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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 · Nov 27, 2013
This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. The north leg carries the load — 3,043 southbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 254. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 969 vehicles in the hour from 4:15 p.m., 15% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (839). Trucks and buses were 17.3% 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 16,177 vehicles. The count is 13 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2013, 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.
Peak hours: 839 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 969 from 4:15 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
2021 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 9% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 36% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 9% of collisions here. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 26, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 11 | |
| With an injury | 1 | |
| Property damage only | 8 | |
| Fail to remain | 4 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 0 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 1 | |
| Severity not classified | 2 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 2 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
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 Dawes Rd between Beth St and Ferris Rd (115 m away) recorded an average of 48 km/h in its 24-hour count in May 2003; 85% of drivers were at or under 56 km/h. That segment carries about 13,800 vehicles a day. The reading is 23 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. Ferris Rd between Squires Ave and Youngmill Dr measured slower: 41 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 49 km/h (Sep 2005). At the school-zone speed sign on St Clair Ave E (324 m away, 50 km/h limit), 0.2% of the 63,621 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 60 km/h or more — almost none.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawes Rd · Beth St – Ferris Rd · 115 m | May 2003 · 24 h | 13,797 | 48 km/h | 56 km/h | 61 km/h |
| Ferris Rd · Squires Ave – Youngmill Dr · 268 m | Sep 2005 · 3 days | 841 | 41 km/h | 49 km/h | 55 km/h |
- Speed sign
- St Clair Ave E (eastbound), 324 m — 50 km/h zone. Median 40 km/h, 85th percentile 46 km/h; 0.2% at 60 km/h or more. 63,621 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
- TTC bus
- 24 23 404 8 67 nearest 37 m
- Express
- 924
- Blue Night
- 324
- Nearest stops
- 10 surface stops within 300 m — Victoria Park Ave at Dawes Rd South Side; Dawes Rd at Ferris Rd
- Cycling
- Bike Lane on Dawes Rd installed 2008
- Bike Share
- Victoria Park Ave / Dawes Rd 30 m · 19 docks · 3 stations, 49 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
- 2 car parks · about 324 spaces
- EV charging
- no City charger within 2 km
- Bike parking
- 3 post-and-rings within 300 m · Indoor bike station, 777 Victoria Park Ave (1.5 km)
- Other lots
- 31 mapped lots within 500 m, 261 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Main Lot - 777 Victoria Park Avenue · Surface | 1.6 km | 173 * | — |
| Warden South Lot - 701 Warden Ave · Surface | 1.8 km | 151 * | — |
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: No Frills is 266 m away. There are 7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m, and 37 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is St. Clair Bar & Grill, 151 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Glen George Pharmacy, 264 m away; 6 pharmacies are within a kilometre. The nearest hospital site is Providence Healthcare, 1.3 km away. South Riverdale Community Health Centre - Harmony Hall Active Living Centres runs a seniors' active living programme 663 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- St. Clair Bar & Grill · 1080 Victoria Park Ave151 m
- Gingerman Restaurant · 1104 Victoria Park Ave249 m
- Little Italy Pizza & Delights · 1093 Victoria Park Ave253 m · 3 min
- Seaport Merchants · 1101 Victoria Park Ave266 m · 3 min
- Shawarma N' Fries(Halal) · 1105 Victoria Park Ave271 m · 3 min
- Grocery
- No Frills 266 m · 3 min · 2 within 1 km
- Pharmacy
- Glen George Pharmacy 264 m · 3 min · 6 within 1 km
- Child care
- Dawes Road Centre For Early Learning · 80 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day531 m · 6 min
- Our Lady of Fatima YMCA · 71 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day612 m · 7 min
- Tiago Avenue Community Child Care · 41 spaces, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day806 m · 10 min
- Washrooms
- George Webster Park Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible928 m · 11 min
- Health and care
- Providence Healthcare · hospital site1.3 km · 16 min
- South Riverdale Community Health Centre - Harmony Hall Active Living Centres · seniors' active living centre663 m · 8 min
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 (9)
- Joshua Cronkwright Parkette353 m · 4 min
- Regents Park555 m · 7 min
- Jim McPherson Park780 m · 9 min
- Donora Park837 m · 10 min
- George Webster Park1 km · 12 min
- Schools (10)
- Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 612 m · 7 min
- Regent Heights Public SchoolEnglish Public · 752 m · 9 min
- Victoria Park Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 805 m · 10 min
- George Webster Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 886 m · 11 min
- Gordon A Brown Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km · 13 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Dawes Road branch539 m · 6 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.
