Toronto · intersection · signal 2128

Dufferin St & York University Busway

Toronto, Ontario · Bathurst Manor · Ward 6, York Centre · DuKe Heights BIA

Dufferin St & York University Busway is a major arterial intersection. It sits in Bathurst Manor. It has a multi-use trail, a school within 250 m and an accessible pedestrian signal at the corner. Nearby: 7 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
22,058
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 30, 2016
216 pedestrians · 39 cyclists
Collisions
79
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
24 with an injury · 45 property damage · #1395 of 5,508 · +5 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
1
TTC stop within 100 m
4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Trail
Multi-Use Trail
Bike Share: 19 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 2,760 vehicles an hour, 2.4× the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 102 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. On average 7.9 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 2.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions rose 93%, from 27 in 2016–2020 to 52 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Dufferin St & York University Busway

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
10536107104 nearest 34 m
Express
939
Blue Night
329336
Nearest stops
2 surface stops within 300 m — 4610 Dufferin St
Regional
York Region Transit 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St Stop # 738132 m
Cycling
Multi-Use Trail on Finch Corridor Trl installed 2011; Multi-Use Trail on G Ross Lord Park Trl installed 2001
Bike Share
Dufferin St / Finch Corridor Trail 120 m · 19 docks · 3 stations, 57 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)
  • Bright Start Academy SchoolPrivate · 156 m
  • Wilmington Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 687 m
  • Nygh Outpatient and Community Services Centre/Urban InternationalPrivate · 717 m
  • Charles H Best Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 880 m
  • Adelfiha's Christian AcademyPrivate · 1 km
  • Forest Valley Outdoor Education CentreEnglish Public · 1.3 km
  • and 2 more
Community centres
  • Irving W. Chapley Community Centre1.5 km
Parks (5)
  • Garthdale Parkette770 m
  • G. Ross Lord Park817 m
  • Bayhampton Parkette899 m
  • Robert Hicks Park1.2 km
  • Kennard Parkette1.4 km
Signal
2128, activated 2009 · SA2 · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · bicycle signal

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 47 eating places within a kilometre. The nearest is Bread House, 61 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026 with 3 infractions noted.

Restaurants & cafés3 within 300 m · 47 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 12 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bread House · 4610 Dufferin St Unit-18b61 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions
Goldie's Sandwiches - An Eisenbergs Company · 4580 Dufferin St Unit-100247 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Fred's Bread · 45 Brisbane Rd Unit-14284 mPassed, May 2026 · 2 infractions
Nu Age Fish Inc. · 45 Brisbane Rd Unit-4grocery284 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions
National Restaurant · 1000 Finch Ave W318 mPassed, Jun 2026
Esso On the Run · 4550 Dufferin Stgrocery405 mPassed, Nov 2024
Pizzaiolo · 4700 Dufferin St426 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Rumeli · 4700 Dufferin St Unit-6426 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 3 infractions

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 G. Ross Lord Park Sport Pavillion Washroom, 925 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

  • G. Ross Lord Park Sport Pavillion Washroom · 4801 Dufferin St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    925 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

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 201 spaces; all accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Wilmington Best Child Care Centre (687 m, 171 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km2 centres · 201 spaces
Fee subsidy2 of 2
  • Wilmington Best Child Care Centre · 330 Wilmington Ave
    171 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    687 m
  • Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre · 285 Wilmington Ave
    30 spaces · school age · fee subsidy
    880 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 112 (1.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.1 km away.

FireFire Station 112 · 1.9 km5700 Bathurst St
Policenone within 5 km
AmbulanceEMS Headquarters/EMS 53 Stn/Fire Headquarters · 1.1 km4330 Dufferin St

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

Four registered apartment buildings with 245 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner — well below the median of 22. The nearest is 715 Finch Ave W (530 m, 85 units, 11 storeys, built 1970), which scored 88 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 2 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings4 · 245 units
RentSafeTO score88 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20262 across the 4
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest11 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
715 Finch Ave W · Ranee Management8511197088 · Aug 20242530 m
711 Finch Ave W000564 m
707 Finch Ave W · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc1507196499 · Jul 20260602 m
81 Garthdale Crt103195978 · Aug 20240823 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 lots314 lots · ≈97,930 spaces · 293.8 ha
Within 500 m25 lots · ≈6,420 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 177 m away, ≈565 spaces; 195 m away, ≈644 spaces; 274 m away, ≈188 spaces; 294 m away, ≈395 spaces; 316 m away, ≈725 spaces; 320 m away, ≈200 spaces.

