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College & Robert

College St & Robert St · Toronto, Ontario · Kensington-Chinatown · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

College & Robert, in Kensington-Chinatown, in the downtown core, was a mid-volume intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it — that was the City's last count here, in 2022. It has a protected bikeway, a school within 250 m and a park at the corner. Nearby: 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic
8,221
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 20, 2022
2,968 pedestrians · 1,248 cyclists
Collisions
63
police-reported · 2016–2025
1 killed or seriously injured · #1720 of 5,519
Getting there
0
TTC stops within 100 m
10 routes within 1 km · protected bikeway
Within a walk
68/100
city median 48 · #960 of 5,672
69 places to eat within 300 m · grocery 58 m

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College & Robert

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 · Apr 20, 2022

Traffic is spread evenly across the approaches, from 3,961 vehicles entering from the west to 4,260 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the west (637 of 1,248). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,294 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 21% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (1,073). Heavy vehicles made up 3.7% 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 2022, 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 north0southbound · 40 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west3,961eastbound · 637 bikes · 3.8% heavy
Total vehicles8,2212,968 pedestrians · 1,248 cyclists · 3.7% heavy
From the east4,260westbound · 571 bikes · 3.6% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy

Peak hours: 1,073 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,294 from 4:45 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 9 collisions. 25% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 16 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 25% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 16% 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 1, 2026.

One collision in 2016–2025 left someone seriously injured; it was not fatal. 1 cyclist was among those hurt. It happened in daylight or lit conditions. The most recent was on Sep 15, 2022.

By year

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2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions63#1720 of 5,519
With an injury16#1098 of 4,669
Property damage only33
Fail to remain16
Involving a pedestrian2
Involving a cyclist8#192 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
Severity not classified14
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
Killed or seriously injured1
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#97 of 271
In darkness0
All KSI since 20061latest Sep 15, 2022

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 Robert St between College St and Grimsby Dairy Lane (17 m away) recorded an average of 17 km/h in its 24-hour count in April 2022; 85% of drivers were at or under 27 km/h. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Robert St (99 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.4% of the 14,121 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Robert St · College St – Grimsby Dairy Lane · 17 mApr 2022 · 24 h56317 km/h27 km/h32 km/h
Speed sign
Robert St (northbound), 99 m — 30 km/h zone. Median 16 km/h, 85th percentile 27 km/h; 0.4% at 40 km/h or more. 14,121 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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
506 510 511 505 nearest 115 m
TTC bus
94 13 nearest 701 m · 8 min
Blue Night
306 310 305 307
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Cycle Track on College St installed 2001
Bike Share
College St / Major St 136 m · 15 docks · 29 stations, 560 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
22 car parks · about 2,152 spaces
EV charging
74 Clinton Street · 1.1 km · 4 Level 2 ports; also 19 Spadina Rd (1.3 km), 10 Soho St. (1.4 km)
Bike parking
148 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 92 bikes within 600 m
Other lots
56 mapped lots within 500 m, 693 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
35 Bellevue Avenue · Surface574 m91 *—
20 St Andrew St · Garage649 m41727% (Q1 2026)
40 Larch St · Garage816 m33231% (Q1 2026)
205 Mc Caul St · Surface928 m3979% (Q1 2026)
4 Spadina Road · Surface1.1 km51 *—

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

You can do a shop on foot from here: T&t Supermarket is 58 m away. Three specialist food shops — butchers, bakeries and the like — sit within 300 m, the nearest Robert Street Cookies at 76 m. There are 69 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 358 eating places within a kilometre — 8.7× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Pizza Fresca, 20 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Royal Care Pharmacy, 54 m away, one of five within 300 m. The nearest hospital site is Kensington Eye Institute, 125 m away, then Toronto Western Hospital at 850 m. For seniors' housing: The Kensington Gardens, a long-term care home 184 m away. St. Stephen's Community House runs a seniors' active living programme 144 m away.

Restaurants & cafés
  • Pizza Fresca · 302 College St20 m
  • Freeplay · 300 College St24 m
  • Old.k Chicken Burgers · 310 College St31 m
  • Cha Ha Lo · 297 College St58 m
  • The Cups · 314 College St66 m
69 within 300 m · 358 within 1 km
Grocery
T&t Supermarket 58 m · 9 within 1 km
Food shops
Robert Street Cookies 76 m · 3 butchers, bakeries and food shops within 300 m
Convenience
3 convenience stores or gas bars within 300 m
Pharmacy
Royal Care Pharmacy 54 m · 12 within 1 km
Child care
  • The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care · 142 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day178 m
  • Westside Montessori School · 73 spaces, toddler, preschool276 m · 3 min
  • The Neighbourhood Group Bellevue Child Care · 34 spaces, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day354 m · 4 min
13 licensed centres · 1,015 spaces within 1 km · 9 accept City fee subsidy
Washrooms
  • Bellevue Square Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.559 m · 7 min
  • Harry R. Gairey Outdoor Rink Washroom · hours not listed · accessible · closed — Maintenance/Repairs1 km · 12 min
Drinking water: The Doctors' Parkette 206 m; Sonya's Park 319 m · 4 min (off)
Health and care
  • Kensington Eye Institute · hospital site125 m
  • Toronto Western Hospital · hospital site850 m · 10 min
  • The Kensington Gardens · long-term care home184 m
  • St. Stephen's Community House · seniors' active living centre144 m

