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Carlaw & Commissioners

Carlaw Ave & Commissioners St · Toronto, Ontario · South Riverdale · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

In South Riverdale, Carlaw & Commissioners is a moderately travelled crossing. It has a protected bikeway at the corner. Nearby: 4 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
8,613
vehicles · 14-hour count, Feb 26, 2026
342 pedestrians · 94 cyclists · #1808 busiest
Collisions
43
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 36 property damage · #2273 of 5,508 · +3 since Jan 2026
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
5
TTC stops within 100 m
3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track, Multi-Use Trail - Boulevard
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 620 vehicles, 53% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 25 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. Police have logged an average of 4.3 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 5.0 per 10,000 counted vehicles, in line with the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions fell 35%, from 26 in 2016–2020 to 17 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Carlaw & Commissioners

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
7211483 nearest 17 m
Blue Night
325
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m — Carlaw Ave at Commissioners St; Commissioners St at Carlaw Ave
Cycling
Cycle Track on Commissioners St installed 2021; Multi-Use Trail - Boulevard on Carlaw Ave installed 2021
Bike Share
25 Booth Ave 490 m · 24 docks · 8 stations, 142 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 (4)
  • Morse Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 918 m
  • Bruce Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Dundas Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.5 km
  • St Joseph Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.5 km
Community centres
Parks (19)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Queen/Saulter branch1.2 km
  • Toronto Public Library Jones branch1.5 km
Places of interest
  • Soulpepper Theatre CompanyPerforming Arts · 1.4 km
Signal
1843, activated 2000 · SA2 · leading pedestrian interval East/West

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 29 eating places within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Mayfair Bistro, 190 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in December 2025 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés2 within 300 m · 29 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 9 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Mayfair Bistro · 801 Lake Shore Blvd E190 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 1 infraction
Circle K · 805 Lake Shore Blvd Egrocery296 mPassed, Mar 2025 · 2 infractions
Tim Hortons · 805 Lake Shore Blvd E296 mPassed, Mar 2025
Cinq Foods · 11 Carlaw Ave Unit-#5grocery386 mPassed, Aug 2026
Nud Fud · 11 Carlaw Ave386 mPassed, May 2026
Roll This Way · 14 Logan Ave Unit-B438 mPassed, Apr 2026
Food Dudes · 24 Carlaw Avegrocery448 mPassed, Aug 2026
Agrarian Kitchen · 26 Logan Ave Unit-A495 mPassed, Aug 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 McCleary Park Washroom, 423 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 416 m away at McCleary Park.

  • McCleary Park Washroom · 755 Lake Shore Blvd E
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    423 m
  • Morse Street Playground Washroom · 76 Morse St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    561 m
Drinking water
McCleary Park drinking fountain · 416 m; McCleary Park bottle filling station · 419 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

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 343 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Woodgreen Community Services (Morse Child Care Centre) (918 m, 192 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km2 centres · 343 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 2
  • Woodgreen Community Services (Morse Child Care Centre) · 180 Carlaw Ave
    192 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    918 m
  • Bruce Woodgreen Early Learning Centre · 51 Larchmount Ave
    151 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    1 km

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 326 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 51 Division (2.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.2 km away.

FireFire Station 326 · 1.3 km30 Knox Ave
Police51 Division · 2.1 km51 Parliament Street
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 43 · 1.2 km126 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

Five registered apartment buildings with 257 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing — well below the median of 23. The nearest is 502 Eastern Ave (752 m, 19 units, 5 storeys, built 1989), which scored 91 out of 100 at its December 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 2 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings5 · 257 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20262 across the 5
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest5 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
502 Eastern Avesocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes195198991 · Dec 20250752 m
15 Pape Avesocial housing · YWCA775198890 · Nov 20251758 m
17 Renwick Cressocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.804199692 · Oct 20251880 m
55 Pape Avesocial housing · Woodgreen Community Housing Inc.605199688 · Aug 20240881 m
245-247 Logan Ave · Valour Management Inc.214192790 · Jun 202401 km

