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Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time
Getting here
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk
Transit & cycling
- Streetcar
- 504508501 nearest 202 m
- TTC bus
- 4024729 nearest 396 m
- Express
- 929
- Blue Night
- 304301329
- Nearest stops
- 3 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- Sharrows on Dowling Ave installed 2018; Sharrows on Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge installed 2018
- Bike Share
- Marilyn Bell Park Tennis Court 149 m · 27 docks · 17 stations, 333 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 (8)
- Dr Rita Cox - Kina Minagok Public SchoolEnglish Public · 275 m
- Holy Family Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 510 m
- Parkdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 554 m
- Mary Mother of God SchoolPrivate · 572 m
- Parkdale Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 931 m
- Garden Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.3 km
- and 2 more
- Community centres
- Holy Family Community Centre489 m
- Masaryk - Cowan Community Recreation Centre743 m
- Parkdale Community Recreation Centre948 m
- Lamport Stadium1.3 km
- McCormick Arena1.4 km
- Mary McCormick Recreation Centre1.4 km
- Parks (26)
- Lakeshore Boulevard Parklands175 m
- Close - Springhurst Parkette294 m
- Close Avenue Parkette340 m
- Springhurst Parkette433 m
- Beaty Avenue Parkette474 m
- Spencer - Cowan Parkette600 m
- and 20 more
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch828 m
- Toronto Public Library High Park branch1.4 km
- Places of interest
- Medieval Times Dinner and TournamentPerforming Arts · 1 km
- Queen Elizabeth TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.3 km
- The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 1.5 km
Around the corner
Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node
Restaurants & food
Toronto Public Health inspects 8 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 155 — 2.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Communiticare Health, 49 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2026 with 1 infraction noted.
| Nearest food premises | Distance | Latest DineSafe inspection |
|---|---|---|
| Communiticare Health · 96 Dowling Ave | 49 m | Passed, Sep 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Royal Canadian Legion Branch 344 · 1395 Lake Shore Blvd W | 126 m | Passed, Nov 2024 |
| Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club · 1391 Lake Shore Blvd W | 162 m | Passed, Aug 2024 |
| Bev Can Properties · 117 Dowling Ave | 187 m | Passed, Sep 2026 · 1 infraction |
| Parkdale Pharmacy · 1439 King St W | 230 m | Passed, Aug 2025 |
| The Originals Diner · 160 Springhurst Ave, Dept-S | 231 m | Passed, Nov 2024 |
| Dowling Rest Home · 124 Dowling Ave | 247 m | Passed, Aug 2026 |
| Anthony's No Frills · 1435 King St Wgrocery | 259 m | Passed, Aug 2025 · 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 the automated public toilet at 1275 Lake Shore Blvd W, 156 m away, open around the clock; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 341 m away at Close Avenue Parkette.
- Automated public toilet, 1275 Lake Shore Blvd W
24 hours · accessible156 m - Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 220 Cowan Ave
View centre hours743 m - Budapest Park Washroom · 1575 Lake Shore Blvd W
9 a.m. to 10 p.m.1 km
- Drinking water
- Close Avenue Parkette bottle filling station · 341 m; Beaty Avenue Parkette bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 472 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
Five licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 446 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Queen Victoria Child Care Centre (275 m, 151 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).
- Queen Victoria Child Care Centre · 100 Close Ave
151 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day275 m - Parkdale Early Learning Centre - Cdi - 119 Close Ave. · 119 Close Ave
49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day380 m - Sunflower House · 162 Dunn Ave
44 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day429 m - Holy Family Childcare Centre-Queen Victoria · 141 Close Ave
25 spaces · school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day510 m
Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
Emergency services
The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (1.1 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (2.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.0 km away.
