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Traffic and safety
The City's latest turning-movement count, every police-reported collision within 65 m, speeds on these streets
Traffic volume8-hour count · Jul 28, 2016
This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The east leg carries the load — 584 westbound vehicles, or 52% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 231. Most cyclists arrived from the east (49 of 113). Morning rush is the busier period: 178 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 157 from 4:45 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,177 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.
Peak hours: 178 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 157 from 4:45 p.m. (approach figures are vehicles entering from that leg over the whole count — one day's traffic, not an annual average).
Collisions 2016–2025 · within 65 m
2022 was the peak year (4 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 67% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 11% of collisions here. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jul 16, 2026.
The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 9 | |
| With an injury | 0 | |
| Property damage only | 5 | |
| Fail to remain | 6 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 1 | |
| Involving a cyclist | 0 | |
| Severity not classified | 4 | |
| Since January 2026 (outside the window) | 2 | |
| Killed or seriously injured | 0 | |
| All KSI since 2006 | 0 |
A collision counts when its recorded location is within 65 m of the centreline node, intersection-related or not. KSI = killed or seriously injured, the basis of the danger rankings; records can lag a year or more, so the current year is outside the window. How collisions are counted.
How fast traffic moves here
The City's counter on Elmer Ave between Norway Ave and Rhyl Ave (60 m away) recorded an average of 28 km/h in its 3-day count in September 2018; 85% of drivers were at or under 35 km/h. That segment carries about 1,100 vehicles a day. The reading is 8 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Kingston Rd (197 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.2% of the 15,424 vehicles logged in August 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none. 2 speed humps slow traffic on Norway Avenue between Elmer Ave and Woodbine Ave (installed 2003), and 1 more calmed segment ends here.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmer Ave · Norway Ave – Rhyl Ave · 60 m | Sep 2018 · 3 days | 1,077 | 28 km/h | 35 km/h | 39 km/h |
- Speed sign
- Kingston Rd (eastbound), 197 m — 40 km/h zone. Median 27 km/h, 85th percentile 37 km/h; 0.2% at 50 km/h or more. 15,424 vehicles logged in August 2026; runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
- Traffic calming
- Norway Avenue (Elmer Ave – Woodbine Ave): 2 speed humps (installed 2003); Elmer Avenue (Queen St E – Norway Ave): 6 speed humps (installed 2003)
Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; 85% of drivers were at or below the 85th-percentile speed. A reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data. How speeds are read.
Getting there
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and where to park
Transit and cycling
- Streetcar
- 503 501 nearest 254 m · 3 min
- TTC bus
- 92 64 nearest 285 m · 3 min
- Blue Night
- 301 322
- Nearest stops
- 3 surface stops within 300 m
- Cycling
- Sharrows on Elmer Ave installed 2019; Sharrows on Norway Ave installed 2019
- Bike Share
- Heyworth Cres / Kingston Rd 362 m · 4 min · 19 docks · 4 stations, 114 docks within 1 km
Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.
Parking within 2 km
- Green P
- 16 car parks · about 823 spaces
- EV charging
- 166 Woodbine Ave · 748 m · 6 Level 2 ports; also 1981 Queen Street East (760 m), 1856 Queen St E. (807 m)
- Bike parking
- 1 post-and-ring within 300 m
- Other lots
- 9 mapped lots within 500 m, 245 within 2 km — private, commercial or institutional, and often for customers or residents only
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 166 Woodbine Ave · Surface | 778 m | 21 | 46% (Q1 2026) |
| 192 Boardwalk Dr · Surface | 873 m | 24 | 45% (Q1 2026) |
| 85 Lee Ave · Surface | 1 km | 68 | 61% (Q1 2026) |
| 116 Joseph Duggan Rd · Surface | 1 km | 24 | 41% (Q1 2026) |
| 118 Sarah Ashbridge Ave · Surface | 1.1 km | 24 | 40% (Q1 2026) |
Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; check Green P for rates). EV chargers are City-operated only. On-street and underground parking are not included.