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 lots503 lots · ≈42,300 spaces · 126.9 ha
Within 500 m37 lots · ≈4,230 spaces
Green P (public)11 car parks · about 1,039 spaces
EV charging (City)500 Commissioners St · 332 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
115 Unwin Avenue · Surface1.3 km123 *
111 Broadview Ave · Surface1.4 km9256% (Q1 2026)
136 Broadview Ave · Surface1.4 km2273% (Q1 2026)
83 Tannery Road · Garage1.6 km27 *
40 Rolling Mills Rd. · Garage1.6 km25 *

Nearest lots: 55 m away, ≈17 spaces; 103 m away, ≈19 spaces; 116 m away, ≈93 spaces; 160 m away, ≈388 spaces; 184 m away, ≈48 spaces; 186 m away, ≈26 spaces. More EV charging: 220 Carlaw Ave. (1.1 km, 2 ports); 43 Alton Ave (1.5 km, 2 ports); 963 Gerrard St E (1.8 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 — 14-hour, Feb 26, 2026

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 3,403 westbound vehicles, or 40% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 2,199. Morning rush is the busier period: 838 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 698 from 2:30 p.m. Trucks and buses were 21.2% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north2,199southbound · 16 bikes · 17.1% heavy
From the west3,011eastbound · 36 bikes · 22.7% heavy
Total vehicles8,613342 pedestrians · 94 cyclists · 21.2% heavy
From the east3,403westbound · 28 bikes · 22.5% heavy
From the south0northbound · 14 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour838 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour698 vehicles from 2:30 p.m.
Count14-hour · Feb 26, 2026

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

The City's most recent midblock count on Commissioners St between Logan Ave and Carlaw Ave (104 m away, Apr 2013) recorded volume only — about 5,290 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Commissioners St · Logan Ave – Carlaw Ave · 104 mApr 2013 · 3 days5,290
Carlaw Ave · Lake Shore Blvd E – Lake Shore Blvd East Trl · 314 mMar 2014 · 3 days8,536

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

2019 was the peak year (10 collisions), and 2025 closed with 4. 9% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 7% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 2% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 29, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 5.0 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions43#2273 of 5,508
With an injury4#2905 of 4,660
Property damage only36
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#1668 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist2
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 201456latest Jun 29, 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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 10, 2021. 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 South Riverdale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Carlaw & Commissioners a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 43 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 & Commissioners?

A moderately travelled crossing. It ranks #1808 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 53% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Carlaw & Commissioners?

The nearest Green P car park is 115 Unwin Avenue (1.3 km away, 123 spaces). The City's mapping shows 503 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 42,300 spaces — 37 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 500 Commissioners St (332 m).

How do I get to Carlaw & Commissioners by transit?

Bus routes 72, 114, 83 within 1 km (nearest stop: Carlaw Ave at Commissioners St, 17 m).

What restaurants are near Carlaw & Commissioners?

2 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 29 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Mayfair Bistro (190 m), Tim Hortons (296 m), Nud Fud (386 m), Roll This Way (438 m) and Agrarian Kitchen (495 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 & Commissioners?

The nearest is McCleary Park Washroom, 755 Lake Shore Blvd E, 423 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Morse Street Playground Washroom (561 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 & Commissioners?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 343 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Woodgreen Community Services (Morse Child Care Centre) (918 m, 192 spaces) and Bruce Woodgreen Early Learning Centre (1.0 km, 151 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Carlaw & Commissioners?

Five RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 257 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 502 Eastern Ave (752 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 15 Pape Ave (758 m, 77 units, RentSafeTO score 90), 17 Renwick Cres (880 m, 80 units, RentSafeTO score 92) and 55 Pape Ave (881 m, 60 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 5 is 90 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.

How many thefts are reported at Carlaw & Commissioners?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no 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 South Riverdale page.

What neighbourhood is Carlaw & Commissioners in?

Carlaw & Commissioners is in South Riverdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 070). 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