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East Liberty & Western Battery

East Liberty St & Western Battery Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Fort York-Liberty Village · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York

East Liberty & Western Battery, in Fort York-Liberty Village, in central Toronto, is a mid-volume intersection, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has parks at the corner. Nearby: Exhibition GO 726 m away and 12 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
5,759
vehicles · 8-hour count, Apr 13, 2022
2,697 pedestrians · 367 cyclists
Collisions
69
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
3 with an injury · 46 property damage · #1599 of 5,508 · +3 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
5 streetcar routes · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 66 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 720 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 62% 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 6.4% of vehicle volume, about 8.2× the typical share. That comes with about 6.9 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 2.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. Collisions rose 129%, from 21 in 2016–2020 to 48 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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East Liberty & Western Battery

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

GO Transit
Exhibition GO — Lakeshore West726 m
Streetcar
504508509511501 nearest 312 m
TTC bus
6329 nearest 40 m
Blue Night
304301363307329
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — Strachan Ave at East Liberty St
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
East Liberty St / Western Battery Rd 17 m · 19 docks · 46 stations, 1,079 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 (11)
  • Niagara Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 588 m
  • Discovering Minds Montessori SchoolPrivate · 629 m
  • St Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 921 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 931 m
  • Charles G Fraser Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.1 km
  • City SchoolEnglish Public · 1.2 km
  • and 5 more
Parks (42)
  • Gateway Park43 m
  • Bill Johnston Park212 m
  • South Stanley Park Extension261 m
  • Liberty Village Park268 m
  • Ordnance Park281 m
  • Massey Harris Park295 m
  • and 36 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Fort York branch888 m
Places of interest
  • Exhibition PlaceConvention & Trade Centres · 461 m
  • Enercare CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 466 m
  • Beanfield CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 565 m
  • Coca-Cola Coliseum (formerly Ricoh Coliseum)Sports / Entertainment Venue · 569 m
  • Fort York National Historic SiteMuseum · 584 m
  • BMO FieldSports / Entertainment Venue · 887 m
  • Factory TheatrePerforming Arts · 1 km
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 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 36 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores, and 364 eating places within a kilometre — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Wendy's, 45 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in February 2026.

Restaurants & cafés36 within 300 m · 364 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Wendy's · 19 Western Battery Rd45 mPassed, Feb 2026
Bb.q Chicken · 49 East Liberty St Unit-350 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 1 infraction
Burgers N' Fries Forever · 49 East Liberty St Unit-250 mPassed, Jul 2026
Gong Cha · 49 East Liberty St Unit-150 mPassed, Jul 2026
Starbucks · 14 Strachan Ave71 mPassed, Oct 2024
Forest Hill Farmhouse · 39 East Liberty St None88 mPassed, Jul 2026
Ah-So Sushi · 25 Ordnance St None109 mPassed, Feb 2026
Smoothie Bar/ Altea Active · 25 Ordnance St None109 mPassed, Mar 2025 · 8 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 the automated public toilet at 1 Strachan Ave, 392 m away, open around the clock; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 167 m away at Bill Johnston Park.

  • Automated public toilet, 1 Strachan Ave
    24 hours · accessible
    392 m
  • Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom · 700 Wellington St W
    View outdoor pool hours
    412 m
  • Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom · 890 King St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    434 m
Drinking water
Bill Johnston Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 167 m; Liberty Village Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 260 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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 620 spaces; six accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Liberty Village Child Care Centre (57 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km9 centres · 620 spaces
Fee subsidy6 of 9
  • Network Child Care Services - Liberty Village Child Care Centre · 21 Western Battery Rd
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    57 m
  • Downtown Kids Academy, Inc. · 905 King St W
    50 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    286 m
  • Liberty Kids · 125 Western Battery Rd
    18 spaces · toddler, preschool
    434 m
  • Garrison Creek Community Day Care · 222 Niagara St
    152 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    588 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 331 (917 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.8 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.0 km away.

FireFire Station 331 · 917 m33 Claremont St
Police14 Division · 1.8 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 35 · 1 km265 Manitoba Dr

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

15 registered apartment buildings with 3,551 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, six of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 15 Solidarity Way (34 m, 440 units, 26 storeys, built 2021), which scored 100 out of 100 at its August 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 15 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 59 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings15 · 3,551 units · 6 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202659 across the 15
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest35 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
15 Solidarity Way · Rhapsody Property Management440262021100 · Aug 2024634 m
25 Ordnance St · Bentallgreenoak Residential Services333312021100 · Jul 2025794 m
11 Ordnance St · Bentallgreenoak Residential Service246242021100 · Jul 20252153 m
24 Shaw Stsocial housing2009198987 · Aug 20261513 m
800 Adelaide St Wsocial housing · Homes First Society503198788 · Aug 20260535 m
798 Richmond St W · Akelius Canada Ltd52513197089 · Jul 20257675 m
900 Queen St Wsocial housing · Artscape Non-Profit Housing Inc.223199681 · Jul 20241736 m
100 Lower Ossington Ave · Killam Apartment REIT1798201391 · Aug 20240796 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 lots612 lots · ≈25,520 spaces · 76.6 ha
Within 500 m30 lots · ≈1,600 spaces
Green P (public)25 car parks · about 2,431 spaces
EV charging (City)1051 Queen Street W · 894 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking45 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 48 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
800 Fleet Street · Surface296 m94 *
250 Fort York Blvd. · Surface455 m49 *
1030 King Street West - garage entrance via Shank St. · Garage492 m152 *
803 Richmond St W · Surface600 m4856% (Q1 2026)
34 Hanna Ave · Surface683 m14669% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 54 m away, ≈24 spaces; 110 m away, ≈19 spaces; 186 m away, ≈13 spaces; 263 m away, ≈161 spaces; 318 m away, ≈148 spaces; 320 m away, ≈43 spaces. More EV charging: 10 Palmerston Ave (1 km, 2 ports); 45 Abell St (1 km, 16 ports); 248 Shaw St (1.3 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 — 8-hour, Apr 13, 2022