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, Nov 30, 2016

The north leg carries the load — 10,800 southbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the west leg brought 208. Morning rush is the busier period: 3,204 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 2,938 from 2:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 6.2% 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 16,183 vehicles. The count is 10 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2016, 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 north10,800southbound · 21 bikes · 4.4% heavy
From the west208eastbound · 0 bikes · 98.1% heavy
Total vehicles22,058216 pedestrians · 39 cyclists · 6.2% heavy
From the east271westbound · 18 bikes · 96.7% heavy
From the south10,779northbound · 0 bikes · 3.9% heavy
AM peak hour3,204 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour2,938 vehicles from 2:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 30, 2016

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 Dufferin St between Finch Ave W and G Ross Lord Park Trl (173 m away) recorded an average of 45 km/h in its 3-day count in July 2024; 85% of drivers were at or under 62 km/h. That segment carries about 45,800 vehicles a day.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Dufferin St · Finch Ave W – G Ross Lord Park Trl · 173 mJul 2024 · 3 days45,78345 km/h62 km/h69 km/h

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

2023 was the peak year (16 collisions), and 2025 closed with 8. 30% of collisions here involved an injury, above the 15% citywide. 10 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 13% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 5 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 29, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions79#1395 of 5,508
With an injury24#672 of 4,660
Property damage only45
Fail to remain10
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified10
Since January 2026 (outside the window)5
All since 2014105latest Jun 29, 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 11 thefts from vehicles and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.1 a year. 55% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1130street/outdoor (6), commercial premises (5)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Nov 29, 2023. 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 Bathurst Manor.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Dufferin St & York University Busway a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 79 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 Dufferin St & York University Busway?

A major arterial intersection. Its latest count is from Nov 30, 2016, 2.4× the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Dufferin St & York University Busway?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Dufferin St between Finch Ave W and G Ross Lord Park Trl (July 2024), found an average of 45 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 62 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Dufferin St & York University Busway?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 314 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 97,930 spaces — 25 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Dufferin St & York University Busway by transit?

Bus routes 105, 36, 107, 104, 939 within 1 km (nearest stop: 4610 Dufferin St, 34 m); York Region Transit route 105 Dufferin at Dufferin St Stop # 7381.

What restaurants are near Dufferin St & York University Busway?

3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 47 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bread House (61 m), Goldie's Sandwiches - An Eisenbergs Company (247 m), Fred's Bread (284 m), National Restaurant (318 m) and Pizzaiolo (426 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 Dufferin St & York University Busway?

The nearest is G. Ross Lord Park Sport Pavillion Washroom, 4801 Dufferin St, 925 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.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 Dufferin St & York University Busway?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 201 spaces in total; all accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Wilmington Best Child Care Centre (687 m, 171 spaces) and Wilmington Best Schoolage Satellite Centre (880 m, 30 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Dufferin St & York University Busway?

Four RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 245 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 715 Finch Ave W (530 m, 85 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 711 Finch Ave W (564 m), 707 Finch Ave W (602 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 99) and 81 Garthdale Crt (823 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 78). The average RentSafeTO score across the 4 is 88 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 Dufferin St & York University Busway?

Toronto Police place 11 thefts from vehicles 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 Bathurst Manor page.

What neighbourhood is Dufferin St & York University Busway in?

Dufferin St & York University Busway is in Bathurst Manor (City of Toronto neighbourhood 034). It is in Ward 6, York Centre, represented by Councillor James Pasternak. The corner falls inside the DuKe Heights Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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