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Carlaw & Browning

Carlaw Ave & Browning Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Playter Estates-Danforth · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Carlaw & Browning, in Playter Estates-Danforth, is a quiet local crossing. At the corner: a bike lane and a school within 250 m. Nearby: Pape Station (Line 2) 422 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,699
vehicles · 8-hour count, May 10, 2018
464 pedestrians · 76 cyclists
Collisions
9
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
2 with an injury · 4 property damage · #4385 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
Pape Station 422 m · 2 streetcar routes · 8 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings)
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 210 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 18% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 4 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 4.5% of vehicle volume, about 5.8× the typical share. On average 0.9 collisions a year were reported here in 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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Carlaw & Browning

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Pape Station (Line 2)422 m; Chester Station (Line 2)564 m; Donlands Station (Line 2)806 m; Broadview Station (Line 2)1 km
Streetcar
504505 nearest 1 km
TTC bus
7210062825878351 nearest 210 m
Express
925
Blue Night
304305325300322
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Carlaw Ave installed 2003; Signed Route (No Pavement Markings) on Browning Ave installed 2005
Bike Share
Fulton Ave / Pape Ave 205 m · 19 docks · 16 stations, 310 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)
  • Centennial College School - Carlaw CampusCollege · 218 m
  • Westwood Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 454 m
  • Jackman Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 464 m
  • Chester Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 590 m
  • Holy Name Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 609 m
  • Frankland Community SchoolEnglish Public · 620 m
  • and 15 more
Parks (22)
  • Agnes Macphail Square334 m
  • Carlaw Avenue Parkette408 m
  • Logan Green Field426 m
  • Logan Avenue Parkette472 m
  • Westwood Park524 m
  • Langford Parkette645 m
  • and 16 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth branch571 m
  • Toronto Public Library Todmorden Room branch1 km
Places of interest
  • The Danforth Music HallPerforming Arts · 1 km
  • Todmorden Mills Heritage SiteLandmark · 1 km
  • Evergreen Brick WorksAttraction · 1.3 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 9 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 205 — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Oliver Coffee Bar, 200 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2025 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés9 within 300 m · 205 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 37 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Serano Bakery · 830 Pape Avegrocery172 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Serano Food Market · 830 Pape Ave Unit-5grocery172 mPassed, Mar 2026
Storeasy Convenience & Grocery · 846 Pape Avegrocery193 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Oliver Coffee Bar · 852 Pape Ave, Unit-3200 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 1 infraction
Lorenzo's Pizzeria · 852 Pape Ave200 mPassed, Mar 2026
Oliver Coffee Bar · 852 Pape Ave Unit-3200 mPassed, Aug 2026
Hanamaru · 862 Pape Ave223 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction
Tzatziki Macchiato · 873 Pape Ave232 mPassed, Nov 2025

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 Withrow Park North Washroom, 798 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 440 m away at Logan Green Field.

  • Withrow Park North Washroom · 725 Logan Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    798 m
  • Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 725 Logan Ave
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    909 m
Drinking water
Logan Green Field bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 440 m; Logan Avenue Parkette drinking fountain, dog fountain · 455 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

16 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,644 spaces; 11 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Broad View French Montessori School (290 m, 33 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km16 centres · 1,644 spaces
Fee subsidy11 of 16
  • Broad View French Montessori School · 903 Pape Ave
    33 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    290 m
  • Jackman Community Daycare · 79 Jackman Ave
    242 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    464 m
  • Play Loft · 583 Danforth Ave
    122 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · $10-a-day
    515 m
  • Chester Jr YMCA · 115 Gowan Ave
    161 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    590 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 322 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 55 Division (3.0 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.1 km away.

FireFire Station 322 · 1.1 km256 Cosburn Ave
Police55 Division · 3 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 41 · 1.1 km1300 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 74 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 5,253 rental units, 3.2× the median for a Toronto intersection — six social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 768 Pape Ave (291 m, 15 units, 3 storeys, built 1990), which scored 73 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 74 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 127 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 51 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings74 · 5,253 units · 6 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026127 across the 74
Open fire-code violations51
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
768 Pape Ave153199073 · Nov 20250291 m
796 Carlaw Ave314192290 · Sep 20241437 m
160 Floyd Ave123195277 · Jul 20251544 m
156 Floyd Avesocial housing · Affordable Property Management Inc416199293 · Oct 20250546 m
135 Sammon Ave · Town & Country Property Managers113195694 · Dec 20250590 m
130 Gowan Ave · Greenwin Inc16012196898 · Jun 20247 · 2 fire642 m
100 Gowan Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc.12117196697 · Jun 20254643 m
80 Gowan Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc8811196894 · Aug 20242644 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 lots460 lots · ≈12,250 spaces · 36.7 ha
Within 500 m28 lots · ≈730 spaces
Green P (public)18 car parks · about 683 spaces
EV charging (City)14 Arundel Ave. · 509 m · 8 Level 2 ports
Bike parking7 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 64 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
25 Ferrier Ave · Surface412 m4682% (Q1 2026)
77 Gough Ave · Surface415 m1783% (Q1 2026)
18 Ferrier Ave · Surface417 m2358% (Q1 2026)
716 Pape Ave · Surface437 m7475% (Q1 2026)
20 Eaton Avenue · Surface502 m70 *