Within a walk
What the City's own records put within a walk of this corner — distances are the walk along real streets and paths. Shops, banks, gyms and clinics are in no City dataset, so they are not here.
Food, shops and services
The nearest grocery store is Alex Farm Products, 671 m away; 5 grocery stores sit within a kilometre. No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 56 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Infinity Mart, 476 m away. The nearest pharmacy is Queen East Medical Pharmacy, 690 m away; 4 pharmacies are within a kilometre. No hospital site is within a 2 km walk. Woodgreen Communtiy Centre Epc runs a seniors' active living programme 592 m away.
- Restaurants & cafés
- Infinity Mart · 1930 Queen St E476 m · 6 min
- Poke Eats · 1934 Queen St E483 m · 6 min
- Heal Wellness · 1938 Queen St E491 m · 6 min
- Pizza Nova · 1928 Queen St E495 m · 6 min
- Island Blend · 1940 Queen St E498 m · 6 min
- Grocery
- Alex Farm Products 671 m · 8 min · 5 within 1 km
- Food shops
- Cobs Bread 739 m · 9 min · butcher, bakery or food shop
- Pharmacy
- Queen East Medical Pharmacy 690 m · 8 min · 4 within 1 km
- Child care
- Norway School Age YMCA · 99 spaces, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day362 m · 4 min
- Brightpath Academy - the Beach · 111 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day550 m · 7 min
- Brightpath Academy - the Beach Clubzone · 72 spaces, preschool, kindergarten, school age · $10-a-day565 m · 7 min
- Washrooms
- Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom · hours not listed618 m · 7 min
- Kew Gardens Playground Washroom · 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible · closed — Maintenance/Repairs915 m · 11 min
- Health and care
- Woodgreen Communtiy Centre Epc · seniors' active living centre592 m · 7 min
Food premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023, screened by name and location to leave out the kitchens inside care homes, child care, schools and offices, and carts and stalls; a shop without a recent inspection does not appear. Pharmacies, hospital sites and care homes from the Ontario Ministry of Health's register — a hospital site may be a rehabilitation or specialty hospital without an emergency department; in an emergency call 911. How places are classed.
Parks, schools and places
- Parks (17)
- Jeff Sloan Playground789 m · 9 min
- Love Crescent Parkette825 m · 10 min
- Cassels Avenue Playground903 m · 11 min
- Pantry Park0.9 km · 11 min
- Edgewood Parkette1 km · 12 min
- Community centres
- Beaches Recreation Centre618 m · 7 min
- Fairmount Park Community Centre1.3 km · 16 min
- Schools (10)
- Norway Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 362 m · 4 min
- Kew Beach Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 700 m · 8 min
- Glen Ames Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 732 m · 9 min
- Boardwalk Montessori SchoolPrivate · 753 m · 9 min
- Williamson Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 834 m · 10 min
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Beaches branch926 m · 11 min
- Places of interest
- Kew Gardens ParkNature/ Park · 1.1 km · 13 min
Parks, schools, libraries and places of interest within 1.5 km; child care, washrooms and care homes within 1 km; a hospital site within 2 km. Distances are the walk along real streets and paths. How these are joined.
Not within a walk: a care or retirement home.
The median Toronto intersection scores 48. It counts what can be reached, not how pleasant or safe the walk is.
Our own measure, not a licensed walkability rating: every point comes from a City dataset listed under Sources, and the six parts add up to the score. How the score is built · the full ranking.
