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Cherry & Unwin

Cherry St & Unwin Ave · Toronto, Ontario · South Riverdale · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

Cherry & Unwin, in South Riverdale, is a low-volume local intersection. At the corner: a multi-use trail.

Traffic volume
3,008
vehicles · 14-hour count, Feb 26, 2026
119 pedestrians · 33 cyclists · #2144 busiest
Collisions
68
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
11 with an injury · 38 property damage · #1618 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Trail
Multi-Use Trail
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 210 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 19% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 25 vehicles — this is a car-dominated crossing (median: one per 13). On average 6.8 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 22.6 per 10,000 counted vehicles, 4.6× the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions fell 16%, from 37 in 2016–2020 to 31 in 2021–2025. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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Cherry & Unwin

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
202114 nearest 14 m
Nearest stops
3 surface stops within 300 m — Cherry St at Unwin Ave; Cherry St at Unwin Ave North Side
Cycling
Multi-Use Trail on Unwin Ave installed 2023; Multi-Use Trail on Martin Goodman / Waterfront Trl installed 2001
Bike Share
Cherry Beach 178 m · 49 docks · 9 stations, 224 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
none within 1.5 km
Parks (6)
  • Cherry Beach Sports Fields454 m
  • Cherry Beach Clarke Beach Park611 m
  • Jennifer Kateryna Koval's'kyj Park725 m
  • Biidaasige Park875 m
  • Toronto Islands - Ward's Island Park1.2 km
  • Aitken Place Park1.4 km
Places of interest
  • Cherry Beach/ Clarke Beach ParkNature/ Park · 322 m
  • Polson PierLandmark · 751 m
  • Ward's Island BeachNature/ Park · 1.1 km
  • Soulpepper Theatre CompanyPerforming Arts · 1.4 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 12 eating places are within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Enterprise 2000, 435 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 0 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Enterprise 2000 · 176 Cherry St435 mPassed, Jun 2026
Stella Borealis · 176 Cherry St Unit-36435 mPassed, Jun 2026
Spike's Snack Bar · 176 Cherry St436 mPassed, Jun 2024 · 2 infractions
Kotowski, B. - Toronto Plate No. 04603 (Hot Dog Cart) · Polson 18 None544 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
River Gambler · 176 Cherry St565 mPassed, May 2026
M. Jafari (Hot Dog Cart) · 11 Polson St685 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
M. Jafari - Toronto Plate No. 01631 (Hot Dog Cart) · 11 Polson St685 mPassed, Mar 2026
Mehdi Jafari - Toronto Plate No. 01632 (Hot Dog Cart) · 11 Polson St685 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions

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 Cherry Beach Clarke Beach Park Washroom, 309 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 467 m away at Cherry Beach Sports Fields (currently off).

  • Cherry Beach Clarke Beach Park Washroom · 1 Cherry St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    309 m
  • Cherry Beach Sports Fields Washroom · 275 Unwin Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    472 m
  • Old Fire Hall 30 Park Washroom · 31 Commissioners St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    796 m
Drinking water
Cherry Beach Sports Fields bottle filling station · 467 m · off; Cherry Beach Sports Fields bottle filling station · 478 m · off

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

No licensed child care centre within 1 km.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 335 (1.8 km), the nearest police station 51 Division (1.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.8 km away.

FireFire Station 335 · 1.8 km235 Cibola Ave
Police51 Division · 1.9 km51 Parliament Street
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 59 · 1.8 km235 Cibola Ave

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots175 lots · ≈26,440 spaces · 79.3 ha
Within 500 m16 lots · ≈9,860 spaces
Green P (public)11 car parks · about 1,636 spaces
EV charging (City)51 Dockside Dr. · 1.6 km · 5 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
115 Unwin Avenue · Surface465 m123 *
70 Distillery Lane · Garage1.5 km103 *
51 Dockside Dr · Garage1.6 km30619% (Q1 2026)
40 Rolling Mills Rd. · Garage1.7 km25 *
31A Parliament Street · Surface1.7 km230 *

