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Dewson & Shaw

Dewson St & Shaw St · Toronto, Ontario · Palmerston-Little Italy · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

In Palmerston-Little Italy, in central Toronto, Dewson & Shaw is a low-volume local intersection, with more people on foot than in cars and a well-used cycling route through it. It has a bike lane and a school within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: Ossington Station (Line 2) 758 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
908
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 15, 2005
1,009 pedestrians · 319 cyclists
Collisions
7
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 4 property damage · #4678 of 5,508 · +1 since Jan 2026
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
Ossington Station 758 m · 2 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 110 vehicles an hour, 10% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.1 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 35.1% of vehicle volume, about 45× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 0.7 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Dewson & Shaw

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Ossington Station (Line 2)758 m; Christie Station (Line 2)851 m
Streetcar
506505 nearest 228 m
TTC bus
6394161126 nearest 204 m
Blue Night
306305363300
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Dewson St installed 2020; Bike Lane - Contraflow on Shaw St installed 2001
Bike Share
Shaw St / College St 180 m · 11 docks · 26 stations, 511 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 (29)
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 172 m
  • Dewson Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 271 m
  • Montrose Jr & Delta Alternative SrEnglish Public · 284 m
  • Ossington Old Orchard Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 456 m
  • St Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 511 m
  • Pope Francis Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 556 m
  • and 23 more
Parks (27)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch178 m
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 1.1 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 37 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores, and 352 eating places within a kilometre — 4.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Wow Wings House, 177 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés37 within 300 m · 352 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 48 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Coast To Coast Seafood · 760 College Stgrocery176 mPassed, Jun 2025
Wow Wings House · 772 College St177 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
Casa Tropical Cafe · 774 College St181 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 2 infractions
The Daily Dumpling Wonton Co · 792 College St197 mPassed, Mar 2026
El Convento Rico Restaurant and Club · 750 College St200 mPassed, Apr 2024
Pizzaville · 796 College St200 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Tim Hortons · 745 College St204 mPassed, Jun 2026
The Axis Club · 722 College St205 mPassed, Jun 2025

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 Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom, 437 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 339 m away at Fred Hamilton Playground.

  • Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom · 155 Roxton Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    437 m
  • Bickford Park Washroom · 400 Grace St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    477 m
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    643 m
Drinking water
Fred Hamilton Playground drinking fountain · 339 m; Art Eggleton Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 341 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

16 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,381 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Dewson Street YMCA (271 m, 127 spaces, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km16 centres · 1,381 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 16
  • Dewson Street YMCA · 65 Concord Ave
    127 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    271 m
  • Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. · 301 Montrose Ave
    117 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    284 m
  • Lullaboo Childcare Center (College) · 860 College St
    149 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    336 m
  • West End Parents Day Care Satellite · 380 Ossington Ave
    112 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    456 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 315 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (717 m) and the nearest ambulance station 916 m away.

FireFire Station 315 · 1.3 km132 Bellevue Ave
Police14 Division · 717 m350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 916 m760 Dovercourt 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

38 registered apartment buildings with 1,901 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 805 College St (256 m, 72 units, 4 storeys, built 1929), which scored 92 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Four buildings of the 38 scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 45 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings38 · 1,901 units · 5 social housing
RentSafeTO score84 average · 4 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202645 across the 38
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
805 College St · Aykler Real Estate Inc.724192992 · Aug 20261256 m
677 College St323191288 · Sep 20241347 m
333 Harbord St · 1569625 Ontario Limited103191389 · Jun 20260350 m
46 Delaware Avesocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes143200783 · Jul 20251433 m
72 Clinton StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1577198991 · Oct 20252 · 2 fire494 m
11 Churchill Ave · Admp Property Management Inc.173195889 · Jul 20260557 m
410 Dovercourt Rd133193090 · Jul 20260596 m
34 Heydon Park Rd · Cogir Real Estate313192594 · Jul 20265636 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 lots840 lots · ≈21,490 spaces · 64.5 ha
Within 500 m31 lots · ≈540 spaces
Green P (public)30 car parks · about 2,270 spaces
EV charging (City)705 Shaw St · 530 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking103 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 48 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
157 Beatrice St · Surface426 m1864% (Q1 2026)
80 Clinton Street · Surface516 m25 *
74 Clinton Street · Garage524 m79 *
146 Harrison St · Surface744 m7968% (Q1 2026)
745 Ossington Ave · Surface747 m4667% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 156 m away, ≈26 spaces; 183 m away, ≈11 spaces; 200 m away, ≈8 spaces; 203 m away, ≈20 spaces; 229 m away, ≈3 spaces; 244 m away, ≈126 spaces. More EV charging: 74 Clinton Street (554 m, 4 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (683 m, 2 ports); 685 Dovercourt Rd (710 m, 2 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 15, 2005

