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Charles & St Thomas

Charles St W & St Thomas St · Toronto, Ontario · Bay-Cloverhill · Ward 11, University-Rosedale · Bloor-Yorkville BIA

In Bay-Cloverhill, in central Toronto, Charles & St Thomas is a low-volume local intersection, with significant cycling traffic. At the corner: Bay Station and a school within 250 m. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
2,661
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 18, 2007
745 pedestrians · 139 cyclists
Collisions
22
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 16 property damage · #3304 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
Bay Station
subway station within 250 m
1 streetcar route · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 20 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 330 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 29% 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 5.2% of vehicle volume, about 6.7× the typical share. That comes with about 2.2 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — roughly the median for a Toronto intersection. Collisions fell 31%, from 13 in 2016–2020 to 9 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Charles & St Thomas

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Bay Station (Line 2)244 m; Museum Station (Line 1)252 m; Yonge Station (Line 2)454 m; Bloor Station (Line 1)467 m; Wellesley Station (Line 1)566 m; St George Station (Line 1, Line 2)608 m; Queen's Park Station (Line 1)818 m; Rosedale Station (Line 1)924 m; College Station (Line 1)927 m
Streetcar
506 nearest 511 m
TTC bus
1913979426 nearest 122 m
Blue Night
306300320
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Bay St / Charles St W - SMART 122 m · 20 docks · 52 stations, 1,085 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 (50)
  • Rosedale Day SchoolPrivate · 187 m
  • Toronto School of Theology - U of T, Bldg 434University · 354 m
  • Career Quest - TorontoPrivate · 382 m
  • St Joseph's College SchoolEnglish Separate · 405 m
  • The Shire SchoolPrivate · 556 m
  • Humber College - International Graduate SchoolCollege · 563 m
  • and 44 more
Community centres
Parks (58)
  • Village of Yorkville Park256 m
  • Clover Hill Park266 m
  • St. Mary Street Parkette280 m
  • Queen's Park398 m
  • George Hislop Park440 m
  • Norman Jewison Park472 m
  • and 52 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Yorkville branch468 m
  • Toronto Public Library Toronto Reference Library branch537 m
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Isabel Bader TheatrePerforming Arts · 188 m
  • Gardiner MuseumMuseum · 223 m
  • Village of Yorkville ParkNature/ Park · 257 m
  • Royal Ontario MuseumMuseum · 355 m
  • CAA Theatre (formerly Panasonic Theatre)Performing Arts · 376 m
  • The Japan FoundationMuseum · 448 m
  • Royal Conservatory of MusicPerforming Arts · 476 m
  • Koerner Hall (at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning)Performing Arts · 483 m

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 56 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 7 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 373 — 5.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Enigma Fine Dining, 111 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés56 within 300 m · 373 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience7 within 300 m · 27 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Dessert Lady Cafe & Bakery · 7 St Thomas St Unit-105grocery60 mPassed, Apr 2026
New Yorker Deli · 1140 Bay St Unit-2grocery110 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Enigma Fine Dining · 23 St Thomas St Unit-1111 mPassed, Apr 2026
Aroma Espresso Bar · 55 Charles St W113 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Windsor Arms Hotel · 18 St Thomas St115 mPassed, May 2026 · 4 infractions
Imperfect Fresh Eats · 1108 Bay St119 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Subway · 1102 Bay St127 mPassed, Mar 2026
Tim Hortons · 1170 Bay St144 mPassed, Apr 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 Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 933 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 243 m away at Clover Hill Park.

  • Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    933 m
  • Ramsden Park Washroom · 1020 Yonge St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    1 km
Drinking water
Clover Hill Park bottle filling station · 243 m; Village of Yorkville Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 246 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

12 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 723 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is University of Toronto Childcare On Charles (234 m, 73 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km12 centres · 723 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 12
  • University of Toronto Childcare On Charles · 35 Charles St W
    73 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    234 m
  • Jesse Ketchum Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 7 Berryman St
    26 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    641 m
  • YMCA Child Development Centre (YMCA) · 15 Breadalbane St
    144 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    652 m
  • University of Toronto Early Learning Centre - O.i.s.e. · 252 Bloor St W
    26 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    669 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 312 (457 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 790 m away.