Nearest lots: 182 m away, ≈29 spaces; 188 m away, ≈15 spaces; 200 m away, ≈5 spaces; 217 m away, ≈14 spaces; 236 m away, ≈136 spaces; 249 m away, ≈5 spaces. More EV charging: 41 FULTON AVE (530 m, 2 ports); 35 Erindale Ave (919 m, 10 ports); 503 Jones Ave (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, May 10, 2018

No single direction dominates: each approach carried between 821 and 878 vehicles. Most cyclists arrived from the north (44 of 76). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 290 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m., 27% above the afternoon peak from 4:00 p.m. (228). Heavy vehicles made up 1.1% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 8 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2018, 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 north821southbound · 44 bikes · 1.1% heavy
From the west878eastbound · 30 bikes · 1.0% heavy
Total vehicles1,699464 pedestrians · 76 cyclists · 1.1% heavy
From the east0westbound · 2 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour290 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour228 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · May 10, 2018

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 Carlaw Ave between Dilworth Cres and Mortimer Ave, 245 m from the corner, a 3-day count in September 2001 put the average speed at 31 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 38 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 42 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,800 vehicles a day. The reading is 25 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 2 speed humps slow traffic on Browning Avenue between Carlaw Ave and Pape Ave, and 1 more calmed segment ends here.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Carlaw Ave · Dilworth Cres – Mortimer Ave · 245 mSep 2001 · 3 days1,84431 km/h38 km/h42 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Browning Avenue · Carlaw Ave – Pape Ave
    2 speed humps
  • Browning Avenue · Broadview Ave – Carlaw Ave
    8 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 2 collisions. 2 collisions (22%) involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (22%). The most recent report on file is from Sep 19, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions9#4385 of 5,508
With an injury2#3641 of 4,660
Property damage only4
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian1#2290 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist1#1652 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
All since 201410latest Sep 19, 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

Four thefts from vehicles and seven bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.1 a year. 71% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle430house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft700house driveway/garage (5), other (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jan 31, 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 Playter Estates-Danforth.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Carlaw & Browning a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 Carlaw & Browning?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from May 10, 2018, 18% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Carlaw & Browning?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Carlaw Ave between Dilworth Cres and Mortimer Ave (September 2001), found an average of 31 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 38 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Carlaw & Browning?

The nearest Green P car park is 25 Ferrier Ave (412 m away, 46 spaces, 82% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 460 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 12,250 spaces — 28 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 14 Arundel Ave. (509 m).

How do I get to Carlaw & Browning by transit?

Pape Station (Line 2) is 422 m away; streetcar routes 504, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 1.0 km away; bus routes 72, 100, 62, 8, 25, 87, 83, 51 and 1 more within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Carlaw & Browning?

9 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 205 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Oliver Coffee Bar (200 m), Lorenzo's Pizzeria (200 m), Oliver Coffee Bar (200 m), Hanamaru (223 m) and Tzatziki Macchiato (232 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 Carlaw & Browning?

The nearest is Withrow Park North Washroom, 725 Logan Ave, 798 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Withrow Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (909 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 Carlaw & Browning?

16 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,644 spaces in total; 11 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Broad View French Montessori School (290 m, 33 spaces), Jackman Community Daycare (464 m, 242 spaces) and Play Loft (515 m, 122 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Carlaw & Browning?

74 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 5,253 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 768 Pape Ave (291 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 73), 796 Carlaw Ave (437 m, 31 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 160 Floyd Ave (544 m, 12 units, RentSafeTO score 77) and 156 Floyd Ave (546 m, 41 units, RentSafeTO score 93). The average RentSafeTO score across the 74 is 89 out of 100; 3 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 Carlaw & Browning?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and seven 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 Playter Estates-Danforth page.

What neighbourhood is Carlaw & Browning in?

Carlaw & Browning is in Playter Estates-Danforth (City of Toronto neighbourhood 067). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Sources

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