Not within a walk: a community centre or a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
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
39 registered apartment buildings with 2,048 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.6× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 540 Dawes Rd (62 m, 43 units, 4 storeys, built 1959), which scored 91 out of 100 at its November 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 39 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 540 Dawes Rd · Olive Corp | 43 | 4 | 1959 | 91 · Nov 2025 | 62 m |
| 608 Dawes Rd | 84 | 6 | 1959 | 58 · Nov 2025 | 93 m |
| 1065 Victoria Park Ave · Menicucci, Mario; Menicucci, Iva; Menicucci, Pompilio; Menicucci, Frances | 37 | 6 | 1964 | 91 · Sep 2025 | 94 m |
| 1055 Victoria Park Ave · Kings College Management Limited | 52 | 6 | 1962 | 98 · Sep 2025 | 113 m |
| 1051 Victoria Park Ave | 12 | 3 | 1954 | 78 · Aug 2026 | 146 m |
| 1075 Victoria Park Ave · Sigma Canada Inc. | 18 | 3 | 1955 | 87 · Jul 2026 | 156 m |
39 registered buildings · 2,048 units · 2 social housing · tallest 14 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 two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 2 | 2 | 0 | apartment parking (1), street/outdoor (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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 O'Connor-Parkview.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Dawes & Ferris a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 11 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 Dawes & Ferris?
An intersection of typical volume at the City's last count here, in 2013. Its latest count is from Nov 27, 2013, 67% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Dawes & Ferris a walkable intersection?
Dawes & Ferris scores 47 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; 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: 1 grocery store within 300 m · 7 places to eat within 300 m; 10 stops within 300 m · 7 routes within 1 km; 1 park within 500 m.
How fast do cars go at Dawes & Ferris?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Dawes Rd between Beth St and Ferris Rd (May 2003), found an average of 48 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 56 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 324 m away (50 km/h), 0.2% of vehicles were doing 60 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Dawes & Ferris?
The nearest Green P car park is Victoria Main Lot - 777 Victoria Park Avenue (1.6 km away, 173 spaces). The City's mapping shows 261 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 20,220 spaces — 31 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.
How do I get to Dawes & Ferris by transit?
Bus routes 24, 23, 404, 8, 67, 924 within 1 km (nearest stop: Victoria Park Ave at Dawes Rd South Side, 37 m).
What restaurants are near Dawes & Ferris?
7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 37 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are St. Clair Bar & Grill (151 m), Gingerman Restaurant (249 m), Little Italy Pizza & Delights (253 m), Seaport Merchants (266 m) and Shawarma N' Fries(Halal) (271 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Dawes & Ferris?
The nearest is George Webster Park Washroom, 30 Chapman Ave, 928 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom.
Is there child care near Dawes & Ferris?
Four licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 340 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Dawes Road Centre For Early Learning (531 m, 80 spaces), Our Lady of Fatima YMCA (612 m, 71 spaces) and Tiago Avenue Community Child Care (806 m, 41 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Dawes & Ferris?
39 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,048 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 540 Dawes Rd (62 m, 43 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 608 Dawes Rd (93 m, 84 units, RentSafeTO score 58), 1065 Victoria Park Ave (94 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 1055 Victoria Park Ave (113 m, 52 units, RentSafeTO score 98). The average RentSafeTO score across the 39 is 88 out of 100; 2 scored below 70.
How many thefts are reported at Dawes & Ferris?
Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the O'Connor-Parkview page.
What neighbourhood is Dawes & Ferris in?
Dawes & Ferris is in O'Connor-Parkview (City of Toronto neighbourhood 054). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Nov 27, 2013.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 19 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network; Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.70632, -79.29542 · centreline node 13456915.