The east leg carries the load — 2,934 westbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 146. Most cyclists arrived from the east (196 of 367). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 975 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 39% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (699). Heavy vehicles made up 4.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2022, 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 north272southbound · 25 bikes · 3.7% heavy
From the west2,407eastbound · 144 bikes · 3.0% heavy
Total vehicles5,7592,697 pedestrians · 367 cyclists · 4.3% heavy
From the east2,934westbound · 196 bikes · 5.4% heavy
From the south146northbound · 2 bikes · 6.2% heavy
AM peak hour699 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour975 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Apr 13, 2022

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 East Liberty St between Liberty Village Park Trl and Lynn Williams St (387 m away) recorded an average of 34 km/h in its 3-day count in April 2022; 85% of drivers were at or under 42 km/h. That segment carries about 6,500 vehicles a day. Western Battery Rd between Gateway Park Trl and Pirandello St measured slower: 24 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 33 km/h (Mar 2026). The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. 3 speed humps slow traffic on Western Battery Road between East Liberty St and Pirandello St.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Western Battery Rd · Gateway Park Trl – Pirandello St · 166 mMar 2026 · 3 days1,04924 km/h33 km/h37 km/h
East Liberty St · Liberty Village Park Trl – Lynn Williams St · 387 mApr 2022 · 3 days6,52734 km/h42 km/h45 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Western Battery Road · East Liberty St – Pirandello St
    3 speed humps

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

2024 was the peak year (12 collisions), and 2025 closed with 7. 4% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 23 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 4% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 3 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 14, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions69#1599 of 5,508
With an injury3#3519 of 4,660
Property damage only46
Fail to remain23
Involving a pedestrian2#2057 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist1#2487 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist2
With a fatality0
Severity not classified20
Since January 2026 (outside the window)3
All since 201479latest May 14, 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 23 thefts from vehicles and 28 bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 8.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has picked up: 21 in 2023–2025, about 7.0 a year, against 4.3 a year before that. 61% of the vehicle thefts were from apartment-building parking; 57% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle23120apartment parking (14), street/outdoor (8)
Bicycle theft2890apartment parking (16), street/outdoor (7)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 20, 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 Fort York-Liberty Village.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is East Liberty & Western Battery a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 69 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 East Liberty & Western Battery?

A mid-volume intersection. Its latest count is from Apr 13, 2022, 62% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at East Liberty & Western Battery?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on East Liberty St between Liberty Village Park Trl and Lynn Williams St (April 2022), found an average of 34 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 42 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near East Liberty & Western Battery?

The nearest Green P car park is 800 Fleet Street (296 m away, 94 spaces). The City's mapping shows 612 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 25,520 spaces — 30 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1051 Queen Street W (894 m).

How do I get to East Liberty & Western Battery by transit?

Exhibition GO is 726 m away; streetcar routes 504, 508, 509, 511 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 312 m away; bus routes 63, 29 within 1 km (nearest stop: Strachan Ave at East Liberty St, 40 m).

What restaurants are near East Liberty & Western Battery?

36 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 364 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Wendy's (45 m), Bb.q Chicken (50 m), Burgers N' Fries Forever (50 m), Gong Cha (50 m) and Starbucks (71 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 East Liberty & Western Battery?

The nearest is the automated public toilet at 1 Strachan Ave, 392 m away (open around the clock), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom (412 m); Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom (434 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 East Liberty & Western Battery?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 620 spaces in total; 6 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Liberty Village Child Care Centre (57 m, 49 spaces), Downtown Kids Academy, Inc. (286 m, 50 spaces) and Liberty Kids (434 m, 18 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near East Liberty & Western Battery?

15 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,551 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 15 Solidarity Way (34 m, 440 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 25 Ordnance St (94 m, 333 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 11 Ordnance St (153 m, 246 units, RentSafeTO score 100) and 24 Shaw St (513 m, 200 units, RentSafeTO score 87). The average RentSafeTO score across the 15 is 89 out of 100; 1 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 East Liberty & Western Battery?

Toronto Police place 23 thefts from vehicles and 28 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 Fort York-Liberty Village page.

What neighbourhood is East Liberty & Western Battery in?

East Liberty & Western Battery is in Fort York-Liberty Village (City of Toronto neighbourhood 163). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik.

Sources

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