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 (22)
  • The Doctors' Parkette193 m
  • Sonya's Park328 m · 4 min
  • Lillian H. Smith Park340 m · 4 min
  • Glasgow Street Parkette499 m · 6 min
  • Julius Deutsch Park526 m · 6 min
and 17 more within 1.5 km
Community centres
Schools (32)
  • Lord Lansdowne Jr Sr & Da VinciEnglish Public · 178 m
  • Westside Montessori Elementary SchoolPrivate · 276 m · 3 min
  • Braemar College Private Secondary SchoolPrivate · 358 m · 4 min
  • Kensington Community SchoolEnglish Public · 383 m · 5 min
  • King Edward Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Separate · 596 m · 7 min
and 27 more within 1.5 km
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Lillian H. Smith branch305 m · 4 min
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch1 km · 11 min
Places of interest
  • Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 570 m · 7 min
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 1.1 km · 13 min
  • Art Gallery of OntarioGallery · 1.2 km · 14 min
  • Art Museum at the University of TorontoGallery · 1.2 km · 15 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.

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Scored from the records above

The median Toronto intersection scores 48. This corner is #960 of 5,672. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.

  • Groceries and food28/30

    1 grocery store within 300 m · 69 places to eat within 300 m

  • Transit15/28

    10 stops within 300 m · 10 routes within 1 km

  • Library and places to go10/14

    library 305 m away · 8 places of interest within 1.5 km

  • Parks and recreation7/10

    4 parks within 500 m · nearest centre 0.9 km

  • Schools and child care8/8

    4 schools within 500 m · 4 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

21 registered apartment buildings with 1,333 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, seven of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 484 Spadina Ave (134 m, 166 units, 16 storeys, built 2021), which scored 99 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections.

Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreDistance
484 Spadina Ave · Fitzrovia Real Estate Inc16616202199 · Jun 2024134 m
99 Bellevue Ave · Fv Property Management164198872 · Jul 2026241 m
87 Bellevue Ave social housing · Homes First Society283188576 · Sep 2025346 m · 4 min
88 Oxford St · Turtledove Management114189575 · Jul 2026405 m · 5 min
34 Oxford St Toronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1895197989 · Aug 2025407 m · 5 min
162 Huron St · 1771105 Ontario Ltd184190397 · Jul 2026443 m · 5 min

21 registered buildings · 1,333 units · 7 social housing · tallest 24 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 29 thefts from vehicles and 40 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 12× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 27 in 2023–2025, about 9.0 a year, against 6.0 a year before that. 90% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 55% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle2930street/outdoor (26), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft40240street/outdoor (22), commercial premises (7)

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 Kensington-Chinatown.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is College & Robert a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 1 serious-injury collision was recorded in 2016–2025, out of 63 reported collisions of any severity. 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 College & Robert?

A mid-volume intersection at the City's last count here, in 2022. Its latest count is from Apr 20, 2022, about today's median for a counted intersection.

Is College & Robert a walkable intersection?

College & Robert scores 68 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure — #960 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: 4 schools within 500 m · 4 licensed child care within 500 m; 1 grocery store within 300 m · 69 places to eat within 300 m; library 305 m away · 8 places of interest within 1.5 km.

How fast do cars go at College & Robert?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Robert St between College St and Grimsby Dairy Lane (April 2022), found an average of 17 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 27 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 99 m away (30 km/h), 0.4% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in August 2026.

Where can I park near College & Robert?

The nearest Green P car park is 35 Bellevue Avenue (574 m away, 91 spaces). The City's mapping shows 693 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 15,600 spaces — 56 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 74 Clinton Street (1.1 km).

How do I get to College & Robert by transit?

Streetcar routes 506, 510, 511, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 115 m away; bus routes 94, 13 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near College & Robert?

69 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 358 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Pizza Fresca (20 m), Freeplay (24 m), Old.k Chicken Burgers (31 m), Cha Ha Lo (58 m) and The Cups (66 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near College & Robert?

The nearest is Bellevue Square Park Washroom, 5 Bellevue Ave, 559 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Harry R. Gairey Outdoor Rink Washroom (1.0 km).

Is there child care near College & Robert?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,015 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Neighbourhood Group Lord Lansdowne Child Care (178 m, 142 spaces), Westside Montessori School (276 m, 73 spaces) and The Neighbourhood Group Bellevue Child Care (354 m, 34 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near College & Robert?

21 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,333 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 484 Spadina Ave (134 m, 166 units, RentSafeTO score 99), 99 Bellevue Ave (241 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 72), 87 Bellevue Ave (346 m, 28 units, RentSafeTO score 76) and 88 Oxford St (405 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 75). The average RentSafeTO score across the 21 is 87 out of 100.

How many thefts are reported at College & Robert?

Toronto Police place 29 thefts from vehicles and 40 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Kensington-Chinatown page.

What neighbourhood is College & Robert in?

College & Robert is in Kensington-Chinatown (City of Toronto neighbourhood 078). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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