈19 spaces; 75 m away, ≈13 spaces; 96 m away, ≈36 spaces; 140 m away, ≈4 spaces; 159 m away, ≈41 spaces. More EV charging: 14 Arundel Ave. (1.3 km, 8 ports); 35 Erindale Ave (1.4 km, 10 ports); 503 Jones Ave (2 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, Mar 31, 2022

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. Traffic is heaviest from the north: 3,962 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 55% of the total, against 174 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the north (31 of 63). Evening rush dominates here: 1,344 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 797 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 4.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 4 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 north3,962southbound · 31 bikes · 4.1% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles7,255411 pedestrians · 63 cyclists · 4.6% heavy
From the east174westbound · 5 bikes · 3.4% heavy
From the south3,119northbound · 27 bikes · 5.2% heavy
AM peak hour797 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,344 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Mar 31, 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 Torrens Ave between Broadview Ave and Lane W of Pape and N of Torrens, 212 m from the corner, a 2-day count in May 2003 put the average speed at 37 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 48 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 54 km/h or more. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. Broadview Ave between Don Valley Dr and Woodville Ave measured slower: 40 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 47 km/h (Sep 2025). The reading is 23 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 11 speed humps slow traffic on Torrens Avenue between Broadview Ave and Donlands Ave.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Broadview Ave · Don Valley Dr – Woodville Ave · 65 mSep 2025 · 3 days10,94740 km/h47 km/h50 km/h
Torrens Ave · Broadview Ave – Lane W of Pape and N of Torrens · 212 mMay 2003 · 2 days62437 km/h48 km/h54 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Torrens Avenue · Broadview Ave – Donlands Ave
    11 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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 5 collisions. 3 collisions (14%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 14% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (5%), typical for the city. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jan 14, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions21#3368 of 5,508
With an injury3#3503 of 4,660
Property damage only16
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian1#3087 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201428latest Jan 14, 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

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. 1 pedestrian was among those hurt. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Jul 19, 2018.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions1#1410 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian1#813 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness0
All KSI since 20061latest Jul 19, 2018

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

Five thefts from vehicles and one bike theft were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 60% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle530street/outdoor (3), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft110house driveway/garage (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 16, 2024. 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 Broadview North.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Broadview & Torrens a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025 (#1410 of 1,505), out of 21 reported collisions of any severity. 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 Broadview & Torrens?

A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Mar 31, 2022, 78% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Broadview & Torrens?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Torrens Ave between Broadview Ave and Lane W of Pape and N of Torrens (May 2003), found an average of 37 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 48 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Broadview & Torrens?

The nearest Green P car park is 838 Broadview Ave (1.3 km away, 11 spaces, 76% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 469 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 27,410 spaces — 57 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 41 FULTON AVE (891 m).

How do I get to Broadview & Torrens by transit?

Bus routes 8, 25, 87, 72, 100, 62, 51, 28 and 1 more within 1 km (nearest stop: Broadview Ave at Don Valley Dr, 43 m).

What restaurants are near Broadview & Torrens?

3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 43 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Golden Pizza Geo (85 m), S. Marjanovic - Toronto Plate No. 01038 (Hot Dog Cart) (210 m), Sisters of St Joseph (259 m), Nourish By Medcan (332 m) and Salvation Army Broadview Village (363 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 Broadview & Torrens?

The nearest is East York Community Centre Washroom, 1081 Pape Ave, 503 m away (View centre hours). 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 Broadview & Torrens?

Seven licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 583 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Chester Jr YMCA (407 m, 161 spaces), Abiona Centre For Infant and Early Mental Health Elc Broadview Campus (422 m, 62 spaces) and Petite Maison Montessori (502 m, 63 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Broadview & Torrens?

66 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,455 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1243 Broadview Ave (58 m, 38 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 2 Gamble Ave (99 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 86), 20 Gamble Ave (138 m, 213 units, RentSafeTO score 88) and 1175 Broadview Ave (148 m, 134 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 66 is 90 out of 100; 1 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 Broadview & Torrens?

Toronto Police place five 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 Broadview North page.

What neighbourhood is Broadview & Torrens in?

Broadview & Torrens is in Broadview North (City of Toronto neighbourhood 057). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Sources

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