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
Within a kilometre there are 114 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 7,910 rental units, 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection — 20 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 75 Dowling Ave (31 m, 138 units, 7 storeys, built 1989), which scored 93 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 238 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 55 fire-code violations are open across them.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | LTB orders | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 Dowling AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation | 138 | 7 | 1989 | 93 · Jul 2025 | 8 | 31 m |
| 99 Dowling Ave · Metcap Living Management Inc. | 111 | 5 | 1955 | 94 · Jul 2025 | 6 | 101 m |
| 140 Springhurst Ave · Landlord Property & Rental Mgmnt Ic | 20 | 5 | 1959 | 86 · Jul 2025 | 0 | 145 m |
| 115 Dowling Ave · Metcap Living Management Inc | 70 | 9 | 1965 | 99 · Jul 2025 | 3 | 167 m |
| 100 Jameson Ave · Oz Property Management Ltd | 80 | 10 | 1960 | 95 · Jul 2025 | 2 | 180 m |
| 1465 King St W | 48 | 3 | 1917 | 85 · Jul 2025 | 0 | 181 m |
| 110 Jameson Ave | 91 | 7 | 1960 | 86 · Jul 2025 | 1 | 183 m |
| 120 Jameson Ave | 90 | 7 | 1960 | 87 · Jul 2025 | 0 · 2 fire | 190 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
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1275 Lakeshore Blvd. W. (Parks) · Surface | 115 m | 120 * | — |
| 1624 Queen St W · Surface | 638 m | 33 | 71% (Q1 2026) |
| 14 Fuller Ave · Surface | 674 m | 42 | 47% (Q1 2026) |
| 1325 Queen St W · Surface | 751 m | 32 | 94% (Q1 2026) |
| 1575 Lake Shore Blvd. W. (Parks) · Surface | 1.1 km | 193 * | — |
Nearest lots: 88 m away, ≈31 spaces; 134 m away, ≈6 spaces; 144 m away, ≈37 spaces; 173 m away, ≈220 spaces; 186 m away, ≈24 spaces; 191 m away, ≈75 spaces. More EV charging: 45 Abell St (1.4 km, 16 ports); 1051 Queen Street W (1.7 km, 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 — 14-hour, Jun 13, 2026 (a weekend day)
No single direction dominates: each approach carried between 88 and 92 vehicles. Most cyclists arrived from the north (276 of 609). Evening rush dominates here: 21 vehicles in the peak hour from 3:00 p.m., against 15 in the morning peak from 9:15 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.2% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count was taken on a Saturday, so it reflects weekend traffic; the rankings compare it with weekday counts elsewhere. This is a fresh count, taken within the last year.
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
At the school-zone speed sign on Jameson Ave (241 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.1% of the 38,849 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.
School-zone speed sign 241 m
Jameson Ave (northbound), 109 Jameson Ave · 38,849 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
Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.
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 Sep 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.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no 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 Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge?
A quiet local crossing. It ranks #2390 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 1% of the median for a counted intersection.
Where can I park near Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge?
The nearest Green P car park is 1275 Lakeshore Blvd. W. (Parks) (115 m away, 120 spaces). The City's mapping shows 368 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 18,620 spaces — 42 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1224 KING ST W (885 m).
How do I get to Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge by transit?
Streetcar routes 504, 508, 501 stop within 1 km, the nearest 202 m away; bus routes 402, 47, 29, 929 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge?
8 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 155 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Communiticare Health (49 m), Royal Canadian Legion Branch 344 (126 m), Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club (162 m), Bev Can Properties (187 m) and Parkdale Pharmacy (230 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 Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge?
The nearest is the automated public toilet at 1275 Lake Shore Blvd W, 156 m away (open around the clock), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom (743 m); Budapest Park Washroom (1.0 km). 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 Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge?
Five licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 446 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Queen Victoria Child Care Centre (275 m, 151 spaces), Parkdale Early Learning Centre - Cdi - 119 Close Ave. (380 m, 49 spaces) and Sunflower House (429 m, 44 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge?
114 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 7,910 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 75 Dowling Ave (31 m, 138 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 99 Dowling Ave (101 m, 111 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 140 Springhurst Ave (145 m, 20 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 115 Dowling Ave (167 m, 70 units, RentSafeTO score 99). The average RentSafeTO score across the 114 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.
What neighbourhood is Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge in?
Dowling Ave & Dowling Avenue Pedestrian Bridge is in South Parkdale (City of Toronto neighbourhood 085), designated a Neighbourhood Improvement Area. It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks.
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 Jun 13, 2026.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Aug 29, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Around the corner: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health); Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Fire Station Locations, Police Facility Locations, Ambulance Station Locations.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport with the Ontario LTB Order Catalogue and Toronto Fire Services inspection data (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 4 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting here: 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. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Walking distance: City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Parking: 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.
- Coordinates: 43.63485, -79.43786 · centreline node 30121311.