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Bruce & Givins

Bruce St & Givins St · Toronto, Ontario · Trinity-Bellwoods · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York

At its last City count, in 2021, Bruce & Givins, in Trinity-Bellwoods, in central Toronto, was a lightly travelled intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has a school within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: 9 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic
314
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 13, 2021
262 pedestrians · 70 cyclists
Collisions
3
police-reported · 2016–2025
none killed or seriously injured
Getting there
0
TTC stops within 100 m
9 routes within 1 km
Within a walk
51/100
city median 48 · #2,534 of 5,672
47 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 629 m

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Bruce & Givins

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 · Oct 13, 2021

Traffic is spread evenly across the approaches, from 152 vehicles entering from the west to 162 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the north (31 of 70). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 62 vehicles in the hour from 2:00 p.m., 55% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (40). Heavy vehicles made up 3.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 vehicles. 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 north162southbound · 31 bikes · 4.3% heavy
From the west152eastbound · 13 bikes · 2.6% heavy
Total vehicles314262 pedestrians · 70 cyclists · 3.5% heavy
From the east0westbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 26 bikes · 0.0% heavy

Peak hours: 40 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 62 from 2:00 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 3 collisions. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 33% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Aug 19, 2025.

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions3
With an injury0
Property damage only2
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian1
Involving a cyclist0
Severity not classified1
Killed or seriously injured0
All KSI since 20060

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

The City's counter on Givins St between Bruce St and Argyle St (75 m away) recorded an average of 24 km/h in its 3-day count in May 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 34 km/h. That segment carries about 400 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Givins St · Bruce St – Argyle St · 75 mMay 2025 · 3 days41024 km/h34 km/h39 km/h

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
501 505 504 508 nearest 251 m · 3 min
TTC bus
63 nearest 200 m
Blue Night
301 305 304 363
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Ossington Ave / Bruce St 115 m · 15 docks · 21 stations, 491 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
20 car parks · about 1,533 spaces
EV charging
1051 Queen Street W · 420 m · 2 Level 2 ports; also 248 Shaw St (474 m), 283 Ossington Ave (664 m)
Bike parking
86 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 49 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
17 mapped lots within 500 m, 488 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
18 Ossington Ave · Surface222 m20over 100% (Q1 2026)
1117 Dundas St W · Surface467 m3786% (Q1 2026)
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface633 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)
1030 King Street West - garage entrance via Shank St. · Garage645 m152 *—
803 Richmond St W · Surface821 m4856% (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

The nearest grocery store is Jordan's No Frills, 629 m away; 4 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. For everything else there is one convenience store or gas bar within 300 m. There are 47 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 255 eating places within a kilometre — 6.2× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Cravin Cream, 65 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Shoppers Drug Mart, 349 m away; 10 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Toronto Western Hospital, 1.6 km away. For seniors' housing: Maynard Nursing Home, a long-term care home 336 m away. West Neighbourhood House - Social Integration runs a seniors' active living programme 565 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Cravin Cream · 25a Givins St65 m
  • Don't Tell · 59 Ossington Ave97 m
  • Pho Tien Thanh · 57 Ossington Ave120 m
  • Nabe Hana · 70 Ossington Ave132 m
  • Union · 72 Ossington Ave137 m
47 within 300 m · 255 within 1 km
Grocery
Jordan's No Frills 629 m · 7 min · 4 within 1 km
Food shops
Andrea's Cookies 389 m · 5 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
Convenience
1 convenience store or gas bar within 300 m
Pharmacy
Shoppers Drug Mart 349 m · 4 min · 10 within 1 km
Child care
  • Givins/Shaw School Community Day Care · 121 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day46 m
  • Trinity Bellwoods Community Children's Group/Care (Crawford Street) · 35 spaces, school age · fee subsidy538 m · 6 min
  • Queen Street Childcare Centre · 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day696 m · 8 min
8 licensed centres · 484 spaces within 1 km · 5 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed · accessible539 m · 6 min
  • Trinity Bellwoods Playground Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.541 m · 6 min
Drinking water: Osler Playground 422 m · 5 min; Paul E. Garfinkel Park 490 m · 6 min
Health and care
  • Toronto Western Hospital · hospital site1.6 km · 19 min
  • Maynard Nursing Home · long-term care home336 m · 4 min
  • West Neighbourhood House - Social Integration · seniors' active living centre565 m · 7 min

