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Dewhurst & Sammon

Dewhurst Blvd N & Sammon Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Danforth East York · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth

In Danforth East York, Dewhurst & Sammon is a lightly travelled intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has a park at the corner. Nearby: Donlands Station (Line 2) 536 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
402
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 16, 2020
188 pedestrians · 142 cyclists
Collisions
2
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 1 property damage · #5416 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Donlands Station 536 m · 7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 50 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 4% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 2.1 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 35.3% of vehicle volume, about 46× the typical share. On average 0.2 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Dewhurst & Sammon

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Donlands Station (Line 2)536 m; Pape Station (Line 2)651 m; Greenwood Station (Line 2)850 m
TTC bus
516272100838731 nearest 151 m
Blue Night
325322300
Nearest stops
11 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Fulton Ave / Pape Ave 482 m · 19 docks · 12 stations, 208 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 (22)
  • Wilkinson Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 498 m
  • Holy Cross Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 505 m
  • Centennial College School - Carlaw CampusCollege · 603 m
  • Danforth Collegiate & Greenwood Secondary SchoolEnglish Public · 661 m
  • Westwood Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 775 m
  • Kapapamahchakwew - Wandering Spirit School & Subway Academy OneEnglish Public · 804 m
  • and 16 more
Parks (28)
  • Aldwych Park53 m
  • Agnes Macphail Square495 m
  • 24 Dewhurst Boulevard Park539 m
  • Langford Parkette558 m
  • Gamble Playground770 m
  • Carlaw Avenue Parkette819 m
  • and 22 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth branch804 m
  • Toronto Public Library Todmorden Room branch938 m
  • Toronto Public Library S. Walter Stewart branch1.2 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; 152 eating places are within a kilometre — 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Eskimo Breeze, 325 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 152 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 37 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Eskimo Breeze · 263 Donlands Ave325 mPassed, May 2026
Number One Chinese Restaurant · 897 Pape Ave429 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 2 infractions
Goat Coffee Co. · 893 Pape Ave433 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Shopping Basket · 299 Donlands Ave436 mPassed, Oct 2025
Gianni's Pasta · 877 Pape Ave440 mPassed, Aug 2025
King's Drive-In · 919 Pape Ave443 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 5 infractions
Tzatziki Macchiato · 873 Pape Ave444 mPassed, Nov 2025
Hanamaru · 862 Pape Ave479 mPassed, Jul 2026 · 1 infraction

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 Dieppe Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 853 m away — currently listed as closed (closed for the season); in season it is View outdoor rink hours. A drinking fountain is 72 m away at Aldwych Park.

  • Dieppe Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 455 Cosburn Ave
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Closed for the Season
    853 m
  • Dieppe Park Washroom · 455 Cosburn Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    895 m
  • East York Community Centre Washroom · 1081 Pape Ave
    View centre hours
    939 m
Drinking water
Aldwych Park drinking fountain · 72 m; Langford Parkette bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 558 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

15 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,608 spaces; 11 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Broad View French Montessori School (435 m, 33 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km15 centres · 1,608 spaces
Fee subsidy11 of 15
  • Broad View French Montessori School · 903 Pape Ave
    33 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    435 m
  • Dandylion Childcare Centre · 53 Donlands Ave
    280 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    498 m
  • Network Childcare Services - Holy Cross · 299a Donlands Ave
    99 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    505 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Metamorphosis Child Care Centre · 40 Donlands Ave
    39 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    532 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 322 (616 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (2.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 857 m away.

FireFire Station 322 · 616 m256 Cosburn Ave
Police55 Division · 2.7 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceEMS TRAINING/TFD Stn 323 · 857 m153 Chatham 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