FireFire Station 312 · 457 m34 Yorkville Ave
Police52 Division · 1.5 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 45 · 790 m135 Davenport Rd

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 97 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 12,762 rental units, 4.2× the median for a Toronto intersection — nine social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 2 St Thomas St (35 m, 248 units, 26 storeys, built 2017), which scored 96 out of 100 at its October 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 97 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 277 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 100 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings97 · 12,762 units · 9 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026277 across the 97
Open fire-code violations100
Tallest51 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
2 St Thomas St · Bentallgreenoak24826201796 · Oct 2025635 m
57 Charles St W · Quadreal Property Group25021197789 · Oct 2025071 m
8 St Thomas St · Bentallgreenoak164192689 · Aug 2026076 m
55 Charles St W · Azuria Group Incorporated14732198183 · Oct 20253113 m
1101 Bay St · Bentallgreenoak26528197987 · Jun 20261 · 6 fire160 m
131 Bloor St W · Morguard Corporation15714196390 · Sep 20263187 m
44 Charles St W · Jll79351197291 · Aug 202412194 m
25 St Mary St · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.26025196592 · Jul 20242 · 4 fire268 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 lots1,009 lots · ≈23,940 spaces · 71.8 ha
Within 500 m42 lots · ≈1,070 spaces
Green P (public)25 car parks · about 5,447 spaces
EV charging (City)74 Yorkville Ave · 373 m · 8 Level 2 + 1 fast ports
Bike parking122 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 72 bikes within 600 m · City Hall - Nathan Phillips Square bike station (1.8 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
74 Yorkville Ave · Garage368 m17575% (Q1 2026)
20 Charles St E · Garage438 m64618% (Q1 2026)
13 Isabella St · Surface458 m3073% (Q1 2026)
9 Bedford Rd · Garage554 m37151% (Q1 2026)
15 Wellesley St E · Surface644 m12654% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 55 m away, ≈17 spaces; 77 m away, ≈27 spaces; 88 m away, ≈4 spaces; 127 m away, ≈2 spaces; 129 m away, ≈10 spaces; 146 m away, ≈41 spaces. More EV charging: 20 Charles St E. (440 m, 23 ports); 9 Wellesley St W. (551 m, 8 ports); 19 Spadina Rd (1.1 km, 6 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, Oct 18, 2007

Traffic is heaviest from the east: 2,017 westbound vehicles entered from that leg, 76% of the total, against 644 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the east (85 of 139). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 367 vehicles in the hour from 7:45 a.m. and 394 from 2:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 19 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2007, 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 north644southbound · 24 bikes · 4.0% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 30 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles2,661745 pedestrians · 139 cyclists · 3.8% heavy
From the east2,017westbound · 85 bikes · 3.7% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour367 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour394 vehicles from 2:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 18, 2007

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 Charles St W between St Thomas St and Queen's Park, 131 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2025 put the average speed at 23 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 33 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 37 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,400 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Charles St W · St Thomas St – Queen's Park · 131 mApr 2025 · 3 days1,41323 km/h33 km/h37 km/h

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 worst year was 2016, with 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 3. 3 collisions (14%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 18% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 2 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Dec 5, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions22#3304 of 5,508
With an injury3#3486 of 4,660
Property damage only16
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian2#2014 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
All since 201422latest Dec 5, 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

Seven thefts from vehicles and 12 bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 3.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 4 in 2023–2025, about 1.3 a year, against 2.1 a year before that. 86% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 50% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Mar 31, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle710street/outdoor (6), school/campus (1)
Bicycle theft1231apartment parking (6), street/outdoor (4)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Mar 31, 2026. 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 Bay-Cloverhill.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Charles & St Thomas a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 22 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 Charles & St Thomas?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 18, 2007, 29% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Charles & St Thomas?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Charles St W between St Thomas St and Queen's Park (April 2025), found an average of 23 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 33 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Charles & St Thomas?

The nearest Green P car park is 74 Yorkville Ave (368 m away, 175 spaces, 75% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 1,009 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,940 spaces — 42 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 74 Yorkville Ave (373 m).

How do I get to Charles & St Thomas by transit?

Bay Station (Line 2) is 244 m away; streetcar route 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 511 m away; bus routes 19, 13, 97, 94, 26 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Charles & St Thomas?

56 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 373 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Enigma Fine Dining (111 m), Aroma Espresso Bar (113 m), Windsor Arms Hotel (115 m), Imperfect Fresh Eats (119 m) and Subway (127 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 Charles & St Thomas?

The nearest is Ramsden Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 1020 Yonge St, 933 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Ramsden Park Washroom (1.0 km). 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 Charles & St Thomas?

12 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 723 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are University of Toronto Childcare On Charles (234 m, 73 spaces), Jesse Ketchum Early Learning & Child Care Centre (641 m, 26 spaces) and YMCA Child Development Centre (YMCA) (652 m, 144 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Charles & St Thomas?

97 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 12,762 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 2 St Thomas St (35 m, 248 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 57 Charles St W (71 m, 250 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 8 St Thomas St (76 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 55 Charles St W (113 m, 147 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 97 is 88 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 Charles & St Thomas?

Toronto Police place seven thefts from vehicles and 12 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025, plus 1 since January 2026. 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 Bay-Cloverhill page.

What neighbourhood is Charles & St Thomas in?

Charles & St Thomas is in Bay-Cloverhill (City of Toronto neighbourhood 169). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe. The corner falls inside the Bloor-Yorkville Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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