Nearest lots: 43 m away, ≈21 spaces; 48 m away, ≈48 spaces; 70 m away, ≈363 spaces; 76 m away, ≈109 spaces; 89 m away, ≈38 spaces; 105 m away, ≈167 spaces. More EV charging: 51 Dockside Dr (1.6 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 — 14-hour, Feb 26, 2026

Traffic is heaviest from the north: 1,425 southbound vehicles entered from that leg, 47% of the total, against 394 from the west. Evening rush dominates here: 283 vehicles in the peak hour from 2:45 p.m., against 247 in the morning peak from 9:30 a.m. Trucks and buses were 35.1% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.

From the north1,425southbound · 9 bikes · 33.6% heavy
From the west394eastbound · 2 bikes · 21.1% heavy
Total vehicles3,008119 pedestrians · 33 cyclists · 35.1% heavy
From the east744westbound · 2 bikes · 64.8% heavy
From the south445northbound · 20 bikes · 2.9% heavy
AM peak hour247 vehicles from 9:30 a.m.
PM peak hour283 vehicles from 2:45 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

On Unwin Ave between Martin Goodman Trl and Cherry Beach Sports Fields Trl, 148 m from the corner, a 3-day count in February 2026 put the average speed at 31 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 40 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 47 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,800 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Cherry St · Unwin Ave – Polson St · 126 mJun 2011 · 3 days9,493
Unwin Ave · Martin Goodman Trl – Cherry Beach Sports Fields Trl · 148 mFeb 2026 · 3 days1,75431 km/h40 km/h47 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 2023, with 10 collisions; 2025 recorded 5. 11 collisions (16%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 22 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 32% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 6 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. The most recent report on file is from Aug 6, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 22.6 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions68#1618 of 5,508
With an injury11#1639 of 4,660
Property damage only38
Fail to remain22
Involving a pedestrian1#3096 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist5#493 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified19
All since 201475latest Aug 6, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Aug 12, 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

12 thefts from vehicles and four bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 2.7× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 6 in 2023–2025, about 2.0 a year, against 1.4 a year before that. 75% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots. Since January 2026, 1 more has been reported, the latest on Feb 19, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1251street/outdoor (9), other (3)
Bicycle theft410street/outdoor (3), commercial premises (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Feb 19, 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 South Riverdale.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Cherry & Unwin a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 68 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 Cherry & Unwin?

A low-volume local intersection. It ranks #2144 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 19% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Cherry & Unwin?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Unwin Ave between Martin Goodman Trl and Cherry Beach Sports Fields Trl (February 2026), found an average of 31 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 40 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Cherry & Unwin?

The nearest Green P car park is 115 Unwin Avenue (465 m away, 123 spaces). The City's mapping shows 175 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 26,440 spaces — 16 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 51 Dockside Dr. (1.6 km).

How do I get to Cherry & Unwin by transit?

Bus routes 202, 114 within 1 km (nearest stop: Cherry St at Unwin Ave, 14 m).

What restaurants are near Cherry & Unwin?

None within 300 m, and 12 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Enterprise 2000 (435 m), Stella Borealis (435 m), Spike's Snack Bar (436 m), Kotowski, B. - Toronto Plate No. 04603 (Hot Dog Cart) (544 m) and River Gambler (565 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 Cherry & Unwin?

The nearest is Cherry Beach Clarke Beach Park Washroom, 1 Cherry St, 309 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Cherry Beach Sports Fields Washroom (472 m); Old Fire Hall 30 Park Washroom (796 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.

How many thefts are reported at Cherry & Unwin?

Toronto Police place 12 thefts from vehicles and four 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 South Riverdale page.

What neighbourhood is Cherry & Unwin in?

Cherry & Unwin is in South Riverdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 070). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Sources

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