Apartment buildings nearby
RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score
26 registered apartment buildings with 1,298 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, six of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 98 Elmer Ave (144 m, 36 units, 4 storeys, built 1955), which scored 92 out of 100 at its June 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 Elmer Ave Toronto Community Housing · TCH | 36 | 4 | 1955 | 92 · Jun 2024 | 144 m |
| 419 Woodbine Ave | 11 | 3 | 1960 | 93 · Nov 2025 | 266 m · 3 min |
| 320 Kingston Rd Toronto Community Housing · TCH | 36 | 3 | 1954 | 95 · Jul 2025 | 325 m · 4 min |
| 191 Kenilworth Ave · Kings College Management Ltd. | 31 | 4 | 1961 | 94 · Jul 2025 | 387 m · 5 min |
| 441 Kingston Rd · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc. | 15 | 3 | 1920 | 89 · Aug 2026 | 475 m · 6 min |
| 485 Kingston Rd · Twelvestone Realty Advisors Inc. | 115 | 9 | 1958 | 88 · Aug 2026 | 539 m · 6 min |
26 registered buildings · 1,298 units · 6 social housing · tallest 9 storeys. The score is the City's RentSafeTO evaluation out of 100; buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units are registered, condominiums and houses are not. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport.
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 two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 1 | 0 | 0 | street/outdoor (1) |
| Bicycle theft | 2 | 0 | 0 | house driveway/garage (2) |
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 The Beaches.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Elmer & Norway (North) a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 Elmer & Norway (North)?
A lightly travelled intersection at the City's last count here, in 2016. Its latest count is from Jul 28, 2016, 12% of today's median for a counted intersection.
Is Elmer & Norway (North) a walkable intersection?
Elmer & Norway (North) scores 39 out of 100 on this site's within-a-walk measure; the city median is 48. It counts what the City's own records put within a walk — food premises, transit, libraries, parks, schools, licensed child care — not shops, banks or clinics, which no City dataset lists. Within a walk: 1 school within 500 m · 1 licensed child care within 500 m; nearest park 0.8 km · 1 community centre within 800 m; library 926 m away · 1 place of interest within 1.5 km. The crossing itself: traffic calming.
How fast do cars go at Elmer & Norway (North)?
The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Elmer Ave between Norway Ave and Rhyl Ave (September 2018), 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 197 m away (40 km/h), 0.2% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in August 2026.
Where can I park near Elmer & Norway (North)?
The nearest Green P car park is 166 Woodbine Ave (778 m away, 21 spaces, 46% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 245 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 9,350 spaces — 9 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 166 Woodbine Ave (748 m).
How do I get to Elmer & Norway (North) by transit?
Streetcar routes 503, 501 stop within 1 km, the nearest 254 m away; bus routes 92, 64 within 1 km.
What restaurants are near Elmer & Norway (North)?
None within 300 m, and 56 within a kilometre, counting the premises Toronto Public Health has inspected since November 2023. The closest are Infinity Mart (476 m), Poke Eats (483 m), Heal Wellness (491 m), Pizza Nova (495 m) and Island Blend (498 m). DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.
Is there a public washroom near Elmer & Norway (North)?
The nearest is Beaches Recreation Centre Washroom, 6 Williamson Rd, 618 m away. Next nearest: Kew Gardens Playground Washroom (915 m); Pantry Park Fieldhouse Washroom (1.0 km).
Is there child care near Elmer & Norway (North)?
Eight licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 700 spaces in total; 3 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Norway School Age YMCA (362 m, 99 spaces), Brightpath Academy - the Beach (550 m, 111 spaces) and Brightpath Academy - the Beach Clubzone (565 m, 72 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Elmer & Norway (North)?
26 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 1,298 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 98 Elmer Ave (144 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 419 Woodbine Ave (266 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 320 Kingston Rd (325 m, 36 units, RentSafeTO score 95) and 191 Kenilworth Ave (387 m, 31 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 26 is 90 out of 100.
How many thefts are reported at Elmer & Norway (North)?
Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the The Beaches page.
What neighbourhood is Elmer & Norway (North) in?
Elmer & Norway (North) is in The Beaches (City of Toronto neighbourhood 063). It is in Ward 19, Beaches-East York, represented by Councillor Brad Bradford.
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 Jul 28, 2016.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Oct 11, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Sep 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary); Traffic Calming Database.
- Within a walk: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health), inspections Nov 2023 – Oct 2026; Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (Ontario) — Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.; City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 19 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting there: 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; 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. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Coordinates: 43.67360, -79.30525 · centreline node 13462691.