64 registered apartment buildings with 4,566 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, ten of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 135 Sammon Ave (86 m, 11 units, 3 storeys, built 1956), which scored 94 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 114 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 46 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings64 · 4,566 units · 10 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026114 across the 64
Open fire-code violations46
Tallest21 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
135 Sammon Ave · Town & Country Property Managers113195694 · Dec 2025086 m
280 Sammon Ave344195571 · Sep 20240379 m
266 Donlands AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation2548198694 · Jun 20240465 m
270 Donlands Avesocial housing · Woodgreen Community Services448201298 · Aug 20263513 m
325 Sammon Ave · Brayden Irwin263195094 · Jul 20252547 m
205 Cosburn Ave · Ranee Management16012196788 · Jul 20267547 m
225 Cosburn Ave · Ranee Management958196589 · Jul 20240555 m
185 Cosburn Ave · Golden Equity Properties376196070 · Jul 20262560 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 lots515 lots · ≈14,350 spaces · 43.1 ha
Within 500 m20 lots · ≈250 spaces
Green P (public)17 car parks · about 639 spaces
EV charging (City)132 Chatham Ave · 795 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
31 Langford Ave · Surface544 m2761% (Q1 2026)
12 Woodycrest Ave · Surface575 m3543% (Q1 2026)
17 Eaton Ave · Surface617 m3065% (Q1 2026)
20 Eaton Avenue · Surface647 m70 *
716 Pape Ave · Surface715 m7475% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 90 m away, ≈11 spaces; 121 m away, ≈4 spaces; 141 m away, ≈6 spaces; 190 m away, ≈5 spaces; 283 m away, ≈10 spaces; 366 m away, ≈15 spaces. More EV charging: 503 Jones Ave (948 m, 2 ports); 453 Jones Ave (1.1 km, 2 ports); 14 Arundel Ave. (1.1 km, 8 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, Sep 16, 2020

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The east leg carries the load — 197 westbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 82. Most cyclists arrived from the east (75 of 142). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 66 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 22% above the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. (54). Heavy vehicles made up 3.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 6 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2020, 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 north82southbound · 26 bikes · 3.7% heavy
From the west123eastbound · 41 bikes · 3.3% heavy
Total vehicles402188 pedestrians · 142 cyclists · 3.5% heavy
From the east197westbound · 75 bikes · 3.6% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour54 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour66 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Sep 16, 2020

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 counter on Sammon Ave between Marlow Ave and Wiley Ave (281 m away) recorded an average of 28 km/h in its 3-day count in August 2020; 85% of drivers were at or under 35 km/h. That segment carries about 1,000 vehicles a day. The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Donlands Ave (385 m away, 40 km/h limit), 3.6% of the 182,733 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Sammon Ave · Marlow Ave – Wiley Ave · 281 mAug 2020 · 3 days1,02328 km/h35 km/h39 km/h

School-zone speed sign 385 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct37 · 45 km/h
Over the limit14%
50 km/h or more3.6%

Donlands Ave (northbound), 285 Donlands Avenue · 182,733 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

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 peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 1 collision. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 50% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Oct 5, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions2#5416 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only1
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 20142latest Oct 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

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

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2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100other (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 13, 2019. 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 Danforth East York.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Dewhurst & Sammon a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 2 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 Dewhurst & Sammon?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Sep 16, 2020, 4% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Dewhurst & Sammon?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Sammon Ave between Marlow Ave and Wiley Ave (August 2020), found an average of 28 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 35 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 385 m away (40 km/h), 3.6% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Dewhurst & Sammon?

The nearest Green P car park is 31 Langford Ave (544 m away, 27 spaces, 61% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 515 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 14,350 spaces — 20 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 132 Chatham Ave (795 m).

How do I get to Dewhurst & Sammon by transit?

Donlands Station (Line 2) is 536 m away; bus routes 51, 62, 72, 100, 83, 87, 31 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Dewhurst & Sammon?

None within 300 m, and 152 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Eskimo Breeze (325 m), Number One Chinese Restaurant (429 m), Goat Coffee Co. (433 m), Shopping Basket (436 m) and Gianni's Pasta (440 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 Dewhurst & Sammon?

The nearest is Dieppe Park Outdoor Rink Washroom, 455 Cosburn Ave, 853 m away (View outdoor rink hours). The City currently lists it as closed: closed for the season. Next nearest: Dieppe Park Washroom (895 m); East York Community Centre Washroom (939 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 Dewhurst & Sammon?

15 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,608 spaces in total; 11 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Broad View French Montessori School (435 m, 33 spaces), Dandylion Childcare Centre (498 m, 280 spaces) and Network Childcare Services - Holy Cross (505 m, 99 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Dewhurst & Sammon?

64 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,566 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 135 Sammon Ave (86 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 280 Sammon Ave (379 m, 34 units, RentSafeTO score 71), 266 Donlands Ave (465 m, 254 units, RentSafeTO score 94) and 270 Donlands Ave (513 m, 44 units, RentSafeTO score 98). The average RentSafeTO score across the 64 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 Dewhurst & Sammon?

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 Danforth East York page.

What neighbourhood is Dewhurst & Sammon in?

Dewhurst & Sammon is in Danforth East York (City of Toronto neighbourhood 059). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Sources

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