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 (23)
  • Osler Playground505 m · 6 min
  • Paul E. Garfinkel Park513 m · 6 min
  • Trinity Bellwoods Park580 m · 7 min
  • Roxton Road Parkette625 m · 7 min
  • Lakeview Avenue Parkette722 m · 9 min
and 18 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (11)
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 46 m
  • Discovering Minds Montessori SchoolPrivate · 798 m · 10 min
  • Pope Francis Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 825 m · 10 min
  • Ossington Old Orchard Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km · 11 min
  • Ecole Elementaire Pierre Elliott TrudeauFrench Public · 1 km · 12 min
and 6 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.1 km · 14 min
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch1.4 km · 17 min
Places of interest
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 688 m · 8 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.

51of 100
Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #2,534 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food21/30

    4 grocery stores within 1 km · 47 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit15/28

    10 stops within 300 m · 9 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go3/14

    library 1.1 km away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation6/10

    nearest park 0.5 km · 1 community centre within 800 m

  • Schools and child care6/8

    1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m

  • Crossing on foot0/10

    no crossing features on file

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

15 registered apartment buildings with 1,833 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, six of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 100 Lower Ossington Ave (317 m, 179 units, 8 storeys, built 2013), which scored 91 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 15 scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
100 Lower Ossington Ave · Killam Apartment REIT1798201391 · Aug 2024317 m · 4 min
900 Queen St W social housing · Artscape Non-Profit Housing Inc.223199681 · Jul 2024351 m · 4 min
24 Shaw St social housing2009198987 · Aug 2026559 m · 7 min
300 Shaw St social housing323196690 · Jul 2026590 m · 7 min
55 Lisgar St · Medallion Corporation1169200596 · Aug 2026723 m · 9 min
15 Gore Vale Ave · Terrance Goldthorpe103192645 · Aug 2026768 m · 9 min

15 registered buildings · 1,833 units · 6 social housing · tallest 18 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

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Jun 19, 2026.

2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle220house driveway/garage (1), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft001—

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 Trinity-Bellwoods.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Bruce & Givins a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 3 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 Bruce & Givins?

A lightly travelled intersection at the City's last count here, in 2021. Its latest count is from Oct 13, 2021, 3% of today's median for a counted intersection.

Is Bruce & Givins a walkable intersection?

Bruce & Givins scores 51 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #2,534 of 5,672 Toronto intersections; 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: 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; 4 grocery stores within 1 km · 47 places to eat within 300 m; nearest park 0.5 km · 1 community centre within 800 m.

How fast do cars go at Bruce & Givins?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Givins St between Bruce St and Argyle St (May 2025), found an average of 24 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 34 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Bruce & Givins?

The nearest Green P car park is 18 Ossington Ave (222 m away, 20 spaces). The City's mapping shows 488 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 13,560 spaces — 17 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1051 Queen Street W (420 m).

How do I get to Bruce & Givins by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 505, 504, 508 stop within 1 km, the nearest 251 m away; bus route 63 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Bruce & Givins?

47 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 255 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Cravin Cream (65 m), Don't Tell (97 m), Pho Tien Thanh (120 m), Nabe Hana (132 m) and Union (137 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Bruce & Givins?

The nearest is Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 155 Crawford St, 539 m away, with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Trinity Bellwoods Playground Washroom (541 m); Trinity Bellwoods Park North Baseball Diamond Washroom (823 m).

Is there child care near Bruce & Givins?

Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 484 spaces in total; 5 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Givins/Shaw School Community Day Care (46 m, 121 spaces), Trinity Bellwoods Community Children's Group/Care (Crawford Street) (538 m, 35 spaces) and Queen Street Childcare Centre (696 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Bruce & Givins?

15 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,833 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 100 Lower Ossington Ave (317 m, 179 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 900 Queen St W (351 m, 22 units, RentSafeTO score 81), 24 Shaw St (559 m, 200 units, RentSafeTO score 87) and 300 Shaw St (590 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 90). The average RentSafeTO score across the 15 is 84 out of 100; 2 scored below 70.

How many thefts are reported at Bruce & Givins?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Trinity-Bellwoods page.

What neighbourhood is Bruce & Givins in?

Bruce & Givins is in Trinity-Bellwoods (City of Toronto neighbourhood 081). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik.

Sources

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