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The north leg carries the load — 600 southbound vehicles, or 66% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 144. Most cyclists arrived from the north (174 of 319). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 147 vehicles in the hour from 4:00 p.m., 19% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (124). Heavy vehicles were a negligible share of traffic (0.4%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 21 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2005, 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 north600southbound · 174 bikes · 0.2% heavy
From the west144eastbound · 37 bikes · 1.4% heavy
Total vehicles9081,009 pedestrians · 319 cyclists · 0.4% heavy
From the east164westbound · 36 bikes · 0.6% heavy
From the south0northbound · 72 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour124 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour147 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Sep 15, 2005

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 Shaw St between Dewson St and Harbord St (139 m away) recorded an average of 28 km/h in its 3-day count in September 2021; 85% of drivers were at or under 34 km/h. That segment carries about 1,800 vehicles a day. Dewson St between Ossington Ave and Concord Ave measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 30 km/h (Sep 2025). The reading is 5 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Concord Ave (316 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.3% of the 32,260 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Shaw St · Dewson St – Harbord St · 139 mSep 2021 · 3 days1,77228 km/h34 km/h39 km/h
Dewson St · Ossington Ave – Concord Ave · 269 mSep 2025 · 3 days1,70723 km/h30 km/h34 km/h

School-zone speed sign 316 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct18 · 26 km/h
Over the limit1.4%
40 km/h or more0.3%

Concord Ave (northbound), 31 Concord Avenue · 32,260 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

2021 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 14% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 29% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 14% of collisions here. Since January 2026, 1 more collision has been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jan 27, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions7#4678 of 5,508
With an injury1#4202 of 4,660
Property damage only4
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#1727 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
Since January 2026 (outside the window)1
All since 201410latest Jan 27, 2026

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 three thefts from vehicles and three bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle310street/outdoor (3)
Bicycle theft300other (2), house driveway/garage (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Apr 12, 2025. 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 Palmerston-Little Italy.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Dewson & Shaw a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 7 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 Dewson & Shaw?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Sep 15, 2005, 10% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Dewson & Shaw?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Shaw St between Dewson St and Harbord St (September 2021), found an average of 28 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 34 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 316 m away (30 km/h), 0.3% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Dewson & Shaw?

The nearest Green P car park is 157 Beatrice St (426 m away, 18 spaces, 64% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 840 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 21,490 spaces — 31 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 705 Shaw St (530 m).

How do I get to Dewson & Shaw by transit?

Ossington Station (Line 2) is 758 m away; streetcar routes 506, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 228 m away; bus routes 63, 94, 161, 126 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Dewson & Shaw?

37 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 352 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Wow Wings House (177 m), Casa Tropical Cafe (181 m), The Daily Dumpling Wonton Co (197 m), El Convento Rico Restaurant and Club (200 m) and Pizzaville (200 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 Dewson & Shaw?

The nearest is Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom, 155 Roxton Rd, 437 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Bickford Park Washroom (477 m); Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (643 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 Dewson & Shaw?

16 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,381 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Dewson Street YMCA (271 m, 127 spaces), Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. (284 m, 117 spaces) and Lullaboo Childcare Center (College) (336 m, 149 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Dewson & Shaw?

38 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,901 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 805 College St (256 m, 72 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 677 College St (347 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 333 Harbord St (350 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 89) and 46 Delaware Ave (433 m, 14 units, RentSafeTO score 83). The average RentSafeTO score across the 38 is 84 out of 100; 4 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 Dewson & Shaw?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and three 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 Palmerston-Little Italy page.

What neighbourhood is Dewson & Shaw in?

Dewson & Shaw is in Palmerston-Little Italy (City of Toronto neighbourhood 080). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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